If8» ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



^ Mr. James Britten has worked out, in accordance with 

 recent monographs, the Tropical African plants of the Orders 

 ConvolvulacecG, Scrophularinece, Solanacece, Lahiatce and 

 VerhenacecG, and has entirely re-arranged the Orders Convol- 

 vulacece and Lahiatce. He has named and incorporated the 

 plants of these and other Orders with the general collection. 

 The Monopetalce of Welwitsch, Clarke, Beddome, Miers, 

 Shuttleworth and others have been laid in, and numerous 

 additions have been made to the Co'ini-yositoe, more especially 

 the Australian species, and to the Ericaceoe. A large number 

 of additions to the British Herbarium have been arranged for 

 incorporation. He has devoted considerable time to the 

 superintendence of the Library Catalogue, and to the various 

 matters arising in connection therewith. He has re-arranged 

 numerous genera in the collection of prints and drawings. 

 He has identified the plants of Welwitsch's " Apontamentos," 

 and has named the Monopetalce of Mr. Trevor-Battye's col- 

 lection from Kolguev, and parts of Dr. Gregory's African 

 collection. 



Mr. A. B. Rendle has compared, named and incorporated 

 with the general Herbarium the Apetalce, Monocotyleclones, 

 and GymnospevTiis collected in Bulgaria by Striborcy ; 

 in Syria, by Post ; in Arabia, by the Bent Expedition ; 

 in Algeria, by Munby ; in Usambara, by Hoist ; in Tropical 

 Africa, by Steudner, Gregory, and Preuss ; in South Africa, 

 by Schlechter ; in North Asia, by Bunge ; in Kolguev Island, 

 by Trevor-Battye ; in India, by King ; in the Straits Settle- 

 ments, by Kidley ; in Borneo, by Lobb ; in New Guinea, by 

 Hellwig ; in Canada, by Macoun ; in Mexico, by Pringle ; in 

 Jamaica, by Fawcett ; and, in Uruguay, by Aplin. He has 

 incorporated the fruits of Monocotyledonous plants collected 

 by Welwitsch in the general collection. Special attention 

 has been given to the Flora of Tropical Africa; the specimens 

 of the petaloid Monocotyledons in the Herbarium have been 

 revised, and a number of new species collected by Dr. Gregory 

 and the Rev. W. E. Taylor have been described. The African 

 species of Pandanus have also been revised, and several 

 novelties described. Several genera of Iridacece and other 

 petaloid Monocotyledons have been re-arranged, and he has 

 devoted considerable time to the genus Paniciim, especially 

 to the elucidation of criticial East Indian species. He has 

 nearly completed the morphological series of Dicotyledonous 

 plants in the Index Museum. 



Mr. Antony Gepp has revised the species of the Orders 

 Seckeraceoi, Hypnacece, Gryphaeacece, Pottiacece, and Calym- 

 peracece. He has named collections of Mosses and Hepatics 

 from East Tropical Africa, Borneo, and Kolguev Island, and 

 has devoted much time to the determination of several collec- 

 tions from the West Indian Islands. 



Mr. G. R. Murray has been chiefly engaged in incorporating 



additions 



