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Inclo-Malayan, &c. species received from Levier, Duthie, 

 Fleischer, &c, lias been arranged for incorporation. Various 

 genera — Phascum, Bruchia, Macro')nitrium, Trematodon, 

 Leucomium, Chiloscyphus, &c. have been in part revised. 

 Small collections from Africa have been determined, and 

 Dusen's Cameroon Mosses revised. 



Algce. — The additions to the Fucoidese have been laid out 

 and incorporated, including those from Roscoff and Barbadoes 

 (coll. Vickers). Work of rearrangement according to De 

 Toni's Sylloge, and of incorporation of additions in the group 

 of the Floridese has been completed in the following families : — 

 Bangiacese, Lemaneacese, Batrachospermese, and in the genera 

 Liagora and Galaxaura. Specimens of Liagora revised and 

 determined by Pilger and Zeh have been rearranged and 

 mounted. Work of rearrangement and incorporation of the 

 Codiacese has been completed in accordance with the mono- 

 graph by A. and E. S. Gepp. 



Fungi. — Progress has been made with the incorporation 

 of the Discomycetes, and all outstanding specimens have been 

 incorporated in the group Uredinese. Numerous British speci- 

 mens collectef! during the year have been determined and added 

 to the collection. 



Lichens. — Progress has been made with the revision and 

 incorporation of the British Lichens, principally in the families 

 Collemacese and Cladonieie. Extra-European specimens from 

 the iShuttleworth Collection and those collected by the 

 "Challenger" Expedition have been incorporated with the 

 general series. 



Mycetozoa. — Collections by Lister and Phillips have been 

 added to the general series. 



Exhibition Series. — Various specimens have been added 

 to the general series in the Public Gallery; the case illustrating 

 water-plants has been revised, and some work has been done 

 preparatory to the rearrangement of the exhibition of Algae. 

 The exhibition of the series of British Lichens has been 

 completed, and progress has been made with the preparation 

 of an exhibition of British Seaw^eeds. Progress has been made 

 with the exhibition of Cryptogams, chiefly in the Ferns, in the 

 Central Hall. 



Catalogues and Cfuides. — Progress has been made with the 

 preparation, printing, and illustration of the continuation of 

 the Flora of Jamaica b}^ Mr. Fawcett and Dr. Rendle, with 

 the preparation of the Catalogue of the Sloane Herbarium by 

 Mr. J. Britten, and with the revision of the first volume of 

 the Catalogue of British Lichens by Miss Annie Lorrain 

 Smith. A Catalogue of the plants collected by Mr. and 

 Mrs. P. A. Talbot in South Nigeria has been prepared for 

 publication, and progress made with its printing ; progress 

 has also been made with the preparation of a Guide to the 

 exhibition of British Lichens. 



