212 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Dunn ; 53 specimens of Orobanche to the Director, Botanic 

 Garden, Prague ; 50 specimens of Annona to Mr. W. E, Safford, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. ; 147 

 specimens of Orassulacese to M. Raymond Hamet ; 46 speci- 

 mens of Bidens to Prof. J. M. Coulter, University of Chicago: 

 36 specimens of Thesium and 11 Thymelteaceai from South 

 Africa to the Director, Royal Gardens, Kew ; and 20 specimens 

 of Mycetozoa to Miss G. Lister. 



III. — Departmental Library. 



1. Arrangement, Cataloguing, and Pressmarking. — The 

 registering, stamping, and cataloguing of additions to the 

 library and other routine work has been carried out. Depart- 

 mental assistance in connection with the Catalogue of 

 the Library published by the Trustees has been continued. 

 Additions to the Plate and Autograph Collections have been 

 mounted and incorporated. Four presses have been placed 

 in the New Herbarium, and a selection of books on European 

 botany has been transferred to them. Sowerby's drawings 

 for the " English Botany," which were formerly kept in 

 herbarium cabinets, have been accommodated in a new window- 

 press in the Library. 



2. Accessions. — The additions during the year have been, 

 by donation, 90 volumes, 199 pamphlets ; by purchase, 

 103 volumes — in all, 193 volumes and 199 pamphlets. These 

 numbers include 20 periodicals in 296 parts, presented, and 

 61 periodicals in 442 parts, purchased — in all 81 periodicals in 

 738 parts. 



The following is a list of the principal donors : — Oakes Ames, 

 A.M., F.L.S. ; M. Perrier de la Bathie ; Dr. G. E.G. BeauvLsage ; 

 The Minister for the Colonies, Belgium ; Royal Botanical 

 Society, Belgium ; Director, Botanic Gardens, Berlin ; Georg 

 Bitter, Esq. ; Rev. E. Blatter, S.J. ; Dr. F. C. E. B^rgesen ; 

 G. S. Boulger, F.L.S. ; T. S. Brandegee, B.S. ; Director, 

 Botanical Office, Victoria, British Columbia ; J. Britten, F.L.S. ; 

 Director, Botanic Gardens, Brussels ; Dept. of Agriculture of 

 the Dutch East Indies, Buitenzorg ; Director, Botanical Survey 

 of India, Calcutta ; Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta : 

 Trustees, Bolus Herbarium & Library, Cape Town ; J. Cash, 

 Esq. ; Director of Agriculture, Ceylon ; Miller Christy, F.L.S. ; 

 Crown Agents for the Colonies ; G. C. Crick, F.G.S. ; C. Cross- 

 land, F.L.S. ; Prof. H. H. Dixon, D.Sc. ; Regius Keeper, Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Edinburgh ; Prof. A. J. Ewart, D.Sc, Ph.D. ; 

 W. Fawcett, B.Sc. ; Curator, Dept. of Botany, "Field Museum, 

 Chicago ; Dr. Robert E. Fries ; M. A. Guillaumin ; Dr. Hans 

 Hallier; M. Raymond Hamet ; Prof . J. W. Harshberger ; 

 Dr. Bunzo Hayata ; R. Selb}^ Hole, F.L.S.; the late Dr. J. 

 Huber ; Prof. T. Johnson, D.Sc. ; Col. H. H. Johnston, C.B. : 

 Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ; Frau A. Koorders- 

 Schumacher; Miss C. E. Barter, F.L.S. ; Prof. Henri Lecomte ; 

 Director, Rijks Herbarium, Leiden ; C. G. Lloyd, Esq. ; Linnean 



