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petaloiis Plants, and has incorporated with the General Her- 

 barium the plants belonging to these Orders from the collec- 

 tions of Hance, Miers, and Shuttleworth, and specimens from 

 other sources. The Orders principally dealt with have been 

 EhenacecB, Sapotaceoi, Myrsinece, Styracce, Oleacece, Cam- 

 Ijanulaceoi, and Gesneracece ; he has also made large additions 

 to the following, and some progress has been made in their 

 rearrangement : Scvoi^hulcunacece , Lahiatce, Convolvulacece, 

 Cajyrifoliacece, and CyrtandraceoG. The Indian and Austra- 

 lian Compositce have been revised in accordance with the 

 Floras of these countries, and numerous additions incor- 

 porated. The Mono'petaUe and Apetalce collected by Henry 

 and Pratt in China, by Curtis in Penang, and by Macoun 

 in Canada, as well as several smaller collections, have been 

 laid out. Considerable progress has been made in the sort- 

 ing and arranging of Monopetalous Plants preparatory to 

 incorporation. 



Mr. Britten has also superintended the arrangement of the 

 collection of drawings and autographs. 



Mr. A. B. Rendle has incorporated in the General Her- 

 barium the Gymnosperms and Monocotyledons collected by 

 Schweinfurth in Arabia Felix, by Prain, Duthie, Clarke, and 

 Beddome in India, by Maries in Gwalior, by Ridley in Penang, 

 Pahang, and Singapore, by Curtis in Penang, by Faber, Henry, 

 Pratt, and Hance in China, by Mueller and Fitzgerald in Aus- 

 tralia, by Pringle in Mexico, by Triana in New Granada, and 

 by Morong in Paraguay. He has added to the Herbarium a 

 number of cultivated specimens of Orchids from Messrs. 

 Veitch and others. He has revised and rearranged several 

 genera of OrchidecB, Cyperacoi, and Orainineoi, and the speci- 

 mens, the fruits and seeds, and the plates, of a large section 

 of Palms. 



Mr. Rendle has classified the whole of the drawings by 

 Schleiden. He has completed the exhibited series of Gamo- 

 petalfE in the Public Gallery, and has made considerable pro- 

 gress in the preparations for the introductory exhibitions in 

 the Hall. 



Mr. Antony Gepp has been principally occupied with incor- 

 porating the various collections of Hepaticcn in the General 

 Herbarium. He has revised and determined these plants in 

 the Herbaria of Wilson and Shuttleworth, and added them 

 to the arranged Herbarium, together with numerous speci- 

 mens from Lindberg, Hampe, Gottsche, Rabenhorst, Carroll, 

 Austin, Pearson, and others. He has incorporated many 

 critical species which have been added to the British Flora 

 during recent years. 



The series of British Mosses for exhibition has been com- 

 pleted, and considerable progress has been made with the 



selection, 



