154 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



West, 1,475 sheets o£ original drawings o£ British and Foreign 

 Freshwater Algse and 30 packets of original drawings illustrating 

 his scientific papers. 



(2) By Purchase. 

 British Isles. 



The Botanical Exchange Club (through W. G. Barton), 176 

 Phanerogams ; D. McArdle, Esq., 152 Mosses and 302 Hepatics. 



Europe. 



C. Mereschkovsky, 235 Lichens from Switzerland, including 

 Fasc. I-IV, Nos. 1-129, Lichenes Ticinenses ; F. Petrak, 375 

 specimens Fungi from Bohemia and Moravia. 



Africa. 



J. Gossweiler, 1,272 Phanerogams and 483 Cryptogams from 

 Portuguese Congo and Angola. 



America. 



Dr. E. Hassler, 1,047 Phanerogams and 47 Cryptogams from 

 Paraguay ; T. 0. Weigel, 121 Phanerogams and 79 Cryptogams 

 from Bolivia, collected by Dr. 0. Buchtien. 



Australasia. 



Mrs. Hodges, 200 Ferns from New Zealand and South Sea 

 Islands, collected by Surgeon W. Fasken. 



(3) By Exchange of Duplicates. 



Prof. F. J. Lewis, University of Alberta, Edmonton South, 

 Canada, 100 specimens of Canadian plants ; Director, Universitetets 

 Bot. Museum, Copenhagen, 612 Danish plants and 52 Mexican 

 plants ; Director, Museu Goeldi, Para, Brazil, 229 specimens from 

 Para ; Curator, Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass., 200 specimens 

 Cent. II, III, PL Exsicc. Grayanse, 597 specimens, including 50 

 Cryptogams from Newfoundland, and 48 specimens from Labrador ; 

 Dr. Merrill, Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippine Islands, 400 

 specimens ; Dr. N. L, Britton, Bot. Gardens, New York, 285 West 

 Indian plants ; Chief, Division of Botany, Pretoria, 27 South 

 African plants and 32 South African species of Aloe ; Director, 

 Bot. Gardens, Singapore, 153 Malayan plants ; Director, Botanic 

 Gardens, Sydney, 87 Australian plants ; Curator, U.S. National 

 Museum, Washington, 161 specimens from New Mexico, Surinam, 

 &c., 468 specimens from Mexico, and 2^& Cryptogams ; Director, 

 Botanisches Museum, Zurich, 531 South African plants, and 6 

 European plants. 



VI. — Students and Visitors. 



The number of visits to the Department for consultation and 

 research was 3,170. 



