216 ■ ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



British East Africa; R. H. Bunting, Esq, 100 Phanerogams, 

 1 Fern, and 6 tubes of Freshwater Algae from Sierra Leone; 

 Mrs. M. E. Prescott-Decie, 184 Phanerogam.^ and 7 Cryptogams 

 from British East Africa ; Capt. H. G. Lynes, 145 Phanerogams 

 3 Vascular Cryptogams, and 11 tubes of Diatoms, collected in 

 the Nile and" Red Sea Province; Mrs. A. McCutcheon, 39 

 Vascular Cryptogams collected in Madeira by the Misses 

 D'Arcy ; Dr. R. Marloth, 4 South African plants ; R. E. Massey, 

 Esq., 24 plants from the Sudan; the Hon. Walter Rothschild, 

 F.R.S., 110 plants from South West, and 12 from Central, 

 Algeria ; T. A. Sprague, Esq., and J. Hutchinson, Esq., 3 plants 

 from Madeira ; Mr. and Mrs. P. Amaury Talbot, 141 Phanero- 

 gams from Degema, Southern Nigeria ; Capt. N. R. Wilkinson, 

 42 species of Vascular Cryptogams, collected in Madeira by the 

 late N. H. Mason; Miss E, S. Youngs, specimens and drawing 

 of Sta2^elia fiavirostris from Orange River Colony. 



Australasia. 



W. M. Cole, Esq., a small collection of New Zealand Crypto- 

 gams ; M'ss Mary Delprat, 38 Australian plants ; Miss J. Hey- 

 wood, 18 Lichens and 1 Moss from New Zealand; Dr. A. B. 

 Rendle, 90 Piianerogams, a spike of Xanthorrho3a quadrangu- 

 lata, and a ball of fibres of Posidonia australis from South 

 Australia, 24 Phanerogams from Victoria, 14 Phanerogams from 

 New South Wales, and 51 Cryptogams, and 3 tubes of Fresh- 

 water Algje from South Australia, Victoria, and New Zealand ; 

 O. Sargent, Esq., 8 species of Stylidium from West Australia; 

 Dr. F. Stoward, 26 Phanerogams from West Australia; and 

 single specimens from H. N. Dixon, Esq., and R. E. Turner, Esq. 



Oceania. 



The Committee and Subscribers of the Wollaston Expedition 

 to Dutch New Guinea, 1,714 Phanerogams, 189 Vascular 

 Cryptogams and 1 Hepatic, collected by C. B. Kloss. 



America. 



The Colonial Secretary, through the Director of Agricul- 

 ture, Jamaica, 9 Phanerogams from Jamaica; the Councils of the 

 British Association and the Zoological Society of London, 17 

 Phanerogams and 72 Cryptogams, mostly collected in South 

 Georgia by P. Stammwitz during the Barrett-Hamilton Expedi- 

 tion ; the Hon. Cecil Baring, 29 Phanerogams and 6 Ferns from 

 Brazil ; A. Bennett, Esq., 23 Waterweeds, mostly American ; 

 Miss A. Calvert, 408 Phanerogams and 87 Cryptogams from 

 Centi-al Chile ; Mrs. A. McCutcheon, 9 species of West Indian 

 fruits ; H. Edwards, Esq., specimens of Attalea fruits from 

 Colombia; H. O. Forbes, Esq., 100 Phanerogams and 14 Crypto- 

 gams from Peru ; L. R. Wheeler, Esq., 87 Phanerogams raid 

 1 Fern from Antigua, West Indies; S. J. Wigley, Esq., 25 photo- 

 graphs of Canadian plants; and single specimens from A. H. 

 Maude, Esq., H. Clinton Baker, Esq., Miss E. F. Noel, and the 

 Superintendent of the Department of Agriculture of Barbados. 



