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been laid out, mounted, and incorporated in the general 

 collection, amounts to about 3,000 specimens. 



Mr. Blackman has been engaged during the past year in 

 superintending the collections of Fungi, and has paid special 

 attention to the genera G easier and Liicoperdon. He has 

 also completed his work on the Coccosphceraceoi from the 

 Plankton collections obtained during the expedition of 

 Mr. Murray and himself to the West Indies. He has also 

 been engaged in arranging and directing the work of 

 Mr. Horrell in the botanical part of the Index Museum, 

 and under his superintendence the Dicotyledons have been 

 almost finished, and great progress has been made with the 

 Monocotyledons. The series of large diagrams, the work of 

 Miss M. O. Mitchell, which are exhibited in the Index 

 Museum, has also been continued under his direction. 



The Keeper of the Department and Miss Frances G. 

 Whitting have completed a study of the PeridiniacecB of 

 the Atlantic from collections received from Captain W. 

 Haultain Milner and others. 



Messrs. Murray and Blackman were absent on special leave 

 from loth to 26th November, engaged in deep-sea tow-netting 

 in the North Atlantic, with the special object of exploring 

 the intermediate depths of the ocean. They have obtained 

 a large series of organisms, which, after they have been 

 worked out by experts, will be deposited permanently in the 

 Museum. 



The additions to the collections by presentation have 

 consisted of : — Types of 3 species of Asariim, by W. W. Ashe, 

 Esq. ; 180 Malayan plants, by H. N.Ridley Esq. ; 20 Australian 

 Plants, by Miss Jessie Hussey ; 301 Plants from Novaya 

 Zemlya and Waigatz, by Col. H. W. Feilden ; 28 Plants from 

 Machakos, by Dr. S. L. Hinde ; 70 Plants from Tibet, by A. 

 H. Savage Landor, Esq.; 21 Orchids from Messrs. Veitch 

 and Co. ; 92 Siamese Plants, by S. S. Flower, Esq. ; 591 

 Rhodesian Plants, by Dr. F. Rand ; 524 Flowering Plants 

 and 35 Cryptogams, by J. F. Duthie, Esq. ; 627 Cape Plants, 

 by Capt. Wolley Dod ; 346 Plants and 14 Fruits from 

 Christmas Island, by Sir John Murray; 192 West African 

 Plants, by J. W. H. iMigeod, Esq. ; 169 Flowering Plants from 

 Asia Minor, by Capt. F. R. Maunsell ; 88 European Flowering 

 Plants, by Mrs. E. G. Clink ; 4 Orchids, by Messrs. Sander & 

 Co. ; 4 Orchids, by Sir Trevor Lawrence ; and specimens by 

 Clement Reid, Esq., W. Fawcett, Esq., Miss E. Elliott, John 

 Weathers, Esq., J. Sparkes, Esq., T. Christy, Esq., H. Bolus, 

 Esq , Messrs. JBuli and Co., and Messrs. Low and Co. 



A collection of Phy to -plankton from the Atlantic, by 

 Captain C. S. Tindall ; 44 Marine Algae from Mauritius and 

 one Flowering Plant, by J. Cosmo Melvill, Esq.; 2 Marine 

 Algfie from Gi-and Canary, by Miss Anna Yickers ; 176 



