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collectors : he has incorporated in the Herbarium a large 

 number of plants of the order Valerianacse, Styracese, 

 Bignoniacese, Oleacese, and has rearranged the Myrsinacese. 

 He has written up in the Herbarium specimens referred to 

 in Herbert's " Amaryllidacese " and in the earlier volumes of 

 the " Botanical Magazine," as well as Buchanan's Avan plants. 

 In conjunction with Dr. Eendle be worked out and named 

 the plants brought by Mr. H. Hesketh Prichard from 

 Patagonia. 



Mr. Moore has been largely occupied during the past year 

 in the incorporation of Euphorbiacese. The Compositse 

 received during the year have been placed in the Herbarium, 

 and work has been done in the elucidation of interesting 

 novelties. 



Dr. Rendle has incorporated in the general Herbarium the 

 Monocotyledons, Apetalous Dicotyledons, and Gymnosperms 

 of various collections including European, Asiatic, African, 

 American, and Australian. In the course of this work 

 several genera have been revised and rearranged, including 

 members of Orchidacese, Amary]lidace8e,Urticace8e and others. 

 He has completed a revision of the order Proteacese, with 

 the incorporation of a large number of South African and 

 Australian specimens, and has revised and rearranged 

 according to a recent monograph by Chevalier the order 

 Myricacese. The genus Dendrobium has also been revised and 

 rearranged. He has worked out the Monocotyledons and 

 Apetalous Dicotyledons in collections from China (Dalziel), 

 South Africa (Ommanney) and in part from East tropical 

 Africa (Kassner) South Africa (Barrett-Hamilton and Rand); 

 notes including description of novelties have been published. 

 In conjunction with Mr. Britten he has worked out and 

 prepared for publication a list of plants collected in Pata- 

 gonia by Mr. Hesketh PrichArd. Numerous Orchids and 

 other cultivated specimens have been aquired by correspon- 

 dence and otherwise, and incorporated ; these include many 

 novelties. 



Mr. Gepp has been engaged in revising and laying out the 

 exotic Hepatics in accordance with Stephani's monographs of 

 the genera ; in revising the mosses of Sikkim ; and in sorting 

 *and laying out the Hepatics of the Pearson herbarium for 

 incorporation in the general collection. He has worked out 

 two collections of Pleistocene Mosses from Oxfordshire and 

 Suffolk ; and has named the Ferns, Mosses, and other 

 Cryptogams in various collections from Brazil, South 

 Trinidad, Patagonia, Falkland Islands, China, East Africa, 

 and has laid out the specimens for incorporation ; he has 

 revised some of the acrocarpous moss-genera, and some of 

 the thalloid Hepatics. 



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

 on work in connection with the collections of Fungi 



