172 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



III. — Exchanges of Duplicates. 



Exchanges have been effected with the Royal Botanic 

 Museum, Berlin; the Hofmuseum, Vienna; the Botanic 

 Museum, Zurich ; the Botanic Gardens, Sydney ; the Botanic 

 Gardens, Singapore ; the Bureau of Agriculture, Manila ; the 

 Cakes Ames Botanical Laboratory, Massachusetts, U.S.A. ; 

 and Dr. Harry Bolus of Cape Town. 



IV. — Loan of Specimens. 



Specimens, mainly undetermined, have been lent as 

 follows : — 130 specimens of Characese to Henry Groves, Esq. ; 

 14 specimens of Potaniogeton, chiefly Japanese, to Arthur 

 Bennett, Esq. ; one specimen of Triuridacese to W. Botting 

 Hemsley, Esq., of the Royal Gardens, Kew ; one specimen of 

 Osmundites from New Zealand to R. Kidston, Esq. ; and a 

 drawing of Gossypium to Sir George Watt. 



The specimens have been duly returned in good condition, 

 accompanied by determinations and valuable notes. 



V. — Departmental Library. 



The additions during the past year have been, by donation, 

 72 volumes, 339 pamphlets ; by purchase, 120 volumes, 2 

 pamphlets— in all 192 volumes, 341 pamphlets. These include 

 18 periodicals, in 150 parts, presented, and 73 periodicals, in 

 629 parts, purchased — in all 91 periodicals in 779 parts. 



137 volumes have been bound, and 8 volumes of plates 

 illustrating Cook's first voyage have been re-arranged and 

 re-bound. The classification and arrangement for binding of 

 the large collection of notes and drawings by R. A. Salisbury 

 has been nearly completed, and original drawings of several 

 collections have been written up. A collection of MSS. by 

 Robert Brown and other botanists and collectors of the early 

 nineteenth century has been sorted and arranged. 



YI. — Acquisitions. 



The following additions have been made to the collections 

 by presentation : — 100 Phanerogams from the Director of the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Sibpur, Calcutta; fruits of Lodoicea 

 sechellarum, from J. Stanley Gardiner, Esq. ; 468 Phane- 

 rogams from Uganda, from Dr. A. G. Bagshawe ; specimens 

 illustrating the life-history of Crocus for the Public 

 Gallery and a species of Statice from E. A. Bowles, Esq. ; 

 20 specimens of Polygala amarella, illustrating variation, 

 from J. Cryer, Esq. ; 3 Phanerogams from India, from Dr. T. 

 Cooke ; 3 specimens of cultivated plants and 3 enlarged 

 photographs, from Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P. ; 126 

 Phanerogams and 7 Cryptogams from Jamaica, from Dr. N. 

 L. Britton ; 109 Phanerogams and 1 Cryptogam from South 



