856 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1899. 
By Grorce Murray, F.R.S. 
Tue additions to we" collections ae presentation have consisted 
ralia and New Guinea, from F. M 
ail 
plants from Tropical Africa, from Lord Delamere; 1239 plants 
Africa, from Major Wolley Dod; 7 Orchids from Sir 
Trevor Sees ; specimens of Schimmelia* from olmes; 
188 plants from Arabia, Prov. Oman, from Surg. Lieut.-Col. Dr. 
A. §. G. Jayakar; 15 plants from California and Oregon, from 
H. EK. iy 71 phanerogams and 6 cryptogams from Falkland 
slan 
&e., and 2 cryptogams from the Caroline Islands, by F. W. Christian ; 
imens of T’wmboa from Dr. William Newton; 60 phanerogams and 
1 cryptogam from Soudan, from Major R. H. Penton j fie mpegs 
plants, ooe asl — from Jamaica, from W. Fawcett; 100 phan 
rogams and 62 cryptogams from West Indies, by the West Tectian 
Blayney Percival ; specim en of Centaurea from Portugal, from 
Rev. E. Armitage; 93 plants from Porto Rico, from D an ; 
19 Orchids, 2 specimens of cultivated Junipers and Podocarpus 
from Messrs. Veiteh ; 4 ve Bag from J. Sparkes; 7 Orchids from 
Messrs. Sander; 12 Marine Alge from Cape Agulhas, by Miss 
Emily Thwaites ; ; 23 Alga and 7 Ferns from Falkland Islands, by 
Rupert Vallentin; 153 — preparations of Diatoms from 
St. Vincent, West Indies, by Edmund Grove; a collection of Phyto- 
plankton from the Atlantic, by Capt. W. H. Milner ; 22 Marine 
Algz from Swatow, China, by E. B. Howell; 5 of hag ay from 
Transkii, by Miss Alice Pegler; 6 Freshwater Algw f rom nited 
States of Columbia, wy Miss ete a Fonnegra; Diatomaceous 
Earth from rare ae y W. S. Dun; a collection of ae no 
from the Nor th Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, by W. L. Brown 
a collection of oo ee from the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, 
North Pacific, &c., by Capt. G. K. Wright, R.N.R.; 154 erypto- 
gams from Samoa, by Mie. "Spicer ; ; SI gh Bre ee "from Mount 
Kenya, by H. J. Mackinder; the moss herbarium of the late Charles 
{* This plant, described by Mr. Holmes in Pharm, Journ. xii. 53, was 
subsequently identified (J.c. 205) with Amyris balsamifera. fea Journ. Bor.] 
