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Transvaal by Dr. Rand, and Matto Grosso by Robert, and has 

 incorporated a number of orchids and other cultivated plants 

 obtained by presentation. He has spent some time on a 

 critical revision of the Asiatic grasses, chiefly of the tribes 

 Phalaridese, Agrostidese, Avenese, Chloridese, and Festuce^e 

 in connection with the preparation of a monograph of the 

 Chinese grasses for the " Index Florae Sinensis " ; in the 

 course of this work a comparative study has been made of 

 the material in the British Museum and the Kew Herbarium. 

 He has also completed a revision of the MyricacesBj including 

 the material in the Sloane and Linnean Herbaria. Some 

 time has also been demoted to a supervision of the work 

 in the illustration of the orders of flowering plants in the 

 Public Gallery. He has conducted several parties of stu- 

 dents and other visitors through the public and other collec- 

 tions ; these included members of the Selborne Society, of 

 the Co-operative Holidays Association, and of the Birkbeck 

 College. 



Mr. Gepp has been occupied chiefly in gathering togeilier 

 and preparing for publication the materials for the crypto- 

 gamic portion of the report on the collections of the Depart- 

 ment. He has continued the incorporation of the Stephani 

 collection of Hepaticse and the revision of the exotic Hepaticse 

 in accordance with Stephani's monographs of the genera. 

 He has also been occupied with the incorporation of the 

 Bescherelle Herbarium with the general collection of Mosses. 



Mr. Blackman has been engaged on work jn connection 

 with the collections of Fungi, and on work in the Public 

 Gallery and Index Museum. He has paid special attention 

 to the Uredinese and has incorporated a number of Sphserop- 

 sidese, and a large number of Pyrenomycetes from various 

 published sets. Under his supervision the rearrangement of 

 cases in the Public Gallery, illustrating Dicotyledons has been 

 carried out under his supervision. 



Mr. Moore has been occupied in the incorporation of 

 Euphorbiaceee, mainly American. 



Mr. Worthington G. Smith has revised the Gasteromycetes 

 in the British and General Herbaria and has renewed in 

 several genera his revision of the Hymenomycetes. 



Miss A. Lorrain Smith has commenced the remounting of 

 the British Lichens, and the preparation of a series for 

 exhibition in the Public Gallery. 



Miss M. 0. Mitchell has nearly completed a series of 

 drawings and preparations for the case illustrating the 

 summer and winter habit and mode of growth of British- 

 grown trees by means of photographs, drawings, models, and 

 specimens, which has been begun in the Index Museum. 



