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additions to the Fungi and Algco, upwards of 6,000 specimens 

 of those plants being added to the Herbarium. About two- 

 thirds of these were Fungi, mostly of the Ravenal collection, 

 and the remainder were Algce. He has determined collections 

 of AlgoR from New Zealand, Vancouver, the Antilles, and the 

 Indian Ocean, and added them to the Herbarium. 



The Herbarium was enriched by the presentation by Mrs. 

 Hassall of the collection of Fresh-water Algae which belonged 

 to her late husband. Dr. Arthur Hill Hassall, author of the 

 ^' British Fresh-water Algse." This collection contains, as 

 far as they have been preserved, the types of Dr. Hassall's 

 work ; their acquisition is the more important as they must 

 form the basis of any critical revision of these plants. 



The transverse section of the Sequoia gigantea has been 

 put together and erected in the Great Hall. Sections of the 

 tree have been presented to Kew Gardens, and to the Museums 

 of the University of Cambridge, the University of Glasgow, 

 Owens College, Manchester, the University of Upsala, the 

 College of Science, London, and the Museum, Bradford. A 

 series of British woods has been presented to the Council of 

 the Surveyors' Institution, Westminster. .; 



The additions to the collections by presentation have con-» 

 sisted of 1,815 plants from Malaya, by H. N. Ridley, Esq. ; 

 384! plants from Canada, by the Director of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada ; 261 plants from Borneo, by Dr. Haviland ; 

 133 plants from Penang, by Mr. Curtis ; 156 plants from 

 Arabia, collected in the Bent Expedition, from Mr. Bent ; 129 

 plants from Jamaica, by Mr. Fawcett ; 58 plants from Green- 

 land, by the University of Copenhagen ; 27 plants from 

 Nyasaland, collected by Mr. E,. Crawshay, by Dr. Sclater ; 

 14 'species of orchids and 42 specimens of Pitcher plants, 

 from Messrs. Veitch and Sons ; 22 plants from Australia, by 

 Baron von Muller ; a new species of Abut Hon from India, by 

 the Director of Kew Gardens ; 10 specimens of New Zealand 

 plants, by Mr. H. O. Forbes ; specimens of Gossyioium Stocksii, 

 by Dr. T. Cooke ; seven species of cultivated orchids, by Miss 

 Woolward ; a new species of Si^hceralcea, from Mr. J. N. 

 Rose ; 46 specimens of Algse from Natal, by Maurice S. Evans,, 

 Esq. ; 11 specimens of West Indian Fungi, by W. R. Elliott, 

 Esq. ; 57 specimens of Marine Algae from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, from W. Tyson, Esq., and five species from the same 

 locality, by Major Reinbold ; 31 fungi from North Italy, from 

 W. W. Strickland, Esq. ; 21 species of Algae from Greenland, 

 from the Botanical Museum, Copenhagen ; 62 Cellular 

 Cryptogams, from the Director of the Botanic Garden, Singa- 

 pore ; 26 Cryptogams from Sarawak, from Charles Hose, 

 Esq.; 30 species of Mycetozoa, from Professor McBride ; 

 interesting Cryptogams, from Graf zu Solms-Laubach, Mr. 



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