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14 cryptogams from Nyika Plateau, from Miss M. Henderson : 
35 specimens of grasses from China and 67 specimens from Liberia, 
from the Director, Royal Gardens, Kew; 8 specimens from Dr. (. 
H. Ostenfeld; 861 phanerogams and 2 calcareous alge from India, 
from Major Prain; 90 phanerogams and 16 cr togams from New 
from Wei-hai-wei, China, from Dr. P. H. Boyden ; 
marine alge from Sydney, New South Wales, from J. H. Maiden ; 
Century 1 (edition 1) of Klotzsch’s Herbarium Vivum Mycologicum 
i i ‘ ll; 
glossum simplex, from Prof. F. O. Bower; 84 vascular eryptogams 
from British Kast Africa, from R. Meinertzhagen; 25 ferns of 
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The following additions have been made to the British Herbarium 
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by presentation :—27 specimens from C. E. on; 54 f 
e; v. E. inton; 8 from Arthur Bennett; 82 
fro hall; 297 from C. E. Britton; 19 f 
m Rey. E. §. Mars . Bri 
H. J. Riddelsdell; 5 photographs of “ Witches’ Broom” from J. 
Saunders; 18 new or rare hepaties of Scotland from 8. M. Mac- 
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Norfolk Island, from J. H. Maiden; 147 specimens from South 
The principal purchases made during the year were :—A large 
series of plants, comprising 5036 phanerogams and 211 vascular 
ptogams, collected by Dr. Hassler in Paraguay between the 
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he A r _Faurie ; 2075 phanerogams and 66 
from Central China, by Father Hugh; 120 phanerogams and 35 
cryptogams from California, by A. A. Heller; 1179 phanerogams 
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and 3 cryptogams from New Mexico, by O. B. Metcalfe; 400 
specimens from Japan, by Takeda; 224 specimens from Servia, by 
Oscar Bierbach ; 288 phanerogams and 13 cryptogams from Isla. 
