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During the past year Mr. Moore has been incorporating into 

 the collection and to some extent, rearranging Myrtacese 

 belonging to all tribes. Work has also been done on the 

 African Compositse and Acanthacese, the Myoporinese, &c. 



Dr. Eendle 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 rearranged or revised, including members 

 of Orchidaceee and Iridacese, the tribe Lepidocaryese of 

 Palmacese, and several genera of Scitaminese. The order 

 Pandanaceee has been rearranged in accordance with the 

 recently published jnonograph by Warburg. Some time has 

 been spent in a revision of the Natural Order Proteaceee, with 

 the incorporation of a large number of specimens, chiefly 

 South African. An account of the Monocotyledons collected 

 by Mr. Charles Hose in Borneo and Celebes has been prepared 

 for publication; and descriptions of various novelties in this 

 and other groups have also been published. The genus Trillium 

 has been revised, and a careful examination made of the old 

 types and specimens in Herb. Sloane and elsewhere, and the 

 result of the work prepared for publication. He has also 

 done some work on West Indian Orchids with a view to a 

 monograph of the species native of Jamaica, in conjunction 

 with the Hon. W. Fawcett, the director of the Jamaica 

 Botanic Gardens. To ensure as complete a work as possible 

 Mr. Fawcett has sent over the whole of the collection of 

 Orchids from the Herbarium attached to the gardens. 

 Numerous Orchids and other cultivated specimens have 

 been acquired by correspondence and incorporated; many 

 novelties were obtained in this way. 



Mr. Gepp has been occupied in the final revisions of the 

 sheets of the Catalogue of Welwitsch's African Plants, 

 Vol. II., part ii., and in revising the transcripts and text of 

 the Illustrations of the Botany of Cook's First Voyage 

 in the light of Solander's original manuscript. He was left 

 in charge of the Department from August to November 

 during the absence of the Keeper from England with the 

 British Antarctic Expedition. He has laid out and revised 

 the recently recovered portion of the study set of Wilson's 

 British Mosses, a further portion of the exotic Hepatics of 

 Stephani, the British Hepatics of McArdle, the Antarctic 

 Cryptogams of McOormick ; has named some collections of 

 Ferns and Mosses from India and the West Indies, North 

 America, New Zealand, Madeira, East Tropical Africa ; and 

 has revised various genera principally belonging to the 

 Dicranacese. 



Mr. V. H. Blackman has been engaged during the past year 

 on work in connection with the collections of Fungi, Mycetozoa 

 and Lichens, and on work connected with the exhibits in the 

 Public Gallery. The large collection of North American 

 Fungi, purchased last year, has been almost completely 



