160 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Weber von Bosse, Dr. Giinther, Colonel Feilden, W. W. 

 Baggally, Esq., H. Morland, Esq., Surgeon Axford, r.n., Dr. 

 Bommer, E. Grove, Esq., Professor Barnes, L. S. Cheney, Esq., 

 and the Rev. R. P. Murray ; seven slides of Diatomacese, 

 collected by Sir Joseph Hooker in India, from the Director 

 of Kew Gardens ; and 17 Algae, collected in the Bent Expedi- 

 tion to Arabia, from Mr. Bent. 



The following additions have been made by presentation to 

 the British Herbarium : — 753 specimens, from the Rev. W. 

 Hunt Painter ; 22 species, from Mr. A. W. Bennett ; specimens 

 of Cyperus fuscus, from Hampshire, from the Rev. W. R. 

 Linton ; specimens of Carex incurva, from Holy Island, from 

 Professor Oliver ; specimens of Astragalus alpinus and 

 Menziesia polifolia, from Scotland, from Mr. A. B. Hall ; 

 specimens of Erodiwrn, from Ireland, from Professor Perceval 

 Wright ; specimens of Trichomanes radicans, from Mon- 

 mouthshire, from Mr. W. Robinson ; 39 specimens of Marine 

 Algse, from Professor Johnson ; 71 specimens of Algse, and 12 

 Fungi, from Miss A. Lorrain Smith ; 18 specimens of Fungi, 

 from the Hon. Mabel de Grey ; and interesting specimens 

 from David Robertson, Esq., Dr. Masters, Professor Stewart, 

 J. Saunders, Esq., George Brebner, Esq., T. W. Powell, Esq., 

 W. Herring, Esq., W. Whitwell, Esq., W. G. Smith, Esq., 

 W. R. Ogilvy Grant, Esq., and W. H. Pearson, Esq. 



The following additions have been made by exchange for 

 duplicates: — 108 microscopic preparations of British Hepaticse, 

 from Miss Tindall ; 308 species of Tropical African plants, 48 

 species i'rom Japan, and 292 Cellular Cryptogams, from the 

 Director of the Royal Botanical Museum, Berlin ; 670 speci- 

 mens of plants from India and Malaya, from Dr. King, of 

 Calcutta ; and 46 Norwegian plants, from T. Wulff, Esq. 



The following collections have been acquired by purchase : — 

 100 specimens of African plants, collected by Schlechter ; 315 

 from Anatolia, collected by Bornmiiller; 100 species of Euro- 

 pean Fungi from Rabenhorst ; 161 plants from Bulgaria, col- 

 lected by Wagner ; 96 species from Galicia, collected by 

 Dr. Blockj ; 200 species from Mexico, collected by Pringle ; 

 50 sections of American woods prepared by Hough ; 

 a collection of British Rubi, collected by the Rev. 

 E. F. Linton ; 46 preparations of British Marine Algse, by 

 Buffham ; 150 Mosses and Lichens, from Canada, collected by 

 Macoun ; 200 species of fresh-water Algae, from Wittrock 

 and Nordstedt ; 350 European Fungi, from Sydow ; 25 

 Characeoe, from Migula, Sydow, and Wahlstedt ; 100 Fungi of 

 Saxony, from Krieger ; 150 species of economic Fungi, from 

 Seymour and Earle ; 146 species of Cryptogams, from Brazil, 

 from Mr. Spencer Moore ; 100 species of Algae, from Hauck and 

 Richter ; 193 species of Mosses, from N. America, from Rev. 

 A. C. Waghorne ; 400 species of parasitic Fungi, from Scandi- 

 navia, from Erikson ; 124 species of Lichens, from the collec- 

 tions 



