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and Thomson, Schlagintweit, Strachey, and Winterbottom, and 

 others have been laid in, and these species have been named and 

 arranged according to the " Flora of British India." A large 

 number of Cape and Australian Gompositce have also been 

 added. The Monopetalce and ApetalcB of Whymper's plants 

 from the Andes were named, and the same groups in Hille- 

 brand's Sandwich Island plants were compared and incor- 

 porated. 



Mr. A. B. Rendle has incorporated with the Herbarium the 

 Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms contained in the following 

 collections : — Anatolia by Bornmuller ; Syria, by Post ; Sin- 

 gapore, by Ridley ; Penang, by Curtis ; India and Malaya, by 

 King ; Hong Kong, by Lamont ; Japan, by Maximowicz ; 

 Australia, by von Mueller ; Madagascar, by Scott Elliot ; Natal, 

 by Clarke ; Canada, by Macoun ; Mexico and Texas, by Pringle ; 

 British Guiana, by Jenman ; Fernando do Noronha, by Ridley ; 

 and the Sandwich Islands, by Hillebrand. He has selected 

 and incorporated the Petaloid Monocotyledons and Grasses of 

 the Welwitsch Herbarium ; and has determined the species of 

 Monocotyledons brought from the Andes by Mr. E. Whymper. 

 In the course of his work Mr. Rendle has revised and named 

 up several genera of Orchidaeecv, Liliacece, Cyperacem, and 

 Gramineoi, and the Indian and Japanese Coniferce. 



Mr. A. Gepp has arranged and incorporated several published 

 sets, and various collections of mosses, in all 1.3,831 specimens, 

 with the arranged Herbarium. He has begun to classify the 

 various series of Heijaticca with the view of incorporation. He 

 has determined the species of Mosses, Hepatics, and Lichens 

 brought from the Andes by Mr. E. Whymper, and similar col- 

 lections from South Australia by Mr. Tepper, and from New 

 Zealand, by Mr Vaughan Jennings. Mr. Gepp has selected and 

 arranged the collection of British mosses, with their illustrative 

 drawings and descriptions, for exhibition in thePublic Gallery. 



Mr. G. Murray has been employed for the greater part of 

 the year on the re-arrangement of the general collection of 

 Fungi, according to Saccardo's " Sylloge Fungorum." This has 

 involved the remounting of a large proportion of the speci- 

 mens dealt with, and the incorporation of many others, in 

 all 19,943. The following groups have been completed : — 

 Uredinece, Phy corny cetes, Myxomycetes, Hyj^homycetes, 

 SphcBTopsideoi, Tuheracecv, and Pyrenomycetes, while the 

 Discomycetes have been nearly completed. The Fungi collected 

 by Mr. E. Whymper on the Andes have been determined and 

 described. Several groups of Algcn have been critically revised 

 and named, and a number of additional specimens have been 

 incorporated. Collections from Australia and the Indian 

 Ocean have been named, and new species from Britain, the 

 West Indies, and the Indian Ocean have been described. 



The principal additions to the Herbarium during the year 

 have been the acquisition of the collections formed by the late 

 Dr. R. McCormick, r.n., consisting of plants from Spitzerbegen, 

 collected in the expedition to the Arctic Regions, under Cap- 

 tain 



