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Very fine o-roujied crystals of bright red and of pale Roselitc in a oavernons quartz 

 and clialcedonic matrix { and specimens of Walpurgite and of Zeunerite, all from the 

 White Hart Mine, Schneeberg, Saxony ; fine Cuprouranites and Calcouranites, near 

 Redruth, CornAvall, and Wiserine from the grey gneiss of the upper part of the Binnenthal, 

 Switzerland. 



JVevil Stori/-Ma skehjne . 



Department of Botany. 



The work of incorporating plants in the General Herbarium has been actively carried 

 on during the past year. In its progress, the folloM'ing Natural Orders have been greatly 

 increased, and more or less completely re-arranged : DilleniacecB, M<(gnoUacf(P, Alenhper- 

 macece, BerheridecB, Crucifercc, RittacecE, Sapbidaccce, Saxifrar/acea;, Cucurbitacece, 

 jRubiacece, Conipositce, Solanacecp, Lahiata, Acanthacea, Scrophularinece, Orchidacece, 

 TMidcece, Murantacea, Amaryllidacece, Cyperaceo', Gramineas, Lycopodiacecc, FiJices, 

 Liclienes, and Fungi. 



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

 General Herbarium. The plants of Aden, the Somali Country, and Zanzibar, collected 

 by Dr. Hildebrandt ; of Madagascar, by Kilsenberg, Bojer, and Thompson ; of Mauri- 

 tius, by Aublet and lloxburgh ; of Asia Minor, by Kotschy ; of India, by Hooker and 

 Thomson; of the Himalayas, by Strachey and Winterbottom ; of Hong Kong, by the 

 Rev. James Lamont ; of Japan, by Hughes ; of North America, by Sir John Richard- 

 sou ; and of South America, by Ruiz and Pavon. 



The principal acquisitions of the past year have been the additions made to the crypto- 

 garaic collections. Some of tliese deserve special notice. A large series of Lichens has 

 been obtained from the Herbarium of Dr. Nylander, of Paris ; and the extensive Lichen 

 Herbarium of Isaac Carroll has been purchased, consisting of more than 4,000 specimens, 

 and 260 original drawings ; this is especially rich in Irish specimens, containing many 

 that are rare, and some that are unique, besides a large exotic collection of specimens 

 from Scha^rer, Hepp, and Nylander. 



• But the most important acquisition is the Moss Herbarium of the late William Wilson, 

 of AVarrington, the remaining portion of which was purchased from his executors during 

 the year. Mr. Wilson had devoted his life to the study of Mosses, was the author of' 

 the standard work on " British Mosses," and of numerous memoirs on exotic species. 

 His extensive Herbarium contains the type specimens of those various works, and it 

 abounds in original drawings prepared with singular accuracy, and with manuscript notes 

 of grear critical value. It consists of a collection of British Mosses and Jungermanniea, 

 as well as a collection of foreign specimens of these two Orders. The British Herbarium 

 is accompanied with an extensive correspondence with Muscologists, and includes nume- 

 rous authentic specimens from Dawson Turner, Th. Taylor, Sir William Hookei', and 

 other authors of species. 



Mr. Wilson's Herbarium of foreign Mosses contains type specimens from the Herbaria 

 of Montague, Bruch, Schimper, Angstrom, Mougeot, Zetterstedt, Hooker, Arnott, the 

 Paris Museum, &c. Besides this Herbarium there are many separate collections, 

 of which the following may be specified : — ^The sets of Mosses employed by Wilson in 

 preparing the descriptions of Drummond's ]\losse3 of the Southern United States ; of 

 Captain Sir J. C. Ross's Antarctic Expedition ; and of Seemann's Voyage of the 

 " Plerald." Collections from Europe by Schimper, Bartsch, Bruch, Gottsche, Mougeot, 

 Nestler, Angstrom, Zetterstedt, Spruce, Carroll, &c. ; from Asia, by Wallich, Wight, 

 Strachey, Wiuterbottom, Blake, Gough, Gardner, Hookei', Thomson, Walker, Jung- 

 huhn, &c. ; from Africa, by Zeyher (Cape of Good Hope), Bove (Algiers), Vogel (the 

 Niger Expedition), Salwey (Madeira), Webb and Lemann (Canary Isles): from New 

 Zealand, by Colenso, Bolton, Sinclair, Bidwill, Joliffe, Knight, Buchanan, &c. ; from 

 Tasmania, by Gunn, Lyall, Oldfield, &c. ; from the Pacific Isles, by Beechey and Bid- 

 will ; from North America, by Parker, Johnstone, Nuttall, Lea, Sullivant, Greene, Scouler, 

 Tainturier, &c. ; from Jamaica, by McFadyen, Purdie, Wilson, and McNab ; from New 

 Granada, by Purdie ; Peru, by Matthews and Cuming ; Brazil, by Gillies, Mund, and 

 Douglas : Cape Horn, by Davies ; and Terra del Fuego, by Darwin. The exotic 

 Jungermanni('(B contain specimens from Dr. Taylor of the species of Sir J. C. Ross's 

 Antarctic Voyage, described by him ; from Sullivant, Drummond, Jameson, and others. 



In addition to the important Cryptogamic acquisitions now specified, the following are 

 the principal additions to the collections of the Department during the year 1874: — 



I. — To the Herbarium. 



a. General Herbarium. 



Phanerogamia. 



506 species collected on the Island of Hong Kong, and presented by the Rev. Jas. 

 Lament. 



240 species from Southern Europe; collected by Rngel. 



148. F 264 species 



