REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM. 181 
pe macally arranged, and inserted in their places in the General 
m:—Plants from Tropical Africa, collected and named by 
Dr. Schweinfurth ; from the Island of Rodriguez, collected by Dr. 
I. B. Balfour ; from China, by the Rev. James Lamont and F. B. 
by Schiede and Fendler from she Bi Reed ; 2H nee Tropicat 
sen and Lin 
Two very yeu e callections of pants have been acquired by the 
Trustees during t e study set of Robert Brown’s 
great Herbarium of Mintedioe ciate and the second set of the plants 
collected in Tropical Africa by the late Dr. Welwitse 
Mr. Brown’s Herbarium was the ax selge of the late J. J. penne 
gated keeper of the Botanical Department of the Museum. 
pn. has been presented to the Museum by Mr. Bennett’s widow, 
made in the separation of the stud 
Dr. Welwitsch, by his will, hee i his executors to offer the 
study set of his Afriean plants to the Trustees, at the price of two 
pounds ten shillings per hundred. The executors were stopped carry- 
ing out the provisions of the will through the action of the King of 
Portugal, and a bill was filed in Chancery claiming the whole collec- 
tion as the property of the Crown of Portugal. After a lengthened 
and expensive litigation, the case was terminated by a compromise, 
which secured to the Trustees the next best set after the study set, 
with copies of the original notes and descriptions, at the cost only of 
Separation and Gate ription. The work of separating and transcribing 
1s being diligently pattie, si ee important series of plants is 
tae available to men of scie 
Th 
Moss He Ree of James o Hikion. which contains the types 
of the species op ghia by him in his ‘‘ Fasc. Pl. Crypt. Britann.,” 
been acquired from his daughter. 
Two ssp collections of drawings of erse have become the 
property of the Trustees during the ste The one is of great critical 
work on English Fungi. It me me n presented by the Rev. M. J. 
ith 
very imperfectly np each in ae ria. e two ppllensahn. y 
e large series of drawings by Mr. ae G. Smith, acquired in 1875, 
rated into ie seri 
The “ollowing are the ee i additions to the collections of the 
“Scab ent during the year 1875 
