96 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Department of Botany. 

 I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



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During the past year 14,125 specimens have been incorporated 

 ith the Herbarium. This number includes 13,475 Flowering 

 Plants, and 650 Cryptogams. 



Flowering Plants. — Additions acquired during the year by 

 donation, purchase and exchange have been mounted and incorporated. 

 Progress has been made with the determination, selection and 

 incorporation of the early Australian collections, and outstanding 

 specimens have been determined and incorporated in various families, 

 especially Geraniacese, Rutacese, Leguminosse, Passifloraceae, Cactacese, 

 Rubiacese, Compositfe, Lauracese, and Amaryllidaceae. 



Work of revision and re-arrangement has been done in various 

 families, especially Capparidace?e, Araliacese, Gompositse, and 

 Urticacere, and genera, especially Vigna, Rhynchosia, EujjJiorhia and 

 Croton (Tropical African species) and Anchusa and Fuhnonaria 

 (European species). 



The British H(n-barium has been placed in the same gallery as 

 the Europeaii Herbarium, and the space thus gained in the Great 

 Herbarium has been allotted to the General Collection, where room 

 for expansion is greatly needed. 



Ferns and Mosses. — The selection and incorporation of outstanding 

 extra-European material of Ferns and Mosses (including Liverworts) 

 has been continued and several genera have been revised. 



Algce. — Work of incorporation has been done in several families. 



Fungi and Lichens. — Work of revision and incorporation has 

 been done in the Microfungi, mainly British, and in various genera 

 of other groups of Fungi. Progress has been made with the 

 revision and incorporation of the British Lichens. 



ExTiihition Series. — Progress has been made with the exhibition 

 of the Cellular Cryptogams in the Index Museum and with the 

 exhibition of British Seaweeds. Some time has been devoted to 

 experiments in preparing specimens, including seaweeds, for exhibi- 

 tion in their natural colours. 



Catalogues and Guides. — Progress has been made with the 

 preparation of the Flora of Jamaica (Vols. iv. and v.) by Mr. W. 

 Fawcett and Dr. Rendle ; and with the revision of the first volume 

 of the Monograph of British Lichens and the preparation of a guide 

 to the exhibition of British Lichens by Miss Annie Lorrain Smith. 



II. — Investigation. 



Collections have been determined wholly or in part from the 

 following localities and collectors : Southern Nigeria (Talbot), 

 Cameroons (Bates), Angola (Gossweiler), Uganda (Diimmer), 

 British East Africa (Buchanan), Rhodesia and Transvaal (Rogers), 

 West Australia (Steward, Maryon), New Caledonia (Compton), and 

 various smaller collections from different localities. 



