RICHARD MANLIFFE BARRINGTON 367 
welcome and stimulating everywhere, and brought him a host of 
friends. His death leaves a gap in the ranks of British field 
naturalists which cannot be filled. 
R. Luoyp PRAEGER. 
For the use of the pec ces fas portrait we are indebted to 
the editors of the Irish Naturalis 
REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH 
MUSEUM, 1914. 
By A. B. Renpte, D.Sce., F.R.S. 
ACQUISITIONS. 
(1) By Donation. 
Additions to the British Herbarium have been received from 
the following donors:—The Council of the South London Botani- 
cal Institute, seeds of 9 species, mainly British ; A. Bennett, 4 
phanerogams ; J. E. Cooper, 9 species of alien plants ; J. Gaskill, 
a small collection of lichens, mostly British; Rev. H. G. Jameson, 
285 microscope-preparations of hepatice; Miss G. Lister, 12 
2 Reon J. H. Little, 44 phanerogams; Mrs. A. McCutcheon, 
British) and a hepa 
he oe aiadioos have been made to the General 
pei: 
Bavepe: oP rol. I. Douin, 2 mosses and ia: oct from France; 
Mrs. A. McCutcheon, 3 eee phe eel H. Stuart Thompson, 
46 phanerogams from Department Var, Fra 
Asia.—The Regius Keeper, Ro yal Botanis ‘Gaxion, Baibars, 
531 phanerogams collected in Western China by E. E. Maire, and 
1408 phanerogams and 33 eryp ge ge collected in Yunnan, 
Western ae by G. Forrest; H. N. Dixon, 16 hepatice, mostly 
from India; H. C. Robinson, 91 ihaiercilcbis g and 3 ferns from 
Bakcitor, 17 orchids from Gunong Mengkuang, and 62 phanero- 
wae os 7 oy from Gunong Kerbau. 
e Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, 
698 + platite ec soled | in South-west Africa by Prof. H. H. W. Pear 
son, Miss over, and others; Lieut. G. St. J. Orde Bicede, 
91 phanerogams ne 5 vascular cryptogams from Mt. Kenya, 
British East Africa; R. H. Bunting, 100 phanerogams, 1 aig 
and 6 tubes of treated a alge from Sierra Leone; Mrs. M. E 
Prescott-Decie, 184 phanerogams and 7 cryptogams from British 
East Africa; Capt. H. G. Lynes, 145 phanerogams, 3 vascular 
cryptogams, ‘and 11 tubes of diatoms, collected in the Nile and 
Red Sea Province; Mrs. A. McCutcheon, 39 saisalk cryptogams 
