22 ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Lostvvithiel, from whom the Museum has for many years purchased the finest Cornish 

 specimens, has supplied it during the past year with brilliant and large crystallised Bour- 

 noniies, with which no specimens in any other Collection can vie. 



Fahlerz, gilded by ;i richly-coloured superficial coating of Copper Pyrites, has also come 

 in cr\sials from the same mineral dealer, together with several other Cornish speciraena, 

 among which may be mentioned — 



Several modified crystals (old specimens) of Fluor. 



Detached crystals of Childrenite and some specimens of Francolite, from Cornwall. 



Wagneriies and Lazulites, obtained through W. G. Lettsom, Esq., to whose zeal also 

 the Museum is indebted for several fine aud rare minertls Such are — 



A very fine crystal of Emerald from Saltzburg. 



Red Corundum, from Canton Tessin. 



Xenotime, in excellent crystals. 



Johannite. 



Orangiie and Thorite. 



Ehliie. 



Tyrolite. 



P<jsbergite. 



Clausilialite. 



Rose Fluor, fi'onti Canton Un. 



Besides these may be enumerated — 



Realgar, finely crystallised. 



Hauerite. 



A veiyfine specimen of Polybasite from Freiberg, and one of Akanthite with massive 

 Argentite, which latter is pseudomorphous, after filiform native silver from the same 

 locality. 



Wohlerite. 



A fine terminated crystal of Beryl from Siberia. 



Childrenite from Wheal Crebor. 



Mr. Wright has furnished the Museum with some remarkably fine Fluors from Cum- 

 berland, ai:d with several other good minerals, including Chiomo-Phosphate of Lead, 

 Cumberland. 

 f^ A large specimen of the Zacatjicas meteoric Iron recently investigated by Hugo Miiller, Esq. 



A fine specimen of Cronstedtite from Cornwall, and a specimen containing crystals of 

 Chromite from the United States. 



The Crystallographic Collection is in process of arrangement, and, when a great number 

 of detached crystals scattered through the large series in the table cases are added to it, 

 it will be a most valuable addition to the interest of the department, 



Nevil Story-Maskelyne. 



Department of Botany. 



In the year ending 31st December 1859, the various collections and specimens received 

 during the year have been examined and partially arranged. The Collections of British 

 Plants formed by the late Mr. James Sowerby, Mr. Edward Forster, and Mrs. Robinson 

 have been incorporated into a single series, and placed in a state adapted for consultation 

 by students; a further selection has been made from Dr. Horsfield's Javanese Herbarium; 

 a further portion of the collections foriued by Mr. Thwaites in Ceylon, and by Mr. Spruce 

 in Northern Brazil and Eastern Peru, together with the collections made by Dr. Edward 

 Vogel in the interior of Northern Africa, have been arranged and laid into the General 

 Herbarium ; and the families of Homalina:, Flacourtiana, DroseracecB, ThymeleoBy ElagriecB, 

 Santalacea, Artocarpea, Ulmacecz, and Aroidea, together with a portion of the Ferns, have 

 been re-arranged in conformity with modern revisions of those families. 



The following is an enumeration of the principal additions made to the Department 

 by purchase or donation, viz. — 



The Original Drawings (upwards of 2,500 in number), executed by the late Mr. James 

 Sowerby for the work entitled " English Botany," together with the corresponding 

 Herbarium of British Plants. 



94 species of Lichens and Mosses, chiefly from Aberdeenshire, presented by Charles 

 Home, Esq., Beng. C. S. 



40 species of Lichens, forming the 1st fasc.culus of " Lichenes Hibernici Exsiccati," by 

 Mr. Isaac Carroll. 



68 species of Plants of Mogador, collected and presented by the Rev. R. T. Lowe, m.a. 



3,851 species of Plants of India, presented by J. D. Hooker, Esq., M. d., and T. Thomson, 

 Esq., M. D. 



16 species of Lichens from the Himalaya, collected and presented by Charles Home, Esq., 

 Beng. C. S. 



396 species 



