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tended the rearrangement of the Public Gallery, and has 

 commenced a series of illustrations of plant adaptations, the 

 cases showing Insectivorous Plants and the dispersal of fruits 

 and seeds having been completed with the aid of Miss Frances 

 Whitting. At the request of the Fishery Board for Scotland, 

 he made an examination of the plant plankton of the coast 

 of Scotland. He was granted eleven days special leave of 

 absence by the Trustees, and in all spent six weeks at sea in 

 pursuit of this investigation. He obtained numerous speci- 

 mens, recorded a new mode of reproduction in marine diatoms, 

 and established the fact that the minute Crustacea (which are 

 to a large extent the food of fishes) themselves feed on 

 diatoms, as well as other points of scientific and economic 

 interest. He has prepared a memoir on the subject, printed 

 (but not yet issued) in the Proceedings of the Royal Society 

 of Edinburgh, and a special account for the Annual Report 

 of the Fishery Board. 



Progress has been made in the illustration of the British 

 Flora by specimens and drawings. Mr. Worthington Smith 

 and Miss A. L. Smith have added largely to the Basidiomy- 

 cetes and Hyphomycetes respectively. 



The collection of slides of fossil plants and the very 

 extensive collection of Diatoms are being permanently 

 labelled, the latter collection being now rather more than 

 half done. 



The late Freeman C. S. Roper, of Eastbourne, for many 

 years an authority on Diatomaceae, has greatly enriched the 

 collections by the bequest of his cabinet of Diatoms, consist- 

 ing of 3,580 slides, 2 type slides and 41 herbarium specimens. 

 Mr. Roper's collection had been long known as one of the best 

 private cabinets, since it contains much material prepared 

 under his special direction. It has proved to be of great 

 value even as an aidition to the magnificent series of slides 

 already in the Department. 



The Linnean Society has presented 3,705 specimens of 

 Fungi and Lichens (from Weddell's Herbarium) and the gift 

 has made it possible to complete published sets by E. Fries, 

 Mougeot and Nestler, Stenhammar, Th. M. Fries, Hepp, 

 Anzi and Malbranche. 



The other additions to the collections by presentation have 

 consisted of 841 Malayan Phanerogams and Cryptogams, 345 

 woods and 1 fruit by H. N. Ridley, Esq., Director of Gardens 

 and Forests, Singapore ; 453 Indian Plants by Dr. George 

 King, c.i.E., F.R.s., Superintendent of the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta ; 352 Kashmir and 100 Pamir plants by J. F, 

 Duthie, Esq., Director of the Botanic Garden, Saharunpur ; 

 84 Cryptogams and 1 fruit by the Honourable William 

 Fawcett, Director of Public Gardens and Plantations, Jamaica; 

 3 plants by J. H. Hart, Esq., Superintendent Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Trinidad ; 135 South African plants by the Govern- 

 ment of Cape Colony; 74 African Fungi, and 3 fruiting 



specimens 



