98 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Africa ; R. A. Diiminer, Esq., 160 specimens from Uganda ; Capt. 

 C. Tristram, 38 specimens from Himalayas ; Director, Botanic 

 Gardens, Singapore, 33 specimens from Malay Peninsula ; Capt. 

 W. H. iShakespear, 36 specimens from Arabia ; Linnean Society, 

 1G3 Australian plants ; Dr. F. Steward, 525 specimens, and J. E. C. 

 Maryon, Esq., 109 specimens, from West Australia ; Dr. R, R. 

 Gates, 135 specimens of cultivated Oenothera ; E. A. Bowles, Esq., 

 "62 specimens, W. F. Ledger, Esq., 8 specimens, and Royal 

 Horticultural Society, 14 specimens of cultivated plants. P. A. 

 Saccardo " Mycotheca Veneta," being 1,600 dried Fungi, trans- 

 ferred from the Department of Printed Books ; J. Groves, Esq., 

 7 European Characese ; Torquay Natural History Society, 33 

 Muscinese from the East Indies and North America ; Dr. (J. W. 

 Andrews, 13 Cryptogams from Christmas Island ; Mrs. Cara Shinn, 

 11 species of Fungi from Nyasaland. 



(2) By Purchase. 

 Botanical Exchange Club, 570 specimens of British Flowering 

 plants ; Miss B. Corfe, 12 coloured drawings of British plants ; 

 R. A. DLimnier, 222 Flowering plants and 164 Cryptogams from 

 Uganda and British East Africa ; Miss A. Pegler, 50 Cryptogams 

 from Kentani, South Africa ; continuations of published sets of 

 European plants, from H. Dahlstedt, 50 specimens, and from 

 H. Sudre, LOO specimens, and of North American Algse by Collins, 

 Holden and Setchell, 50 specimens. 



(3) By Exchange of Duplicates. 

 The Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, 18 

 species of BrimuLa from i'unnan, W. China ; Director, South 

 African Museum, Cape Town, 75 South African Ericaceae and 

 Leguminosse ; (Jurator, Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand, 

 33 New Zealand plants ; Prince Bonaparte, 97 Mexican plants ; 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 200 North 

 American Grasses ; United States National Museum, Washington, 

 D.C., U.S.A., 1,142 North American plants, 263 Tropical African 

 plants (Col. Theo, Roosevelt Expedition, 1909-10), and 163 

 Argentine and North American plants ; Director, Botanic Gardens, 

 New York, U.S.A., 703 Jamaica plants ; Director, Museu Goeldi, 

 Para, Brazil, 972 Brazilian plants. 



VI. — Students and Visitors. 

 The number of visits to the Department for consultation and 

 research during the year was 3,303. 



VII. — Demonstrations. 

 A demonstration on the collections was given to members, of the 

 Birkbeck Natural History Society. 



A. B. Rendle. 



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