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and other sources have been mounted and incorporated ; and 

 small collections from South Africa and New Zealand have 

 been named. 



Bryophyta. — Specimens collected in Fiji by Miss Gibbs have 

 been determined; sections of the Jungermanniacese and Mar- 

 chantiacese from Stephani's herbarium and a portion of G. 

 Davies's herbarium, have been incorporated in the general and 

 British series, and a working index to the general collection of 

 Hepaticse has been prepared. 



Algce. — Work of revision and determination has been done 

 on the Characeae, Udotese and Peridinieae, and on Algae from 

 the West Indies, South Africa, Indian and Pacific Oceans. A 

 slip-catalogue of bibliographic and iconographic references for 

 the Peridiniese has been compiled. 



Fungi. — Work of incorporation has been done in the 

 Uredinese, Pyrenomycetes and Discomycetes, and in Australasian 

 Fungi of C. E. Broome's herbarium ; portions of the British 

 series have been rearranged and augmented. 



Lichens. — Progress has been made with the incorporation 

 and revision of the British Lichens, chiefly the Graphidese and 

 Verrucariese. 



Exhibition Series. — Various specimens have been added 

 to the general series in the public gallery ; the exhibitions 

 illustrating climbing and epiphytic plants have been rearranged 

 and an exhibition illustrating the dwarfing of plants when 

 ejrowing in dry exposed places has been prepared. A series of 

 coloured drawings of the wild and cultivated varieties of 

 Mushrooms and poisonous or worthless species liable to be 

 mistaken for them has been prepared by Mr. Worthington 

 Smith and placed on exhibition. Progress has been made with 

 the exhibition of a series of British Lichens, and with the 

 selection and preparation of specimens and drawings for an 

 exhibition of British Hepatics. Progress has been made with 

 the exhibition illustrating the general characters of Seed-plants 

 in the Central Hall. 



Catalogues. — Progress has been made with the preparation 

 of a Monograph of the Orchids of Jamaica by Mr. Fawcett 

 and Dr. Rendle, of a Catalogue of the Sloane Herbarium by 

 Mr. Britten, of the second volume, by Miss A. Lorrain Smith, 

 of Crombie's Catalogue of British Lichens and of the second 

 edition of Lister's Monograph of the Mycetozoa. New editions 

 have been prepared of the Guide to the British Mycetozoa 

 (third edition), of the guide to the exhibition of Books and 

 Portraits illustrating the History of Plant Classification 

 (second edition), and of Lnstructions for Collectors : Plants 

 (fourth edition). 



II. — Publications. 



Books and Portraits illustrating the History of Plant Classi- 

 fication (second edition). 



Guide to the British Mycetozoa (third edition). 



