170 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Botanv". 



I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



During the past year 49,500 specimens have been 

 incorporated with the Herbarium. This number includes 

 21,100 Flowering Plants, 2,406 Vascular Cryptogams, 216 

 Mosses, 53 Hepatics, 2,139 Lichens, 58 Algae, and 1,528 

 Fungi, in all 27,500 specimens, which have been mounted 

 and incorporated ; together with 13,000 specimens of Algse 

 in the Batters Collection which were already well mounted 

 on sheets similar to those in use in the Herbarium, 3,000 

 mounted microscopic slides of Algse (Batters Collection), 

 and 6,000 mounted microscopic slides of Diatoms (Ry lands 

 Collection). 



Flowering Plants. — Collections have been mounted and 

 incorporated as follows : — From Japan. Corea, and Formosa 

 by Faurie (in part), from Central China by Wilson, from 

 Thibet by Younghusband, from the Cameroons by Zenker, 

 from Angola by Gossweiler (in part), from South Africa by 

 Schlechter, from Mexico by Purpus. Collections from the 

 Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and Borneo by Ridley, from 

 Gunong Tahan by Robinson, from Uganda by Bagshawe, 

 from Mt. Ruwenzori by Wollaston, from Rhodesia by Eyles 

 and Swynnerton, and from Chili by Middleton, Scott Elliot 

 and Philippi, have been wholly or in part named, mounted, 

 and incorporated. The revision of the plants collected by 

 Banks and Solander in New Zealand has been completed. 



In the division Polypetalse additions have been made 

 by incorporation, especially in the orders Menispermacese, 

 Tiliacese, and Meliacese (specimens from Herb. Miers) ; Cap- 

 paridacese, Polygalacese, and Simarubacese (chiefly speci- 

 mens from Herb. Hance) ; Caryophyllacese (Indian and 

 American) ; Ranunculacese, Zygophyllacese, and Guttiferae 

 (Indian) ; Crassulacese, Anacardiacese, and Cucurbitacese 

 (African) ; and Leguminosse (various collections). Work of 

 revision and rearrangement has been done in the orders 

 Anonacese, Sterculiacese, and Leguminosse (African), Gera- 

 niacese (North American), Sapindaceas (Malayan), Saxifra- 

 gacese and Rosaceae, and in the genera Modecca, Rhyncosia 

 (South African), Viola (European), Gombretum (African), 

 Acridocarpus and Eloiocarpus (Malayan), Lepidium, 

 Oxalis, and Begonia. 



In the division Gamopetalae additions have been made by 

 incorporation, especially in the orders Rubiacese, Oleaceae, 

 Campanulacese, Apocynacese, Bignoniacese and Scrophu- 

 lariacese, and work of revision and rearrangement has been 

 done in the orders Compositae (especially North American 



