ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 39 



A large crystal of Phosgenite from the Gibbas mine, Sardinia ; Aurichalcite, Monte 

 Poni, Sardinia ; and Moresi: elite, Moresnet, Aix-la-Chapelle. 



Humite in large and fine crystals, Aurora mine, Nya KoiDparberget, Sweden ; Topaz 

 with Cassiterite, Gwinear, Camborne, and with Chalybite from the Wheal Maudlin, 

 Lanlivery, Cornwall ; Epidote in large and brilliant crystals, Knappenwand, Untersulz- 

 bachthal, Salzburg ; Hyalophane, Biunenthal, Switzerland ; Emerald from Habachthal, 

 Salzburg ; Uranotile, Weisser Hirsch mine, Schneeberg, Saxony. 



Barytocelestine, Binnenthal, Switzerland; Dolerophane and Idriocyan, Vesuvius, 

 eruption, 1870. 



A series containing minute but singularly perfect crystals of Boracite from Stassfurth, 

 Magdeburg, Prussia. 



Ehlite on Quartz, Cornwall ; Andrewsite, Cornwall ; Troegerlte, Zeunerite and Wal- 

 purgite from the Weisser Hirsch Mine, Schneeberg, Saxony ; Pucherite, Pucher Mine, 

 Schneeberg, Saxony ; Montebrasite, Montebras, Creuse, France ; Beudantite, Dornbach, 

 Nassau. 



Dopplerite, Aussee, Styria ; Walleriite, Aurora Mine, Nya Kopparberget, Sweden ; 

 Jossaite, Beresowsk, Ural ; Jollyte, Bodenmais, Bavaria ; Kainite, Galicia ; Dewalquite, 

 Ottrez, Belgium. 



Nevil Story- Mashdyne. 



Department op Botany. 



During the past year the woi-k of incorporating in the General Herbarium the plants 

 that had been mounted and named, but from want of cabinet space, had not been 

 inserted in their places, has been actively carried on. Notwithstanding the great addi- 

 tions made for the accommodation of the Herbarium little more than a year ago, the 

 cabinets have already become so crowded as seriously to interrupt this important work. 

 The necessity is becoming more and more pressing of increasing the accommodation for 

 the arranged Herbarium, in order that there may be space not only for the current addi- 

 tions to the collections, but sufficient also for the valuable sets of plants which still 

 remain only partially arranged in the store cabinets of the Department. 



The work of incorporating the extensive additions to the Herbarium which has been 

 carried on during the past year has necessitated the re-arrangeraent of many of the 

 Natural Orders, and the following have accordingly been revised : —Malvacece, Saxifra- 

 gacecB, Kricaceee, EpacridecB, GentianacecB, PolemoniacecB, SolanacecB, Oiobanchacea, 

 GlohulariecB, Graminea, Lycopodiacea, and Fungi. 



The following collections have been either entirely or in part incorporated in the General 

 Herbarium : — The plants of Corsica collected by Mabille ; of the neighbourhood of 

 Odessa, by Rehmann ; of Lebanon, by Captain Burton ; of Persia, by Loftus ; of the 

 Malay Peninsula, by Maingay ; of North Africa, by Paris ; of Abyssinia, by Schimper ; 

 of New Caledonia, by Pancher ; of Oregon, by Hall ; of California, by Hartweg ; of 

 Brazil, by Sello ; of Martinique, by Sieber ; of Demerara, by Appun ; and of Brazil, 

 by Weir. In addition to these, extensive selections have been made from Nuttall's 

 Herbarium of North American plants, from Wallich's, and from Hooker and Thomson's 

 Indian Collections. 



Important contributions having been made during recent years by purchase or pre- 

 sentation to the British Herbarium, the arrangement and critical naming of this valuable 

 collection of British plants has been continued. The following Natural Orders have been 

 carefully examined and re-arranged: — Violacece, Polygalea, Hyperkacece, Malvacea, 

 Linece, Geraniaceae, Euphorhiaccce, Leguminosa, Rosacea, Dipsacece, Composita, Campanu- 

 lacecE, GentianaceiE, Borraginea, Scrophutarinea, FlavtaginecE, Labiatce, Plumbaginea, 

 Polygonaceoi, LiliacecE, and Lichenes. 



The following are the principal additions to the collections of the Department during 

 the year 1872 : — 



I. — To the Herbarium. 



General Herbarium. 



Phanerogamia. 



1800 Species of the rarer plants of France, collected and named by Jordan, Kralik, 

 Grenier, &c. 



650 Species of plants from Castile, Spain, collected by Graells. 



385 „ „ from Northern Italy; collected and named by Cesati, Caruel, 



Savi, &c. 

 34 „ „ collected in Italy, and presented by Dr. Trimen. 



350 „ „ from Corsica ; collected by P. Mabille. 



150 „ „ from Crete; collected by Sieber. 



187 „ „ from Malta and Italy; collected and presented by J. F. Duthie, 



Esq. 

 188. E 4 405 Species 



