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



Botanical Department. 



The principal business of the department during the year 1863 has consisted — 



In the naming, arranging, and laying into the General Herbarium of various collections 

 of Plants from the Sandwich Islands and f'om the Islands of the South Pacific; of Pavon's 

 Collections of Mexican and Spanish Plants; of Professor Fallal's Herbarium of European 

 and Siberian Plants; of the Collection of Nepaul Plants of Dr. Hamilton Buchanan; of 

 a further portion of Mr. Thwiiites's Plants of Ceylon ; of Mr. Forbes's Plants of Mada- 

 gascar and Mozambique; of Martin's and Scliomburgk's Guiana Plants ; of Dr. Giilies's 

 Collection of Chilian Compositoi ; of an extensive Colleciion of Plants of SDutiiern Africa 

 from various collectors; and of numerous specimens of J/epaf/cfS fiom the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and from other quarters. 



In the i-e-arrangement of various families of Plants, including Conifercs, the genus Quercus, 

 Characece, and portions of tiie General Cryptogamic Collection, as \\ell as of several por- 

 tions of the collection of Fruits and Seeds, especially those of the taniily of Palms. 



In the examination of the various collections recently received, and their partial arrange- 

 ment, v\iih a view to their incorporation in the Herbarium. 



In the arrangement of laric specuneus of Australian woods, and of some of the larger 

 and more remarkable fruits, in the Exhibition cases of the public rooms. 



In the re-arrangement of various portions of the British Herbarium, especially the Mosses, 

 Hepaticse, Alg?e, and Fungi, with the addition of numerous specimens Irom the Herbarium 

 of Mr. Lyle, and frum other collections. 



And in the continued examination of the Slonean Herbarium, especially in reference to 

 British Plants. 



Mr. Bennett has to acknowledge the great kindness of Mrs. Gray, in undertaking and 

 completing the re-arrangt ment, with large additions, of the British Collection of Algce ; and 

 the unremittino- attention bestowed by the Rev. W. W. Newbould, on the British collection 

 generally, and on the British Plants of the Sloanean Herbarium in particular. 



The following are the principal additions which have been made to the department 

 during the same period, by purchase or donation : — 



500 species of British Plants from various coUeclors:. 



12fi species of rare or critical British Plants, presented by A. G. More, Esq. 

 67 species of British AlgcB, including two fine specimens of Codium Bursa, L., col- 

 lected by Miss Poore and Miss Scott. 



32 species and varieties of the genus Mentha ; from the Herbarium of Dr. Wirtgen. 

 103 species of Cichcnacea?, prepared by Dr. Schullz, of Deuxponts. 

 2,300 species of German Plants, forming part of the " Flora Germanise Exsiccata " of 

 Professor Reichenbach. 

 1580 species of Plants of the Tyrol, from the Ferdinandeum at Innsbruck. 

 387 species of Hepaticce and Mosses, collected in and near the Pass of the Simplon, 

 presented by Professor Gagliardi. 



105 species oi' Hepalica and Lie Jiens, forming part of rlabenhorst's, '' Hepaticae," and 

 " Lichenes Europaei." 



129 species of Plants of Ceylon, collected by Mr. Thwaites. 



690 species of Plants of Southern and Tropical Australia, collected by Dr. Ferd. Miiller. 



89 species of Plants of Lizard Island, collected by Mr. M'Gillivray. 

 457 species of Plants of Tasmania, collected and presented by Dr. Milligan. 

 128 species of Algae of Tasmania, from the Rev. P. Parry Fogg. 

 190 spieces of Plants of Sierra Leone, from various collectors. 

 162 species of Plants from the River Zambesi, collected by the Rev. J. Stewart. 

 1,365 species of Plants of the Cape of Good Hope, fiom various collectors. 

 27 species of Algae, collected at Algoa Bay. 



87 species of Plants of Madagascar, cullected by M. Helsinberg. 

 340 species of Cryptoiiamous Plants of South Carolina, collected by Mr. Ravenal. 

 218 species of plants of Panama, collected by Mr. Sutton Hayes. 

 80 species of plants of Jamaic;i, presented by the representatives of Henry Osborne, Esq. 

 18 species of Plants of Peru, from the mountains of tlie province of Iquique, collected 

 by Mr. Bollaert, 



250 species of Composiice from Chili, collected by Dr. Gillies. 

 100 Microscopic Slides of species of Diatomacee, prepared by Mr. Baker. 

 The British Herbarium of Dr. Puheney. 



The Herbarium of Plants of South Carolina, formed by Mr. Walter, author of the "Flora 

 of Soutii Carolina." 



450 species of fruits and seeds from Panama, collected by iVlr. Sutton Hayes. 

 Fine transverse sections of the trunks of the While Oak {Quercus alba, L.) and of the 

 Black Walnut {.luglans nigra, L.), presented by the Commissioners for Canada to the 

 International Exhibition. 



Numerous Palm-seeds and fruits, collected in Camboja, Ceylon, Labuan, and Mauritius. 



John J. Bennett. 



