174 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



5 pamphlets — in all 170 volumes, 108 pamphlets. These include 

 17 periodicals, in 132 parts, presented, and 74 periodicals, in 

 648 parts, purchased — -in all 91 periodicals in 780 parts. 



153 volumes have been bound. The correspondence 

 relating to the Rylands collection of Diatoms and including 

 the Walker Arnott correspondence has been arranged and 

 placed in the Library ; and the pamphlets and MSS. contained 

 in the Crombie Lichen-collection have been catalogued and 

 indexed. The collection of tracts has been arranged on 

 shelves. 



Work of incorporation and revision has been done in 

 the general collection of drawings of specimens, especially 

 in the incorporation of the large collection of original water- 

 colour drawings of Indian plants, made by Dr. Fleming. 

 The classification and arrangement for binding of the large 

 collection of notes and drawings by R. A. Salisbury has been 

 completed. Indexes have been prepared of various books 

 and collections. New book-shelves have been added in the 

 Cryptogamic herbarium. Duplicate books and pamphlets 

 have been distributed to the Royal Gardens, Kew, the 

 Linnean Society, and the Botanic Gardens, Singapore. 



VI. — A cquisitions. 



The following additions have been made to the collections 

 by presentation: — 396 Phanerogams from Uganda, from 

 Dr. A. G. Bagshawe ; 245 Phanerogams and 30 Cryptogams 

 from Rhodesia, from F. Eyles, Esq. ; 126 specimens from 

 Uganda, from Mrs. Sybil M. Tufnell ; 38 specimens from the 

 Soudan, from the Director of Woods and Forests, Kartoum ; 

 200 specimens from Gazaland, from C. F. M. Swynnerton, 

 Esq. ; 50 specimens of Umbelliferse and Compositae, and 

 43 Monocotyledons from Algeria, from M. A. Joly Elbahy ; 

 48 specimens from South Africa, from Rev. F. A. Rogers (in 

 return for naming) ; 23 specimens from Lake Kivu, Central 

 Africa, from Dr. Wollaston ; 10 specimens from Uganda, from 

 E. Brown, Esq. ; 10 specimens from Fayoum, from Dr. W. A. 

 Cunnington ; 5 specimens from South Africa, from Dr. H. 

 Bolus ; 14 specimens of Podostemacese from India, from J. C. 

 Willis, Esq. ; 4 specimens from Garhwal, from Dr. T. G. Long- 

 staff"; 2 specimens of JVissadula from Brazil, from R. Fries ; 

 50 specimens of plants from W. Australia, collected by 

 W. V. Fitzgerald, from F. S. Brockman, Esq. ; 4 specimens 

 of Eremophila, etc., from Australia, from Prof. A. J. Ewart ; 

 390 specimens from Chili, Brazil, and the Falkland Islands, 

 from R. Morton Middleton, Esq. ; 2 specimens of orchids 

 from Jamaica, from the Hon. W. Fawcett ; 3 specimens of 

 Ophrys, from Hyeres, from H. S. Thompson, Esq. ; 2 specimens 

 of flowering plants from Rev. W. Moyle Rogers ; 64 specimens 

 of garden plants for exhibition from the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew ; 3 specimens of cultivated plants from Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild, M.P. ; specimens of fossil seeds of Najas marina 



