38 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MtJSEU 



M. 



b. British Herbarium. 



Phanerogamla. 



A large Herbarium of British Plants, including the plants enumerated in the " Flora 

 of Middlesex," consisting of about 3,000 sheets ; presented by Dr. Triraen. 

 100 species, presented by the Rev. J. C. Elliott. 

 50 „ of rare and critical Irish plants ; collected and presented by A. G. More, 



Esq. 

 Specimens of Lnthrjea from the Rev, W. Fox. 



„ Carex punctata from Pembrokeshire : presented by C. Bailey, Esq. 



Cryptogamia. 



50 species from Oxford, forming part of Baxter's " Stirpes Cryptogamicfe Oxon." 



10 „ of recently-determined British Mosses ; presented by C P. Hobkirk, Esq. 



Specimens of Sphagnum Mulleri ; presented by Dr. Braithwaite^ 



100 species of Fu-ngi ; collected and prepared by J. English. 



100 „ Sphajria; collected and named by C. B. Plowright. 



450 ,, Lichens; collected by the Rev. J. M. Crombie. 



100 „ „ from Wales; collected and named by the Rev. TV. A. 



Leighton. 



II. — To the Structvral Series. 



a. Fruit Collection. 



Fruit of Hoematocarpus Thomsoni; presented by J. Miers, Esq. ' 

 Fruit of Pandanus from New Caledonia, collected by Pancher. 

 2 Cucurbitaceous Fruits from Mexico. 



b. General Collection. 



Stems of Styrax, Nicotinna, and Ferula ; i:)resented by M. Moggridge, Esq. 



Stems of Phoenix, Pandnims and Cycas, from Travancore. 



2 Palm (Kcntia) stems and two Fern stems from New Caledonia, collected by Pancher. 



69 specimens of woods, from New Caledonia, collected by Pancher. 

 2 stems of Hemltella, collected by R. Trimen, Esq. 



Specimens, dissections, and drawings of Apodanthcs, Langsdorffia, and Helosis, pre- 

 sented by J. Miers, Esq. 



90 preparations illustrating the structure and fructification of British Fungi, prepared 

 by M. C. Cooke. 



III. — To the Fossil Series. 



122 Sections of Carboniferous Fossils, prepared by J. T. Norman. 



4 fossil fruits from the Miocene of Corfe, Dorset. 



2 specimens of fossil wood from the Crag of Sussex. 

 Specimen of a rave fossil Cycad ManteUia pygmcea. 



Portion of a trunk, about 40 ft. long and 4 ft. in diameter of Araucarioxylon, from 

 Craiglelth quarry, near Edinburgh ; presented by T. S. Hunter, Esq. through Sir 

 Robert Christison, Bart. 



Section of a small stem of Araucarioxylon; presented by Professor Balfour. 

 2 specimens of Coniferous wood from the chalk ; presented by H. Carr, Esq. 

 Specimens of wood in flint and chalk, and two specimens of fossil Charas. 

 12 specimens of fossil plants presented by Sir Philip Egerton, Bart. 

 Trunk of a Coniferous tree converted into jet, from Spain. 



The number of visits paid during the year to the Herbarium for the purpose of 

 scientific research, was 1,020. The following foreign botanists may be specified as 

 having used the Herbarium in prosecuting their various studies: — Berggren of Stockholm, 

 for his work on the plants of Greenland ; Relchenbach of Hamburg, for his work on 

 Onlddacea ; MIchell of Geneva, for his memoir on Onagraries, ; and Dr. Shaw, of 

 Colesberg, South Africa, for his investigations into mosses, and South African plants. Of 

 botanists residing in Britain, who have made use of the Herbarium, the following may 

 be specified : — Mr. J. Miers for his monographs of the Lecythideoe and Apocynece ; Mr. 

 G. Bentham, for his " Flora Australiensis "; Mr. W. P. Hiern, for his monograph of the 

 SapindacetB, for the "Indian Flora"; Dr. M. T. Masters, for his memoirs on Malvacece 

 and Oiaciiiea, for the " Indian Flora"; Mr. D. Hanbury, for his investigation of officinal 

 plants ; Mr. E. M. Holmes, for his papers on Algaj and Economic jjlants; Professor M. A. 

 Eawson, for his memoir on Cclastrinece for the " Indian Flora " ; Dr. Braithwaite, for his 

 work on the Mosses of Britain; the Rev. J. M. Crombie, for his publications on British 

 Lichens ; Mr. M. C. Cooke, for his work on Fungi; Mr. B. D. Jackson, for his investi- 

 gations into the History of English Botany. 



I'Villiam Carruthers. 



