150 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Palestine (White), Sinai (Stammwitz), Mesopotamia (Whitehead), 

 Annam (Kloss), New Guinea (White), Cameroons and Nigeria 

 (Bates), Rhodesia (Eyles), Belgian Congo (Vanderyst and others), 

 Brazil (Moss) and New Caledonia (Compton). 



Work ()£ investigation has been done in the genera Acacia, 

 AllopJii/llus, Baphia, Domheya, Erodivm, Vellozia, and in other genera 

 of various families especially Euphorbiacese, Rubiaeefje, Compositse, 

 Acanthacese, and in genera from the Balkan Peninsula, Also in 

 various families and genera of Mosses, Red Seaweeds, Fungi and 

 Lichens. Various fungi of economic importance have been investi- 

 gated. Numerous small collections have been determined for 

 students and collectors. 



In connection with the work done in the Department specimens 

 have been generously lent by the Government of Jamaica, the 

 Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, of the Herbarium of the Museum 

 d' Histoir(^ Naturelle, Paris, of the Jardin Botanique de I'Etat, 

 Brussels, and of the Naturhistoriska Riks-Museum at Stockholm, the 

 Regius Keeper of Botany, Edinburgh, and the Curator of the Bristol 

 Museum. 



Material has been lent for determination and critical study as 

 follows : — 263 specimens of British Lichens to Mr. Thomas Hebden ; 

 15 specimens of Potamof/eton from various localities to Mr. Arthur 

 Bennett ; 10 species of BapJiia from tropical Africa to Mr. L. V. 

 Lester-Garland ; 118 specimens of Qvercus from Malaya to Mr. J. 

 S. Gamble ; and 47 Mosses from Uganda and Rhodesia to Mr. H. 

 N. Dixon. 



Ill . — Departmental Librari/. 



1. Arrangement, Catalogvhig, and Pressmarking. The register- 

 ing, stamping, and cataloguing of additions to the library and other 

 routine work has been carried out. Departmental assistance in con- 

 nection with the Official Catalogue of the Library has been continued. 

 A new press has been placed in the Cryptogamic Herbarium. 



2. Accessio)n<. 18 volumes and 23 pamphlets were acquired by 

 donation and 56 volumes and 3 pamphlets by purchase, in all 74 

 volumes and 26 pamj)hlets ; th(^se numbers include 14 volumes of 

 periodicals in parts presented and 38 volumes of periodicals in parts 

 purchased, in all 52 volumes of periodicals. The following is a list 

 of the principal donors : — 



Kolonial Institut, Amsterdam. Director, Roval Botanic Gardens, 



Prof. L. H. Bailey. Calcutta. " 



R. T. Baker, Es(j. Director, Gray Herbarium, ( -am- 



Lady Barkly. bridge, Mass. 



Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S. Mademoiselle A. Camus, 



Royal Botanical Society, Bel- Director, Field Museum, Chicago, 



gium. Director, Botanical Museum, 



Dr. Georg Bitter. University of Copenhagen. 



James Britten, Esq. Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. 



