154 ACCOUNTS, ETC , OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Woodruffe Peacock, Mrs. Marindin, Rev. E. D. Heathcote, 

 Rer. C. H. Binstead, Miss A. H. Fisher and W. H. Shrubsole, 

 Esq. 



The following additions have been made by exchange of 

 duplicates : — 928 Phanerogams and Cryptogams from the 

 Cameroons and the Argentine Republic, from the Director of 

 the Royal Botanical Museum, Berlin ; 597 Minnesota plants 

 from Professor Conway Macmillan, and specimens in spirit of 

 two parasites for exhibition from Professor Penzig. 



The second (concluding) portion of the Stephani collection 

 of Hepaticae has been acquired by purchase. It consists of 

 6,920 specimens, and is in every respect a most satisfactory 

 addition to the Herbarium. 



Two small Herbaria of Algce of much value were also 

 purchased, viz., that of the late T. H. BufFham, consisting of 

 1,330 specimens, chiefly from British coasts, and that of the 

 late Bracebridge Wilson, containing 1,485 Victoria specimens. 

 Both collections were the fruit of careful and assiduous work 

 during many years. 



The following specimens have also been acquired by purr- 

 chase : — 



1,334 Phanerogams and Cryptogams, from " the Sequoia 

 region," by Hansen ; 1,254 Phanerogams and Cryptogams, 

 from North America, by Marcus E. Jones ; 529 Phanero- 

 gams and Cryptogams, from Madagascar, by ])r. Forsyth 

 Major ; 340 Chinese plants, by Father Hugh ; 100 Lombok 

 plants, by Everett ; 239 Armenian plants, by Sintenis ; 

 100 Polish plants, by Wocoszlzak ; 276 French Congo 

 plants, by Bates ; 249 Hawaiian plants, by Heller ; 100 

 plants from Greece, by Heldreich ; 108 Bornean plants, by 

 Haviland ; 225 Mexican plants, by Pringle ; 280 Mexican 

 plants and 22 fruits, by Palmer ; 79 Yucatan plants, 377 

 Orinoco plants, by Rusby ; 442 Persian plants, by Born- 

 miiller ; 644 Cryptogams, by Beattie ; 200 Swiss Cryptogams, 

 by Wartmann and Winter ; 50 Swiss Cryptogams by 

 Wartmann and Schenk ; 185 Labrador Mosses, by Wag- 

 horne ; 206 Labrador and Newfoundland Lichens, by Wag- 

 horne ; 48 Florida Algfe, by Curtiss ; 50 North American 

 Algse. by Collins, Holden and Setchell ; 100 Algas, by Hauck 

 and Richter ; 25 Characese, by Migula, Sydow and Wahl- 

 stedt ; 350 Fungi, by Sydow ; 163 Mecklenburg Fungi, by 

 Fiedler; 200 Scandinavian Fungi, Romell ; 1,000 Fungi, by 

 Ellis and Everhart ; 25 Parasitic Fungi, by Briosi and 

 Cavara ; 50 Lombarily Fungi, by Cavara ; 50 Russian Fungi, 

 by Jaczewski, Komarov and Tranzschel ; and 100 Fungi, by 

 Krieger. 



The following additions have been made by purchase to 

 the British Herbarium : — 



50 Plants (Willows and Hieracia), by Linton ; 25 Marine 

 Alsfse. bv Holmes ; and 240 Lichens, by Johnson. 



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