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Pearce, Esq.; 67 species from Devon and Cornwall, presented by 
Briggs, Ksq.; 50 species from Wicklow, presented by Miss 
Kinahan : 230 preparations of cellular plants, by Mr. Joshua; and 
specimens of rare an itical species from the Rev. T, S. L 
A. G. More, Esq., H. G. Glasspoole, Esq., F. C. 8. Roper, Esgq., 
A. Bennett, Esq., Rev. R. P. Murray, F. ‘Lownsond, Egq., G. C. 
8q 
The rare and critical British plants contributed by botanists 
have ie incorporated with the British Herbarium; and also the 
plants of Samuel Dale’s erbaic whic. was hae eeuked to 
Holmes Esq . Wm: Phillips, Esq,, H. G. Glasspoole, 
Est. W. H. Pearson, ae R. V. Tellam, Esq., C. B. Plowright, 
and K. George, Esq. The extensive collection of British 
eet formed by the late Rev. H. H. Wood, has been purchased 
from his representatives, and 215 specimens of Hepatice from 
Carrington and Pearson 
ome progress has been made in the preparation of a fuller and 
more exact catalogue of the contents of the Sloane Herbarium 
than has agit existed ; and the plants ipaecaed by Cunningham 
in China n 1680, and distributed through several volumes of the 
Sloane Bolan have been catalo sata 
A 
acta has been made during the year, and the whole has been 
arranged and mounted in one series. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
A Synopsis of the Bacteria ~ ag Fungi. By W. B. Grove, B.A. 
London : o & Windus. 1884. 
Is is an excellent little are which will prove to be of great 
use to Wor kers at the chaotie group of which it treats. Mr. Grove 
has translated the section devoted to the vibes by Dr. Winter in 
the new edition of Rabenh orst’s ‘ Kryptogamen- Flora,’ and, besides 
this useful service, he gives us his own views on classification, and 
a resumé of the iapouad of others. It may be safely admitted that 
few groups of plants present greater difficulties to the systematist 
than this, owing to the incompleteness of the life-histories; but 
