'j6 ACCOUNTS. tfiC, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Sea; Witherites, Fallowfield mine, near Hexham, Northumberland; and Aurichalcite, 

 Morawicza, Banat, Hungary 



Phenakite, Framont, Vosges; Augites and Chondrodltes, Nya Kopparberget, Sweden; 

 Glaucophane in crystals, Zermatt, Switzerland ; large crystallized and massive specimens 

 of Gadolinite and Orthite, Ytterby, Sweden; Apophyllite in crystals distributed on 

 Amethyst, Yalenciana mine, (xuanaxuato, Mexico; Topaz with albite, Mursinsk, Urals; 

 Andalusite in I'ounded pebbles, some transparent, Brazil; a vase of Jadeite; Daualite in 

 granite, Eockport, Massachusetts, U.S.A.; Myeline, Rochlitz, Saxony; Heulanclite, 

 Maderanerthal, Switzerland; vei'y large crystals of Pyrosmalite, Nordmarken, Werm- 

 land, Sweden; and Tourmaline in long slender crystals traversing quartz, Brazil. 



Perofskite and Koppite with Magnesoferrite and Apatite in limestone, Schelingen, 

 Kaiserstuhl, Baden; Tantalitc, Finland; Yttrotantalite, Ytterby, Sweden: Euxenite, 

 Tromoe, near Arendal, Norway; a crystal of Samarskite, Ilmen Mountains, Urals; 

 Schorlomite, Oberschaff'hausen, Kaiserstuhl, Baden. 



Anglesite, Carthagena, Spain; Zippeite, Wheal Edward, St. Just, Cornwall; well- 

 crystallised Lauarkite, Leadhills, Lanarkshire; Wiserines, Binnenthal, Switzerland; 

 Symplesite with Gersdorffite, Lobenstein, Thuringia; Wapplerite, Schneeberg, Saxony; 

 Veszelyite, Morawicza, Banat, Hungai-y; Chalcosiderite, West Phoenix mine, near 

 Liskeard, Cornwall; Pharmacosiderite, Herrengrund, Hungary; Vivianite, Cornwall; 

 Barrandite, Cerhovice, Bohemia; Xenotime, Ytterby, Sweden; Beudantite, Montabaur, 

 near Dernbach, Nassau. 



Meteokites. 



Beuste, near Pau, Basses Pyrenees, France - - - - Fell May 1859. 



Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France ------ ^^ Jan. 3 1822. 



Sanguis, St. Etienne, Basses Pyrenees, France - - - ^^ Sept. 8 1868. 



Tjabe, Padangan, Java - - - - - - - - ,,,,19 1869. 



Ovifak, Disco Island, Greenland ------ Found 1870. 



Jakobshavn „ „ ------ ^^ 1870, 



Oczeretna, Lipowitz, Kiew, Russia ----- Fell 1871, 



Bandong, Java -_-_--._- ^^ Dec. 10 1871. 



Lance, St. Amand de Vendome, Loir-et-Cher - - - - ,, July 23 1872. 



Orvinio, near Rome, Italy ------- ^^ Aug. 31 1872. 



Khairpur, Bhawalpur, India ------- „ Sept. 23 1873. 



West Liberty, Iowa Co., Iowa, U. S. A. - - - - „ Feb. 12 1875. 



Zsadany, Southern Hungary ------- ,, March 31 1875. 



The number of persons visiting the Department for special objects in connection with 

 it, was 1,320. 



Nevil Story-Maskclyne. • 



Depabtment of Botany. 



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

 on during the past year. The following collections have been either entirely or in part 

 systematically arranged and inserted in their places. The large collection of plants 

 bequeathed by the late Rev. R. T. Lowe ; the plants of North Africa, collected by 

 Durand; of the Cape of Good Hope, by Zeyher; of Eastern Tropical Africa, by Hilde- 

 brandt ; of China, by the Rev. James Lamont, and F. B. Forbes, Esq. ; of the Samoan 

 Islands, by Graeffe ; of Chili, by Reed ; of Brazil, by Sello ; and of Panama, by 

 Seemann. 



During the progress of the work of incorporation, the following Natural Orders have 

 been greatly increased, and more or less completely re-arranged : — Ranunculacea, 

 CrucifercE, CapparidecB, Combretacece, Roaacece, MyrticecB, UmbellifercB, Cornposita, Genti- 

 anacecB, Asclepiadacece, Verbenacete, Solan acecB, I'olygonacece and Graminece. 



The following acquisitions deserve special notice : — The portion of the extensive 

 Herbarium of the plants of Madeira and the adjacent Islands, formed by the late Rev. 

 R. T. Lowe, and bequeathed by him to the Trustees. This contains a series of the 

 typical plants of Mr. Lowe's " Manual Flora of Madeira." 



An extensive selection of plants from the Herbarium of the late Professor Nolte, of 

 Kiel, including a considerable number of plants collected by Forskahl, in the East; a 

 complete set of Fries' " Herbarium Normale;" and a number of typical specimens of plants 

 described by Cavanilles,Delile, Thuiliier, Allioni, and others. 



A large collection of Indian ferns, made by Lieut. Colonel Beddome, and employed 

 by him in the preparation oi" his " Ferns of British India." 



A collection of thirteen hundred original drawings of Fungi, made by Mr. W. G. 

 Smith, F.L.S., the great majority of which are finished coloured representations of British 

 species, has been added to the collection of drawings and engravings of plants. The same 

 collection has been Increased by the coloured engravings of upwards of four thousand 

 species of Algaa. 



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