154 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Arthur Bennett, Esq. ; 46 Rubi, named by Bloxam, and pre- 

 sented by the Linnean Society ; 80 plants from Dorset, pre- 

 sented by J. C. Mansel Pleydell Esq. ; specimens of Trache- 

 liuon cceruleum from Guernsey presented by J. C Melvill, 

 Esq, ; two species of Asplenium, presented by Edward 

 Bennett, Esq. ; a specimen of an aposporous Lady Fern, pre- 

 sented by C. T. Druery, Esq. ; 21 Shropshire Mosses, presented 

 by R. de G. Benson, Esq. ; and 28 species of Algae from the 

 Clyde Basin, presented by George Brebner, Esq. 



The following collections have been acquired by purchase : 

 — 25 specimens of British Rubi from the Rev. E. F. Linton ; 

 690 plants of Nyasaland from Mr. Buchanan ; 99 species of 

 Cape of Good Hope plants from Schlechter ; 40 species of 

 Assyrian plants from Post ; 530 species of plants from Mexico, 

 collected by Pringle ; 452 plants from Bolivia, collected by 

 Bang ; 12 fruits from Mexico, collected by Howorth ; 

 299 plants from Swan River, Australia, collected by 

 Brewer ; 75 species of Canadian Mosses and 100 species of 

 Canadian Lichens from Mr. Macoun ; 150 species of Mosses 

 from North America, collected by Renauld and Cardot ; 150 

 species of Mosses and Hepaticse from the Cameroons, col- 

 lected by Dusen ; 29 specimens of Sphagna from Labrador, 

 collected by Rev. A. C. Waghorne ; 200 specimens of Hepa- 

 ticsB from France, by Husnot ; 165 slides of British Algse 

 from BufFham ; 50 slides of British Marine Algae from 

 Brebner ; 25 specimens of British Algae from Holmes ; 100 

 slides of Fungi from Tempere and Dutertre ; 100 Fungi from 

 Saxony, by Krieger ; 50 specimens of Economic Fungi, by 

 Seymour and Earle ; 100 specimens of Rabenhorst's European 

 Fungi ; 250 species of Fungi from Sydow ; 25 species of para- 

 sitic Fungi from Briosi ; 50 species of Fungi from Lombardy, 

 by Cavara ; and 29 cellular plants from Bolivia, collected by 

 Rusby. 



Specimens of Seeds from the interglacial beds at Rotthus, 

 were presented by Professor Nehring, and Fruits of Nipa, 

 from the Tertiary strata at Sheppey, by Mr. Shrubsole. 



The following works have been presented to the Library of 

 the Department : — Contributions from the Botanical Labora- 

 tory of the University of Pennsylvania, vol. i, Nos. 1, 2, by 

 Mr. J. W. Harshberger ; Scott Elliot, Flora of Dumfries- 

 shire, Part II., by the Author ; Watt, Dictionary of the Econo- 

 mic Products of India, vol. vi., and Hooker, Flora of British 

 India, by the Secretary of State for India ; Fourth Annual 

 Report of Missouri Botanic Gardens, by W. Trelease, Esq. 

 Contributions to the Queensland Flora, 3-6, and Economic 

 Botany, by the Under Secretary for Agriculture ; J. H. Burk- 

 hill, Flora of Gloucestershire, by the Author ; Britten and 

 Boulger, Biographical Index of British Botanists, by the 

 Authors ; Krok and Almquist, Svensk Flora, by the Rev. 

 E. F. Gepp ; S. T. Dunn, Flora of South-West Surrey, by the 



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