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Specimens of crystallised Cassiterite, Queensland, Australia; Manganositc, Langban, 

 Wermland, Sweden. 



Large specimens of Aragonite, Herrngrund, Hungary ; and with Native Sulphur from 

 Girgenti, Sicily ; a very lai-ge crystal of Iceland Spar partly encrusted with stilbite, 

 Rodefibrd, Iceland ; Calcites, Alston, Cumberland ; Cerussites from various localities 

 in Spain ; Calclte pseudomorphoui- after Aragonite, Girgenti, Sicily ; Hornblende and 

 Augite crystals, Nordmarken, Wermland, Sweden ; Apophyllite on quartz, the St. 

 GottJKird Tunnel, Switzerland; granular massive Thulite, Lervikcn, Norway; Epidotes 

 from various localities in Sweden ; large polished slab of Labradorite, Labrador; a large 

 specimen of crystallised Orthoclase, Alabaschka, Mursinsk, Ural; fine and large crystals 

 of Amazon-sione (Microcline), from Pike's Peak, Colorado, U. S. A. ; a large amygdule 

 of Natrolite, Salesel, Bohemia; and Scolecite, Syhadree Mountains, Bombay. 



Extremely large crystals of Pyi'osmalite, Nordmarken, Wermland, Sweden; crystallised 

 Xanthophyllite, Slatoust, Urals, Orenburg; specimens of Karyinite, GaTionialite, 

 Ekdennite, and Mangauophyllite, Langban, Wermland, Sweden ; Nohlite and Biom- 

 strandite, Nohl, Sweden ; and Huminite, Nullaberget, Sweden. 



Black Tourmalines, Pierrepont, St. Lawrence Co., New York, U.S.A.; brown 

 Tourmaline, Gouverneur, St. LaAvrence Co., New York, U.S.A. 



Hjelmite, Kararfvet, near Fahlun, Sweden ; crystallised Euxenites, Arendal, Norway ; 

 Ixiolite, Skogbole, Finland ; Tapiolite, Sukkula, Finland. 



Wulfenite, Wheatley mines, Pennsylvania, U.S A. ; fine Crocoisites, Beresowsk, Ural. 



Specimens of Henwoodite and Chalcosiderite, West Wheal Phoenix, near Liskeard, 

 Cornwall ; Scorodites, Dornbach, near Montabaur, Nassau ; Cacoxene, Weilburg, Nassau; 

 Kiihnite and Spodiosite, Langban, Wermland, Sweden. 



A collection of Rocks illustrative of certam localities in the Transvaal, South Africa. 



A series of the Lavas of Vesuvius. 



A series of the Rocks of New Zealand. 



The new Meteorites added to the Collection are, besides the Rowton iron, specimens 

 representing the Falls of Nash County, N. C, of May 14, 1874 ; of Waconda, Kansas : 

 and of Claywater, Wisconsin, that fell on March 26, 1865. 



Nevil Story-Maskelyne. 



Department of Botany. 



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

 oil during the past year. The large additions made in 1873 to the Cabinets for the Her- 

 barium afl^orded accommodation for the collections that have since been incorporated; but 

 the crowded state of the Herbarium has required another large addition of 93 Cabinets 

 during the year, and the erection of a temporary gallery in one of the rooms for the 

 accommodation of the collection of Cellular Cryptogams. The whole Herbarium has 

 consequently been redistributed, and room has been secured for further additions. 



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

 been greatly increased, and more or less completely re-arranged : — L^g7/minosce, 

 Rosaiece, RuhiacecB, Contpositce, ConvulculacecB, Scrophularinece, LabiatcB, Euphorbiacece, 

 Chenopodiacece, Orchidecs, and Gruminea. 



The folloAving collections have been either entirely or in part systematically arranged, 

 and inserted in their places in the General Herbarium : — Plants from Troj^ical Africa, 

 collected and named by Dr. Schweinfurth ; from the Island of Rodriguez, collected by 

 Dr. I. B. Balfour; from China, by the Rev. James Lament and F. B. Forbes, Esq.; 

 from Australia, by Menzies, Collie, and Paterson ; from New Zealand, by Dr. Hector ; 

 from Oregon, by Geyer ; from Mexico, by Schiede and Feudler ; from Chili, by Reed ; 

 and from Tropical South America, by Claussen and Linden. 



Two very valuable collections of plants have been acquired by the Trustees during the 

 year, viz. : — The study set of Robert Brown's great Herbarium of Australian plants, and 

 the second set of the plants collected in Tropical Africa by the late Dr. Welwitsch. 



Mr. Brown's Herbarium was the property of the late J. J. Bennett, formerly keeper of 

 the Botanical Department of the Museum. The first, or study set, together with all the 

 notes and manuscripts of Mr. Brown, has been presented to the Museum by Mr. Bennett's 

 widow, in accordance with his instructions. Considerable progress has been made in the 

 separation of the study set. 



Di-. Welwitsch, by his will, required his executors to ofier the study set of his African 

 plants to the Trustees, at the price of tv\o pounds ten shillings per hundred. The executors 

 were stopped carrying out the provisions of the will through the action of the King of 

 Portugal, and a bill was filed in Chancery claiming the whole collection as the property of 

 the Crown of Portugal. After a lengthened and expensive litigation, the case was termi- 

 nated by a compromise, which secured to the Trustees the next best set after the study 

 set, with copies of the original notes and descriptions, at the cost only of separation and 

 transcription. The work of separating and ti'anscribing is being diligently prosecuted, 

 and this important series of plants is becoming available to men of science. 



The Moss Herbarium of James Dickson, which contains the types of the species 

 described by him in his " Fasc. PI. Crypt. Britann.," has been acquired from his daughter. 



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