ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. ^y 



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

 the year 1875 : — 



I. — To the Herbarium. 



it. General. Herbarium. 



Phanerogamia, 



200 species of Sicilian Plants ; collected and named by Professor Todaro. 

 255 „ plants from Greece : collected and named by Professor Heldreich. ^ 

 Collections made in Iceland and Scandinavia ; by Isaac Carroll. 



200 species of plants from Kussia ; collected and named by Meinshausen and Golde. 

 488 „ ])lants : from the Tyrol and North Italy. 



1,000 „ Scandinavian plants ; forming the " Herbarium Normale," of Fries. 



1,285 „ plants; from Schles wig Holstein ; collected and named by Hansen. 



73 ,, plants ; from the Oeland Islands. 



A large collection of the species and varieties of Potamogeton, JVajas, and the 

 Batrachian species of Ranunculus ; named by Nolte. 

 611 species of plants ; from Greenland and Iceland. 

 180 „ plants ; collected in the East, by Forskahl. 



254: „ plants ; chiefly Compositoe, from India ; presented by C. B. Clarke, 



Esq. 

 30 „ plants from China ; collected and named by Dr. Hance. 



100 „ plants from Hong Kong ; and, 



201 „ sjjecies from Kiukiang, China; presented by F. B. Forbes, Esq. 

 411 „ plants from Eastern Tropical Africa ; collected by Hildebrandt. 



510 ,, plants from Southern Africa; collected and named by Professor 



M'Owan. 

 82 „ plants from New England ; collected and named by Tuckerman. 



773 „ plants from Chili : collected by E. C. Reed. 



Cryptogamia. 



865 „ the Cryptogamic plants of Europe ; named by Funck. 



100 „ Vascular Cryptogams, from Germany ; named by Professor Reichenbach. 



Herbarium of Indian Ferns ; collected by Lieut. Colonel Beddome. 



60 species of Mosses and Hepaticce ; collected in Brazil by Burchell; presented bj 

 the Rev. W. A. Leighton. 



25 „ Scandinavian Hepaticaj ; collected and named by Lindberg and 



Laekstrom. 



50 „ Mosses from Normandy ; collected and named by Etienne. 



50 „ Hepaticae ; named by Rabenhorst. 



50 „ Mosses ; named by Rabenhorst. 



250 „ Mosses ; collected and named by Blandow. 



276 „ Mosses from Ceylon ; presented by Dr. Thwaites. 



988 „ Lichens from Italy, named by Anzi. 



100 „ „ named by Rabenhorst. 



150 „ „ from North America ; collected and named by Tuckerman. 



667 „ „ New Grenada, being Lindeg's " Study Set." 



169 „ „ Ceylon ; presented by Dr. Thwaites. 



200 „ ,, Germany ; named by Florke. 



200 ,, Norlin's Fennian Lichens, named by Nylander, 



25 „ Characeaj; named by Nordstedt. 



300 „ Scandinavian Alga; ; collected by Areschoug. 



200 „ European Algae ; collected by Jurgen. 



600 „ Ascomycetous Fungi ; collected by Rehm. 



500 „ Fungi ; collected and named by V. Thuemen. 



600 „ Irom Germany ; collected and named by Fuckel. 



b. British Herbarium. 



Plianerogamia. 



473 species of plants, chiefly from Buckinghamshire ; collected and presented by Miss 

 ■Chandler. 



100 „ forming Don's " Herbarium Britannicum." 



A large collection of Irish plants ; made by Isaac Carroll. 



Cryptogamia. 



A collection of Mosses and Alga; made in Ireland ; by I. Carroll. 

 A large Herbarium of Lichens ; formed by the Rev. A. Bloxam. 



100 species of Lichens, from Wales ; collected and named by the Rev. W. A. 

 Leighton. 



130 species of Fungi ; collected and named by C. B. Plowright. 

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