204 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



II. — Investigation. 



Collections have been determined, either wholly or in part, 

 from the following localities and collectors : — Gazaland (Swyn- 

 nerton), Rhodesia (Monro), Nigeria (Talbot, Kitson), British 

 North Borneo (Gibbs) ; the British species of the genera 

 Hieracium and Ruhus have been investigated and determined 

 by specialists in the two genera. Rev. Aiigustin Ley and Rev. 

 W. Moyle Rogers, and research work has been carried on in the 

 genus Grotalaria (by Mr. Baker, who, in connection with this 

 work has also studied the collections at Berlin and Brussels), 

 on the tribe Hameliese and the genus Cane^phova (by Mr. 

 Wernham), and on various genera of Algse (by Mr. and Mrs. 

 Gepp). The undetermined material from Tropical Africa of the 

 orders Euphorbiacese, Santalacece and Loranthacese has been lent 

 to the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and determined 

 by members of his staff in connection v/ith the preparation 

 of the "Flora of Tropical Africa"; specimens of the genus 

 Imijatiens from China have been lent to and determined by 

 Sir J. D. Hooker, similarly specimens of the order Leguminosse 

 by Mr. S. T. Dunn, and of the Alga] genus Liagora by Dr. Pilger, 

 of the Royal Botanic Museum, Berlin. Work of investigation 

 has been continued on various genera and species of the British 

 Flora, especially the genera Ruhus, Fumaria, Uhnus, Quercus 

 and others, by various workers at British Botany, and work of 

 investigation by numerous British and foreign Botanists has 

 been carried out in many different orders and genera. In 

 connection with work done in the Department specimens have 

 been lent by the Government of Jamaica, the Royal Botanic 

 Museum, Berlin, the Royal Botanic Museum, Munich, the 

 Botanic Museum, Zurich, and Dr. G. Nichols, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, U.S.A. 



III. — Departmental Library . 



1. Arrange^nent. — A number of works which are out of 

 date and seldom used have been removed from their former 

 places to some supplementary shelves, thus making room for 

 books in general use. Progress has been made with the work 

 of mounting and incorporation in the plate collections of 

 flowering plants and ferns and the rearrangement of those of 

 the latter ; 5,900 plates have been mounted during the year. A 

 number of autograph letters have been incorporated with the 

 collection. 



2. Cataloguing and. Press-'marking. — The accessions have 

 been registered, stamped, catalogued and press-marked, and 

 the necessary alterations in press-marking of volumes removed 

 to supplementary shelves have been made. 



3. Accessions. — The additions during the past year have 

 been, by donation, 51 volumes, 114 pamphlets; by purchase 

 189 volumes, 3 pamphlets — in all, 240 volumes, 117 pamphlets 



