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



Glasgow, to whom tliese specimens belonged. But one of the most important additions 

 that the Aerolitic Collections has received for many years consists in two large stones sent 

 from Madras by the liberality of Sir William Denison, Governor of that Presidency, who 

 has forwarded to the Museum the great stone which fell at Parnallee on 28 February 1857, 

 weighing 130 lbs., and that which fell at Yatoor, Nellore, on 23 January 1852, both of 

 which were previously preserved in the Museum at Madras. 



The other acquisitions made for the Collection include Phosgenite in fine crystals, from 

 a new locality in the Island of Sardinia, a discovery of Signor Sella's, resulting from a 

 visit to the British Museum. 



Anglesite, from Monte Poni. 



Senarmontite, from Algeria. 



Chloride of silver, from Cornwall. 



FahJore, Bismuth glance and Barytes, from Cornwall. 



A green Turquoise, of large dimensions, weighing 4 lbs. 3 oz., taken from the Summer 

 Palace, Pekin, and probably from a locality in Tartary. 



A Ruby Spinel, acquired also from the Summer Palace. 



Yttrotantalites and Gadolinites, from Sweden. 



Antimonite, in splendid crystals, from Hungary. 



Wagnerite, very fine, from Werfen ; and a most valuable and choice series of gold 

 specimens, representing the most important localities in the British Colonies, and chiefly 

 obtained in the Exhibition. 



Besides the Aerolites already described as presented to the Museum, the Collection has 

 also been considerably increased by purchase. 



Among the more important additions to it may be mentioned a fine specimen of the 

 new Concord Stone, weighing 17 lbs. An entire little stone of the Sienna Fall, specimens 

 of those of Garz and Liponas, and fine masses of the stones of Mezb-Madaras and Bremer- 

 vorde and of the Irons of Arva, Schwetz, Lake LcEsgen, and Tolucca. 



Nevil Story Mashelyne. 



Department of Botany. 



The principal business of the department in the year 1862 has consisted — 



In the naming, arranging, and laying into the General Herbarium of the remainder of 

 J)r. Seemann's Collections made in the Islands/of the Fiji Archipelago, as well as of those 

 previously made by liim in the other islands of the Pacific Ocean ; of Collections made in 

 various Pacific islands by Captain Cook, Sir Everard Home, Mr. M'Gillivray and oihers ; 

 of Mr. Gardner's extensive Collection of Brazilian Plants ; of the large collection of French 

 and German Plants distributed by M. Billot ; of a further portion of Dr. Horsfieid's 

 Javanese Herbarium, and of Mr. Thwaites' Collections in Ceylon ; and of a considerable num- 

 ber of specimens from the extensive Collections of Cryptogamic Plants, recently purchased. 



In the re-arrangement of the families of Guttiferce, Connaracecs, Ochnacece, Simarubea, 

 and MimosecE ; of the genus Euphorbia ; and of the Ferns belonging to the Swartzian 

 genus Aspidium. 



In the re-distribution of the General Herbarium in the cases, so as to afford space for 

 new accessions. 



In the examination of the various Collections recently acquired, and especially of the 

 very extensive collection presented by the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries. 



In the arrangement in the Exliibition cases of one of the public rooms of a part of the 

 collection of Fossil Woods bequeathed by Mr. Robert Brown. 



In the further arrangement of the British Herbarium, the addition to it of numerous 

 specimens, and the examination and cataloguing of the collection of British DiatomacecB. 



And in the continued examination of the volumes of the Sloanean Herbarium, 

 especially with reference to British Plants. 



^ Mr. Bennett's warm acknowledgments are again due to the Rev. W. W. Newbould for 

 his continued valuable assistance in relation especially to the British and Sloanean Herbaria. 



The following are the principal additions made to the Department during the same period, 

 by purchase or donation : — 



A valuable series of Plants, collected during the 17th & 18th centuries, including the 

 important Herbaria of Ray, Dale, Rand, and NichoUs, presented by the WorshipfulCom- 

 pany of Apothecaries. 



2,542 species of Cryptogamous Plants, forming the Herbarium of the late George Jasper 

 Lyon, Esq. 



3,300 species of European Plants, forming fasc. 1-33 of M. Billot's " Flora Galliae et 

 Germanise Exsiccata." 



624 species of European Lichens, forming fasc. 1-22 of Rabenhorst's " Lichenes." 

 180 species of jyejoa^/cre, forming dec. 1-18 of Rabenhorst's " Hepaticse." 

 800 species o^ Fungi, forming cent. 1-8 of Rabenhorst's " Fungi." 



50 species, forming fasc. 18 &19, and completing the set of Dickson's " British Plants." 

 ] on sheets of British Plants, from the Herbarium of the Botanical Society of London. 

 14 sheeis of British specimens of the genus Oenanthe. 



46 species 



