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Miers, _ E.R. 8., used when sarge on the numerous botanical 
the trustees, and became their varus in. 1879. Sixty-eight 
works, many of them voluminous and expensive illustrated pu ubli- 
cations, were presented by Mr. Miers, who desired that the books 
and plants should remain associated. 
While continuous work in the Herbarium has not been possible, 
many small collections have been incorporated during the year, 
especially of plants belonging to the Natural Orders Ster og 
Reseducea, Crucifere, and Gentianacee. e plants o elsea 
Gardens have been mounted and incorporated with the Herbarium. 
In the course of work the following Natural Orders have been 
0 -arranged : — Capparidee, Malvacea, Rubiacea, 
Orchidea, Musci, i? g@, and Fungi 
her n added to ie Herbarium during the year a 
valuable collection of plants from the pia um bg ey ‘ee 
consisting of 422 species, formed and presented by Dr. J. y 
Aitchison ; 125 species of plants from Fee Bieta by orbes: 
725 species of plants from Astrakan ; 151 species of plants from 
Songoria, collected by Schrenk; an interesting collection from 
Natal, by the V. Gr eenstock ; - small collection from the 
Sierra Nevada, Columbia, made by F. A. Simmons; a collection 
from Guatemala, made by Keck, a ae the Argentine PAE AN 
by Hieronymus; 984 plants of Northern Africa, collected 
doger ; 468 species from the South of Spain, collected by Huter, 
Porta, and Rigo; 448 species from Italy, collected by Strobl; and 
200 species from. Sicily, collected by Lojacona. To the collection 
of cryptogamic plants have been sided 144 species of Ferns from 
Madagascar, collected by the Rev. G. Shaw; 50 species from 
Trinidad, collected by Fendler, and 150 species from Italy, in con- 
tinuation of the collections of the Cryptogamic Society; a small 
Series of Hepatica, in iatce aE from Rabenhorst, and 100 
mosses from Fiedler; 100 species of European Lichens, by Raben- 
horst; and 150 from Egypt, collected by Larbalestier ; 800 species 
of European prin collected and named by Le Joli; a pee eol- 
ze. 
To the British Herbarium there have been added during the 
year a large collection of the plants of Oxfordshire, formed by t the 
late Alfred French , and consisting of 2482 specimens; and the 
set alte Herbarium of Lichens, formed by Mr. W. Joshua, con- 
tain 976 species (a small proportion being European), repre- 
sanied by 1500 labelled specimens. In | additio n to these, there 
found b Larbalestie 
To the iatalogisal collection there have been added 120 
