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named and mounted, but which for want of cabinet space were crowded out of the Her- 

 barium proper. The work of incorporating all these plants has been actls'ely carried on, 

 and has made considerable progress. 



In the later months of the year the Exhibition Rooms were closed to the public for the 

 purpose of having them cleaned and painted. Advantage has been taken of the neces- 

 sary removal of a large proportion of the exhibited collections to re-arrange them, and to 

 introduce several changes with the view of making the Exhibition Rooms more instruc- 

 tive and attractive to visitors. Among these changes, Avhich are yet in progress, the 

 following may be specified : — The re-arrangement in a more strictly systematic method 

 of the specimens exhibited in the wall cases, thereby giving the student in a continuous 

 series a view of the principal modifications and characteristics of the great natural 

 divisions of the vegetable kingdom. The exhibition of an extensive series of specimens of 

 the natural Order Proteacece, an Order selected because it is not only well defined from 

 the natural Orders allied to it, but contains within itself a great variety of habit and 

 foliage, and because it is believed to have formed an important element in the extinct 

 Tertiary Floras of Europe, though now almost confined to the southern hemisphere. A 

 case has been devoted to parasitic plants, in which is placed a fine series of Balunophorece, 

 Rafflesiacece, &c., and an extensive collection of mistletoe on oak and other trees, pre- 

 sented by the Rev. Robert Blight: many of these specimens are prepared so as to 

 show the relation of this parasite to the supporting i:)lants. A series of microscopic pre- 

 parations of fossil plants, selected partly from the collection bequeathed by Robert 

 BroAvn, and partly from the specimens subsequently acquired by the Trustees, have been 

 exhibited, so as to show their minute structure by the help of light reflected from mirrors. 

 The exquisite water-colour drawings of Australian plants by Ferdinand Bauer, the com- 

 panion of Robert Brown in his expedition to Australia, have been carefully placed in 

 sunk mounts, so as to preserve from injury these luiique and unsurpassed productions, 

 and a selection from them has been framed, and placed on the walls of the first public 

 room. 



Besides this more genei'al work in the Herbarium and the Public Rooms, the principal 

 business done in the Department during the year 1871 has consisted in the re-arrange- 

 ment in the General Herbarium of the UmheUiferce, ^ricacea, Pulygonacea, Juncacea, 

 Diatomacece, Desmidiece, and Fu7igi. 



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

 plants made in Morocco by Durand, and in Tunis by Kralik, the nomenclature of which 

 ■was critically revised by M. Cosson during his visits to the Herbariiun ; of an extensive 

 collection of plants from Yucatan, forme d by Dr. Arthur Schott ; and of Portuguese 

 plants gathered by the late Daniel Sharpe. 



In the re-arrangement in the British Herbarium of the LcguminoscB) Umbellifera, 

 PrimulacecB, Polygonacea, and Lichenes. 



The followin are the principal additions made to the collections of the Department 

 -during the year 1871 : — 



I. — 2'o the Herbarium. 



General Herbarium. 



Phanerogamia. 



168 Species of plants, forming Schultz's " Herbarium Florae Istriacae." 

 105 „ „ from Portugal; collected by D. Sharpe. 



53 „ „ from Madeira ; collected by C. Lemann. 



17,000 „ „ chiefly from Central Europe, Alsace, the Jura, the Lower 



Rhine, Spain, the Songarei in the Ural territory, Mexico, and 

 Labrador, being the Herbarium of Auerswald, of Leipsig. 

 1,000 „ „ from Yucatan ; collected by Dr. Arthur Schott. 



50 „ „ from Scandinavia ; collected by Dr. Zetterstedt. 



200 „ „ from Sicily, forming fasc. 11 and 12 of Todaro's "Flora 



Sicula." 

 1,030 „ „ from Russia ; collected by Gruner, Bunge, &c. 



185 „ „ from the island Swatoi, in the Caspian Sea ; collected by Dr. 



Bruhns. 

 556 „ „ from the country around Catherinslau ; collected by Dr. 



Gruner. 

 378 „ „ from Uman ; collected by Dr. Golde. 



371 „ „ from Woronetz ; collected by Dr. Gruner. 



253 „ Composit£e, forming Schultz's " Cichoriaceotheca." 



400 „ plants from North Africa ; collected by Col. Paris. 



323 „ „ from Malaya ; collected by the late Dr. Maingay. 



1,625 „ „ from Scandinavia ; collected by Ahlberg. 



272 „ Salix ; collected by Wimmer. 



62 „ plants from Lower Egypt ; collected and presented by Messrs. 



Calvert and Hurst. 

 17 „ „ from St. Helena ; presented by J. C. MelHss, Esq. 



164, E 219 Species 



