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descriptions of 115 species new to science. He has also com- 

 pleted the account of Mr. Andrews' Christmas Island plants 

 as regards the Apetalous group of Dicotyledons, the 

 Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms, and has described 

 several new species ; has worked out Mr. Schlechter's 

 collection of South African grasses, including description of 

 new species, also a small collection of fruits, &c., from the 

 Caroline Islands by Mr. F. W. Christian, and, in part. Dr. 

 Rand's Rhodesian collections, with description of a few 

 novelties. He has also completed his revision of the genus 

 Najas, and arranged the species according to his monograph, 

 and has revised and re -arranged the genus Xyris, working 

 specially at the earlier species, and those from Australia and 

 North America ; the results with descriptions of novelties 

 have been published in the Journal of Botany. Some time 

 has been devoted to an enumeration of the Chinese grasses at 

 Kew and the British Museum, and in connection therewith 

 the Asiatic material in the herbarium of a number of genera, 

 chiefly of Andropogonese has been worked up and arranged. 

 Several South African genera of Graminese and Cyperacese 

 have been revised and re-arranged in accordance with recently 

 published parts of the Flora Capensis. Some work has been 

 done on the Orchids, a number of cultivated specimens 

 having been obtained by correspondence and incorporated ; 

 several novelties have been described from Queensland 

 (Mr. Sparkes) and South Africa (Dr. Rand). In conjunction 

 with Mr. W. West a new British fresh water Alga has been 

 described. The Monocotyledons, Gymnosperms, and Apetalous 

 Dicotyledons of various collections have been selected, laid 

 out and incorporated. Saturday afternoon demonstrations 

 have been given to members of the North London Natural 

 History Society, the Sutton Guild, and to students of the 

 Birkbeck Institution. 



During the year Mr. Moore has been busily occupied in 

 incorporating Compositse into the Herbarium. In the course 

 of this work the Australian, New Zealand, and the North, 

 Tropical, and South African bundles have been disposed of, 

 and the American, so far as concerns the tribes Vernoniaceas, 

 Eupatoriacese, Asteroidese, and Inuloidese. The remaining 

 tribes are now in hand, and will soon be finished, thus 

 bringing the collections, so far as Compositse are conceined, 

 thoroughly up to date. The labour involved has been con- 

 siderable, as it has necessitated the examination and laying 

 out of the contents of large private herbaria presented to or 

 purchased by the Trustees. The chief of these are Auers- 

 wald's, Hance's, Miers', and Shuttleworth's, the two last 

 especially rich in American species, and above all, in species 

 native to temperate South America, regions hitherto not well 

 represented at the Museum. The result has been the addition 

 of several genera and a large number of new and rare species 

 to the Herbarium. 



