_ 246 appITIoNs TO BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1885. 
The following collections have been acquired by purchase; 914 
species of plants from Paraguay, from Balansa; 2275 plants from 
South America, collected by R. Pearce; 400 Mexican plants from 
Kerber ; 488 Mexican plants from Sehafiner 5 ; — species of Cali- 
fornian plants, collected by the Rev. E. L. Greene; 344 plan nts 
from South Africa, being the itasiug of aout and Bolus's 
Herbarium Normale Austro-Africanum; 154 plants from Rubai 
Hills, Mombasa, mote by the Rev. W. E. Taylor; 453 species 
of plants from Pole o Islands, from Humblot; 282 plants from 
Syria, collected by Dr r. G. E. Post; 1162 aoe of Be from 
Arabia, from H. C. Hart, Esq. ; 800 specimen European 
i periaes from ‘Dr. Albert Peter; 100 species of Selim nm, 
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ai Rabeaibree: 100 species of Fone, f from Von Thuemen : 100 
species of Ascomycetous Fungi, from Rehm; 100 species of 
European Mosses, from Rabenhorst. 
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plants, collected by Alb. de Regel; from the Royal Herbarium, 
Leyden, 855 rae of plants from Java, collected by Blume and 
: from F. Duthie, Esq., Director of the Botanical 
Gardens, Sepniectinns ore, India, 350 plants from Kumaon, and 
other parts of Northetk India, collected by Mr. Duthie; from 
Professor Engler, of the University of Kiel, 100 species of Aroidee; 
from R. D. Fitzgerald, Esq., of Sydney, 8 species of Australian 
orchids; and from the Imperial Herbarium, Vienna, 593 Austro- 
Hungarian eee eget ie Dr. A. J. Kerner, Professor of the 
, ey., J, A. sare Ksq., J. Brebner, Esq., W. H 
Beeby, Esq., J. E. Griffith, Esq., Dr. Fraser, R. tte Esq., F. 
J. Hanbury, Esq., J. Rashleigh, Ksq., and H. G. Glasspoole, Esq. 
From F. A. Lees, 
species of Mosses collected in Bedfordshire, by Mr. J. Saunders ; 
2 Liverw: 2 Fant F..T. Mott, ws 25 Alye — Z M. Holmes, 
from W. mith, ai : if sig rea 
ints and drawings of plants has also 
of 174 original drawings of the 
live Settlements made by Christopher Smith, 
