DEPAKTMENT OF BOTANY. 15'5 



The Kiitzing collection of Diatoms has been cleaned and 

 mounted. 



The collections have been enriched during the year by 

 several especially noteworthy additions. 



Mr. Arthur Lister had added to his previous gifts the 

 farther one of 832 microscope slides of Mycetozoa and 397 

 herbarium specimens, as well as 112 exhibition specimens and 

 3G coloured drawings by Miss Gulielma Lister to illustrate 

 the British representatives of this group. The latter series 

 have been placed in a table case in the gallery. 



A collection of nearly 3,000 drawings of British Fungi by 

 Mr. Edwin Wheeler, of great botanical value, has been 

 generously presented by Messrs. Edwin and Henry Wheeler. 

 The drawings are of particular importance as accurate records 

 of the colour characters of the larger Fungi, which are so 

 difficult to preserve suitably in a herbarium. 



A present of much value and interest, consisting of 146 

 microscope slides, illustrating his researches on Archegoniate 

 plants, has been made by Professor D. H. Campbell of the 

 Leland Stanford University, California. 



The other additions to the collections by presentation have 

 consisted of 94 plants from Kolguev Island, by A. Trevor 

 Battye, Esq. ; 12 specimens of tropical fruits and palm foli- 

 age, and 2 species of Gordyceps, by H. N. Ridley, Esq. ; 4 

 species of cultivated orchids, by Miss Woolward ; 213 speci- 

 mens of East African plants, by F. J. Jackson, Esq. ; 748 In- 

 dian plants and specimens of aerial roots of Sunderbund 

 plants, by Dr. King, Botanic Garden, Calcutta ; 246 speci- 

 mens of East African plants, by Dr. Donaldson Smith ; 4 

 specimens of cultivated orchids, by Messrs Veitch ; 739 plants 

 from Kashmir, by J. F. Duthie, Esq. ; 89 North American 

 plants, by A. Davidson, Esq. ; 25 plants from Great Salvage 

 Island, and 11 from Great Piton, by W. R. Ogilvie Grant, 

 Esq. ; 41 plants from West Tropical Africa, by Captain 

 Lugard ; 4 plants from Ceylon, by Dr. Trimen ; 101 plants 

 from North America, by Professor Robinson ; 101 plants 

 from North America, by Professor Macoun ; 36 cryptogams 

 from British Guiana, and specimens of Urari poison ingre- 

 dients, by J. J. Quelch, Esq. ; 185 plants from North California, 

 by Professor E. L. Greene ; 16 specimens of Malvaceae from 

 South Africa, by E. E. Galpin, Esq. ; 23 plants from the Pamirs, 

 by the Rev. J. Gerard ; 42 plants from Australia, by Spencer 

 Moore, Esq. ; 3 specimens of cultivated Orchids, by James 

 O'Brien, Esq.; 59 North American Lichens, by Professor 

 Farlow; 29 Cryptogams from Ceylon, by E. E. Green, Esq. ; 11 

 American, and 13 Japanese Characese, by Dr. T. t\ Allen ; 48 

 Algse from the Cape of Good Hope, by Miss Newdigate; 63Alg£e 

 from the Cape, by W. Tyson, Esq. ; 17 Algse from the Cape, 

 by the late Professor Schmitz ; 15 Algse from South Austra- 

 lia, by Baron von Mueller ; 30 Calif ornian Algae and 6 photo- 



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