166 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE ■ BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Some Works of C. F. P. von Martius. By Mr. B. B. Wood- 

 ward. (Journal of Botany.) 



Some SufFrutescont Apocynacese from Angola. By Dr. Otto 

 Stapf, Keeper of the Herbarium, Koyal Gardens, Kew. (Journal 

 of Botany.) 



The Subsection Eucaninse of the Genus Bosa. By Major 

 A. H. Wolley-Dod. (Journal of Botany.) 



The Forms of Salvia Verbenaca L. By Mr. H. W. Pugsley. 

 ^(Journal of Botany.) 



The Morphology and Systematic Position of Scytothamnus 

 australis. By Miss Charlotte M. Gibson. (Journal of Botany.) 



New and Bare British Fungi. By Miss A. Lorrain Smith 

 (with Mr. Carleton Bea). (Transactions of the British Myco- 

 jogical Society.) 



III. — Exchange of Duplicates. 



Exchanges have been effected with the Botanic Gardens, 

 Singapore ; the Botanic Museum, Zurich ; the Hofmuseum, 

 Vienna ; the Botanic Museum, Copenhagen ; the United States 

 National Herbarium, Washington ; the Museu Goeldi, Para, 

 Brazil ; Dr. H. Bolus, Cape Town ; and Oswald Sargent, Esq., 

 York, West Australia. 



IV. — Loan of Specimens. 

 Specimens for determination have been lent as follows : — 

 34 specimens of Chinese Im2:)atien8 to Sir Joseph Hooker ; 



24 specimens of Xanthophyllum to Dr. Robert Chodat, of 



Geneva. 



V. — Departmental Library. 

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

 56 volumes, 118 pamphlets ; by purchase, 162 volumes— in all 

 218 volumes, 118 pamphlets. These include 18 periodicals in 

 162 parts, presented, and 86 periodicals in 634 parts, purchased — 

 in all 99 periodicals in 796 parts. 

 164 volumes have been bound. 



Work of incorporation and revision has been done in the 

 general collection of drawings of specimens, and the following 

 series of drawings have been arranged and bound : Miss Florence 

 W^oolward's original drawings of the genus Masdevallia ; 

 Fernando Noronha's Java Plants ; and Domingos Vandelli's 

 Brazilian Plants. The Salisbury drawings and MSS. have been 

 Tt)ound. The collection of Miers' drawings and MSS. and 

 Deschamps' drawings have been arranged and placed in 

 Solander cases, and a selection of Miss E. N. Gwatkin's drawings 

 of British Plants has been bound and placed on exhibition in 

 the public gallery. 



VI. — A cquisitions. 

 The followinof additions have been made to the collections by 

 presentation :— The Herbarium of the late Rev. R. P. Murray, 



