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and one or two specimens from Mrs. Gepp, Miss Willmott, 

 M. Ed. Bomet, Messrs. A. W. Allen, W. Ledger, E. A. Bowles, 

 H. T. Pitt, J. W. O'Dell, W. H. Rudd, and Rev. R. Ashington 

 Bullen. 



The following additions have been made to the British 

 Herbarium by presentation : — 27 specimens from C. E. Salmon, 

 Esq. ; 54 from G. C. Druce, Esq. ; 28 from Rev. E. F. Linton 

 8 from Arthur Bennett, Esq. ; 82 from Rev. E. S. Marshall 

 297 from C. E. Britton, Esq. ; 19 from Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell 

 5 photographs of " Witches' Broom " from Mr. J. Saunders 

 18 new or rare Hepatics of Scotland from S. M. Macvicar, 

 Esq. ; 5 species of prepared British Fungi from C. E. Hartley- 

 Smith, Esq. ; and single specimens from Sir Joseph Hooker, 

 Mrs. Hiscock, Rev. H. W. Lett, Messrs. F. Townsend and 

 Worthington G. Smith. 



The following additions have been made by exchange 

 of duplicates : — 63 Phanerogams and 12 Cryptogams from 

 Australia and Norfolk Island, from J. H. Maiden, Esq. ; 

 147 specimens from South Africa from R. Schlechter, Esq. 



The principal purchases made during the year were : — A 

 large series of plants, comprising 5,036 Phanerogams and 

 211 Vascular Cryptogams, collected by Dr. Hassler in 

 Paraguay between the years 1885 and 1902 ; a series of 

 plants from Japan, Formosa, and Korea, consisting of 1,475 

 Phanerogams and 166 Ferns, collected by the Abb^ Urban 

 Faurie ; 2,075 Phanerogams and QQ Cryptogams from Central 

 China, by Father Hugh ; 120 Phanerogams and 35 Cryptogams 

 from California, by A. A. Heller ; 1,179 Phanerogams and 

 8 Cryptogams from Angola, by John Gossweiler ; 25 speci- 

 mens of American Woods, by R. Hough ; 124 Phanerogams 

 and 7 Cryptogams of the Flora Polonica, by E. Woloszczak ; 

 395 Phanerogams and 23 Cryptogams from Gulf States of 

 America, by S. M.Tracy; 121 specimens "Herbarium den- 

 drologicum," by Dr. Koehne ; 200 specimens " Flora Car- 

 niolica," by A. Paulin ; 592 Phanerogams and 3 Cryptogams 

 from New Mexico, by O. B. Metcalfe ; 400 specimens from 

 Japan, by Takeda ; 224 specimens from Servia, by Oscar 

 Bierbach ; 288 Phanerogams and 13 Cryptogams from Isla 

 de Pinos, also 201 Phanerogams and 3 Cryptogams from New 

 Providence Island, by A. H. Curtiss ; 250 Cryptogams of 

 Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, by Migula ; 50 Ascomy- 

 cetous Fungi, by Rehm ; 100 rare Microfungi, by Vestergren ; 

 100 Bohemian Mosses, by Bauer ; 200 German Fungi, 50 

 Uredinese, and 50 Ustilaginese, by Sydow ; 20 specimens and 

 40 microscope-preparations of new and rare Microfungi, by 

 Miss A. L. Smith ; 50 select Fungi, by Otto Jaap ; 9 select 

 British Lichens, by Crombie ; 100 Saxon Fungi, by Krieger ; 

 50 North American marine Algae, by Collins, Holden, and 

 Setchell ; 25 rare British Algse, by Holmes ; 87 species of 

 prepared Hymenomycetous Fungi, by Hartley Smith ; 421 

 Ferns of China, Japan, &c., by Hope ; 180 Ohio Fungi, by 



