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Botany. Undetermined material has been lent for study and 

 determination as follows : — African specimens of the family 

 Euphorbiacese to the Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 

 connection with the preparation of the Flora of Tropical 

 Africa ; African Ebenaceae to Mr. W. P. Hiern, F.R.S. ; Asiatic 

 Crassulacese to M. Raymond Hamet, Paris ; African Leguminosse 

 to Mr. S. T. Dunn, Kew ; specimens of Xyris to Dr. G. Malme, 

 Stockholm ; of Characese to Mr, H. Groves and of Mycetozoato 

 Miss G. Lister. 



In connection with work done in the Department specimens 

 have been generously lent by the Government of Jamaica, and 

 the Directors of the Royal Gardens, Kew, of the Herbarium of 

 the Paris Museum, of the Botanical Museum, Ziirich, of the 

 Royal Botanic Museum, Munich, and of the Botanical 

 Department of the Roj^al Natural History Museum, Stockholm. 



III. — Departmental Library. 



1. Arrangement. — A new press has been fitted in the 

 window alcove in the Library to relieve the presses allotted to 

 periodicals in progress, which are at present much overcrowded. 

 The accessions to the collection of plates of flowering plants 

 and ferns have been mounted and incorporated, and the re- 

 arrangement of the plates of ferns has been completed. A 

 number of autograph letters have been added to the collection. 



2. Cataloguing and Pressmarhing. — The usual routine 

 work of registering, stamping, cataloguing and pressmarking 

 has been carried out ; and Departmental work in connection 

 with the General Catalogue of Books has been continued. 



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

 been, by donation, 255 volumes, 961 pamphlets ; by purchase 

 187 volumes, 1 pamphlet — in all, 442 volumes, 962 pamphlets. 

 These include 2(3 periodicals in 119 parts, presented, and 

 89 periodicals in 705 parts, purchased — in all, 115 periodicals 

 in 824 parts. 



The following is a list of the principal donors : — F, M. 

 Bailey, C.M.G., F.L.S. ; R. T. Baker, F.L.S. ; Societe Royale de 

 Botanique de Belgique ; Director, Agricultural Research Insti- 

 tute, Pusa, Bengal ; Rev. E. Blatter, S.J. ; Rev. E. N. Bloomfield, 

 M.A. ; T. S. Brandegee, B.S. ; Directeur, Institut Botanique 

 Leo Errera, Bruxelles ; Directeur, Jardin botanique de I'Etat, 

 Bruxelles ; Secretaire de TEtat Independant du Congo, 

 Bruxelles ; Dept. de I'Agriculture aux Indes Neerlandaises, 

 Buitenzorg ; Cardiff Naturalists' Society ; Dr. William 

 Carruthers, F.R.S. ; Director, Royal Botanic -Gardens, Pera- 

 deniya, Cevlon ; Mrs. Agnes Chase ; Miller Christy, F.L.S. ; 

 L. Cockayne, Ph.D., F.R.S. ; E. Collinder, Esq. ; Prof. H. H. 

 Dixon, Sc.D., F.R.S. ; H. N. Dixon, M.A., F.L.S. ; J. F. Duthie, 

 B.A., F.L.S.; Miss Alice Eastwood; the Regius Keeper, Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Edinburgh ; A. H. Evans, M.A. ; Prof. A. J. 

 Ewart, D.Sc, Ph.D., F.L.S. ; Dr. Emil Hassler : Board of 



