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He has also devoted some time to a revision of the Tropical 

 African Oonvolvulacese, making a comparative study of the 

 material at the British Museum and Kew for the " Flora of 

 Tropical Afiica." Some time has also been given to a super- 

 vision of the work in the Public Gallery in illustration of 

 the orders of flowering plants, He has conducted several 

 parties of students through the collections. 



Mr. Gepp has incorporated with the Herbarium the 

 Dicranacese of Bescherelle's herbarium, a portion of Hope'u 

 ferns of India, Faurie's ferns of Japan, Formosa, and Korea, 

 and other sets of mosses and ferns ; he has named and revised 

 various sets of African, Indian, West Indian, and Australian 

 ferns and Muscinese, and has begun to revise the Selaginel- 

 lacese and Rhizocarpese. He has checked and corrected the 

 report on the Cryptogams for the history of the collections 

 of the Department, and has revised the labels for the exhibition 

 of British Lichens. 



Mr. Blackman has been engaged on work in connection 

 with the collection of Fungi and on the Index Museum in 

 the Central Hall. In the Fungi special attention has been 

 paid to the Uredinese and to the microscopic coprophilous 

 Ascomycetes, and a rearrangement of the Gasteromycetes 

 has been begun. In the Index Museum, with the assistance 

 of Miss Fraser, the fii'st part of the morphological series 

 dealing with Angiosperms has been revised and re-labelled. 

 With the help of Miss Mitchell progress has been made with 

 an exhibit displaying the characters and mode of growth of 

 British Trees. 



Mr. Spencer Moore has continued the incorporation of 

 Euphorbiacese, and has also incorporated the Indian Acan- 

 thacese of various collectors. He has voluntarily devoted 

 considerable time to working out the Gamopetalse of recent 

 collections. 



Miss A. Lorrain Smith has made much progress in the 

 revision and remounting of the British Lichens and in the 

 preparation of a series for exhibition in the Public Gallery. 

 She has also mounted and repaired a number of microscope- 

 slides of cryptogams. 



Mrs. Gepp has continued her voluntary services to the 

 Department in revising marine Algse already in the Her- 

 barium and naming fresh collections which have been 

 received from Wei-hai-wei (Boy den), Swatow (Howell), and 

 New South Wales (Lucas). 



Miss M. O. Mitchell has completed the drawings and 

 prepared specimens which with photographs and models 

 illustrate the mode of growth of British trees in the case 

 exhibited in the Central Plall. 



Misses Eleanor and Frances Whitting have finished cata- 

 loguing the study set of the Comber collection of Diatoms, 

 amounting to nearly 2,850 slides. 



