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17 specimens of Dadoxylon and other Fossil Plants from the Carboniferous rocks of 

 Lancashire. 



3 specimens of Coniferous wood from the Tertiary rocks of Greenland; presented by 

 Ed. Whymper, Esq, 



Specimen of a Fossil Fern stem from Queensland ; presented by K. Daintree, Esq. 



3 Fruits from the London Clay ; presented by Jas. Wright, Esq., F.G.S. 



A collection of Fossil Plants from New Zealand, Scotland, &c. ; presented by Dr, 

 Lauder Lindsay. 



The number of visits paid during the year to the Herbarium for scientific inquiry 

 or research was 1,266. The following foreign botanists may be specified as having used 

 the Herbarium in prosecuting their various studies : — Professor Strasburger, of Jena ; 

 Professor Reichenbach, of Hamburg ; Professor Caruel, of Pisa ; Dr. Schweinfurth, of 

 Cairo: and Dr. Farlow, of America. Of British botanists, the following may be 

 specified: — Mr. J. Miers, Dr. M. T. Masters, Professor Lawson, Mr. W. P. Hiern, Mr. 

 D. Hanbury, Dr. Braithwaite, the Rev. J. M. Crombie, Mr. E. M. Holmes, Mr. M. C. 

 Cooke, Mr. A. W. Bennett, Mr. Leo Grindon, Mr. B. D. Jackson, Rev. W. W. New- 

 bould, Mr. R. A. Pry or. 



IViUiam Carruthers. 



Department op Prints and Drawings. 



Considerable progress has been made with the third volume of the Printed Cata- 

 logue of Satirical Prints and Drawings ; all the works of Hogarth have been described, 

 and the allusions in which they abound exhaustively explained ; in this respect the 

 Catalogue will probably leave nothing to be done, and will represent Hogarth com- 

 pletely. The Catalogue of other Avorks is practically finished up to the year 1743, 

 including many hundreds of entries ; and numerous later examples have also been 

 described. This volume will probably be ready for publication about the middle of the 

 current year. 



In consequence of the large number of additional titles required to be written for prints 

 which had previously escaped notice, or been only recently acquired, the publication of 

 the first volume of the Printed Catalogue of Prints and Drawings illustrating events 

 in English History has been delayed beyond the time originally anticipated ; but the 

 whole of the MS. is now fairly in the hands of the pi-inter, and it will be issued in a few 

 months. One thousand and sixtv-three full titles have been written for the same durina: 

 the year. 



All the prints after Italian masters published in series, such as galleries, hitherto col- 

 lected in the department, but not accessible until now for want of space, have been divided 

 to harmonize with Lanzi's classification of local schools, and sorted prior to their final 

 arrangement according to subjects, in eighty-four portfolios ; the prints in each school 

 being temporarily arranged in alphabetical order to simplify reference to them under 

 the masters' names, of which an Index has been prepared, giving references to the 

 cases in which the portfolios are placed. 



The general collection of fine specimens of the works of English engravers in mezzo- 

 tinto has been arranged in chronological order, in twenty-six volumes ; so that, including 

 the Avorks of John Smith, Thomas Frye, Richard Earlom, James Ward, William Say, 

 Charles Turner, David Lucas, Samuel (Jousins, and J. Richardson Jackson, which are 

 in separate sets of volumes, and had for the most part been arranged previously, the 

 whole series now consists of fifty-three volumes. A full descriptive Catalogue of the 

 entire collection has been prepared, giving references to the positions of all the prints 

 described. 



The collection of specimens of the works of foreign engravers in mezzotinto has been 

 arranged in two portfolios ; an alphabetical Index has been prepared of the names, and 

 also a chronological one. 



The fine series of prints from Raffaelle's frescoes in the Loggie of the Vatican, engraved 

 by G. Volpato and G. Ottaviani, and coloured by the former artist, which was purchased at 

 the sale of the Marquis of Salamanca, has been arranged in three large solander cases. 



The prints and etchings described in tlie second volume of the Printed Catalogue of 

 Satirical Prints have been arranged in five solander cases, the references and dates being 

 printed in bistre on each mount. 



The collection of prints after Sir Joshua Reynolds has been re-arranged in twelve 

 volumes, and the references altered in the manuscript catalogue. 



All the prints by Marc Antonio, recently acquired, have been mounted and incorporated, 

 references to Bartsch and Ottley and the register being' affixed to each ; the collection is 

 now increased to eleven cases. 



Five of the old volumes, marked O 1, 2, O 3, O 4, and O 5, containing one thousand 

 and ninety-nine Foreign Portraits described in the inventory of the contents of the Print 

 Room, made in 1837, have been broken up, and the portraits distributed. 



The Drawings by masters of the French School, recently mounted, have been incorpo- 

 rated with the collection, thus increasing the number of cases. 



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