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During the past year Mr. Moore has incorporated into the 

 Herbarium a number of American Compositse, and a supple- 

 mentary series of bundles comprising African Compositse of 

 all c.ie tribes has been dealt with. Some collections of 

 Acarthacese from Africa have been named and incorporated, 

 anr" +he novelties in them described. Work has also been done 

 or )llections sent by Lieut. -Col. A. S. G. Jayakar (Arabia), 

 Mr. Migeod (Nigeria), Lord Delamere and Dr. Donaldson 

 Smivh (Somaliland and neighbourhood). Dr. R. F. Rand 

 (Rhodesia), Capt. Deasy (Central Asia), Mrs. Nichol (Falkland 

 Islands), &c. 



Dr. Rendle has incorporated in the general Herbarium the 

 Monocotyledons, Apetalous Dicotyledons, and Gymnosperms, 

 of various collections. In the course of this work several 

 genera have been re-arranged or revised, including Artocarpus, 

 Eleagnus, Tetraria and other genera of Cyperacese, Heliconia, 

 Sagittaria, Triglochin, Zannichellia and other genera of 

 aquatic Monocotyledons. He has worked specially at the 

 order Gramineas, the Asiatic species of several genera chiefly 

 of the tribe Andropogonese having been revised in connection 

 with the preparation of a list of the Chinese grasses. A 

 number of cultivated orchids, received by correspondence, 

 have been incorporated, a few new species have been described, 

 and some of the earlier genera of the order revised. He has 

 prepared for publication a list of the Monocotyledons and 

 Apetalous Dicotyledons collected in Chinese Turkestan by 

 Capt. H. H. P. Deasy, describing the novelties; and has 

 also prepared lists of the Monocotyledons collected in Arabia 

 by Jayakar, in tropical Africa by Mackinder, Lord Delamere, 

 Hinde, Donaldson Smith, Penton, and Migeod, and of the 

 Monocotyledons and Apetalous Dicotyledons of a collection 

 by Mrs. E. Nichol from the Falkland Islands, and, in part, of 

 the Monocotyledons collected in Borneo and Celebes by 

 Mr. C. Hose. He has also done some work at the order 

 Convolvulaceie, revising and re-arranging the African genera 

 and species, and working up material recently received or 

 previously undescribed ; he has been helped in this work by 

 a comparison of the South African specimens in the 

 Herbarium of Trinity College, Dublin, generously lent by 

 Professor Perceval Wright. Results of this work are in 

 course of publication. He also devoted a month of his 

 annual leave in March and April to visiting the public 

 and private herbaria and museums at Paris, Genoa, Zurich, 

 Vienna, and Berlin, when he was mainly occupied in 

 working at the genus Najas, and in arranging exchanges 

 of duplicates with the Department of Botany. He has 

 since given some time to the carrying out of exchanges thus 

 initiated. 



Mr. Gepp has been employed in preparing for press the 

 cryptogamic part of the Catalogue of Welwitsch's African 

 Plants, monographing the Mosses and contributing to the 

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