REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1902 58 
cates :—138 phanerogams and 5 cryptogams ag various omeranel 
from Pr ms Hans Schinz; 10 phanerogams and 6 ecryp pone 
mayer m Sardinia, from Prof, Ugolino Martelli: 100 Kry 
game Pisa hay from the K.K. Naturhist. Hofmuseum of — 
Among the additions acquired by purchase, special mention 
must be made of the herbarium of hepatics purdhaseds from Mr. W. 
H. Pearson, consisting of about 9000 specimens. As being the 
collection upon which is base od Mr. Pearson’s recently completed 
‘ Hepatic of the British Isles,’ it is of the greatest importance to 
British botanists; and it is a most welcome addition to the pre- 
the material elaborated 2 Mr. Pearson for his papers on the 
hepatics of New South Wales, Tasmania, Canada, Madagascar, and 
me Africa; and also numerous camera-lucida sketches and MS. 
Otis following have also been acquired by purchase :—Herb. 
Normale : fascicles xlii. and xliii., by Sri ineitnst mie 
om 
“Angola, by Joh eg faa gs Flora E hear Carniotios, centuries 
1 and 2, by Dentin set of Eur ropean cereals, 218 specimens, by 
John Percival; Flora Polonica Exsiccata, fasciclé i ix., by E. Wolo- 
ee 
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Tends ; 100 spe cimens from Vancouver Island (inelnding 8 
cryptogams s), by C. O. Rosendahl & Carl J. Brand; 240 specimens, 
Flora Bulgarica, by V. Stribrny ; 395 Hie a ae and 59 crypto- 
gams from Gu oast, America, by 5S. M. Tracy; 993 phanero- 
gams and 36 cryptogams from Tropical Hast Abin: by T. Kiass- 
ner; fascicles i.-iv. of specimens from Transcaspia, by Sintenis; 
544 specimens, Plante Australie Occidentalis, by EH. Pritzel ; 270 
specimens from West x otra by L. Webster; Graminez Exsic- 
cate, fasc. vil.-x., Cyperaces, fasc. = & iv., 201 specimens, by A. 
Smith ; 100 Bohemian mosses, by Bauer ; 100 mosses of the Indian 
Archipelago, by Fleischer ; 325 mosses from Chile and gies 
by Dusén ; 125 micro-fungi, by Vestergren ; 75 No:th American 
cetes, om Sy dow; 50 Ascomyosts, by Rehm; 30 alge from the 
Bosphorus, as Richards; and 40 microscope- -slides and 23 herbarium 
specimens of British micro- -fungi, by Miss A. L. Smith. 
