36 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Two important collections of drawings of Fungi have become the property of the 

 Trustees during the year. The one is of great critical value, consisting of the orio-inal 

 drawings by Sowerby of his classical work on English Fungi. It has been presented by 

 the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, and comprises 530 original drawings, and copies of .347 plates. 

 The Trustees had already acquired by purchase the models of the Funo-i made by 

 Sowerby in the progress of his work, as well as the original drawings of his "English 

 Botany." By this gift the series of Sowerby's illustrations of the indigenous Flora of 

 Britain, in the British Museum, is completed. The other collection consists of 733 

 orginal coloured drawings of the higher Fungi, made by the late Mrs. Anna Russell of 

 Kenilworth, and bequeathed by her to the Museum. These drawings are of especial 

 • value, as they represent Avith singular fidelity the form and colour of a group of plants 

 which at the best are very imperfectly represented in Herbaria. The two collections, 

 with the large series of drawings by Mr. W. G. Smith, acquired in 1875, have beeu 

 incor[)orated into one series. 



The following are the pi'incipal additions to the collections of the Department during 

 the year 1875 : — 



A large series of desiderata from the Herbarium of J. G. Baker, Esq. 



281 species of Phanerogaraia and Ferns, and 80 species of Lichens; collected by Dr. 

 I. B. Balfour, in the Island of Rodriguez, during ihe Transit Expedition; presented by 

 the Council of the Royal Society. 



80 species of freshwater Algae, and 44 species of Lichens ; collected by the Rev. 

 A.E.Eaton, in Kerguelen's Land, during the Transit Expedition; jwesented by the 

 Council of the Royal Society. 



294 species of plants from the Island of I'omnosa ; collected and presented by the Rev. 

 W. Campbell, of Taiwanfoo, Formosa. 



200 species of plants from New Zealand ; collected by Dr. Hector. 



160 species and varieties of Palms from the Amazon region ; collected and presented 

 by Dr. Trail. 



3 species of Palms from Bourbon ; collected and presented by Dr. I. B. Balfour. 



149 species of plants from False Bav, Cape of Good Hope ; collected and presented by 

 Dr. Hahn. 



60 species of flowering plants from the neighbourhood of Godhavn, Greenland; col- 

 lected and presented by Captain Fielden. 



107 species of Orchideae, named by Professor Reichenbach. 



99 species of plants from Egypt ; collected and presented by H. A. Hurst, Esq. 

 237 species of plants from Southern Europe ; collected and named by Huter. 



A collection of plants from ihe /\ssyr Mounlains, in the Yemen^ Arabia, through the 

 Rev. A. B. Millington. 



20 varieties of Nepenthes, cultivated and presented by H. J. Veitch, Esq. 



59 species of freshwater Algae and 80 species of Lichens, from the Cape of Good Hope ; 

 collected and pi-esented by the Rev. A. Ei. Eaton. 



500 species of Fungi ; collected and named by Thuemen. 



400 species of Fungi ; collected and named by Saccardo. 



100 species of Fungi ; collected and named by Hehm. 

 59 preparations of Cape Algce, by Dr. Reinsch. 



Specimens have also been contributed to the Hci'barium by Lord Walsingham, Sir 

 P. de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart. ; Sir W. C. Trevelyan, Bart. ; Messrs. R. A. Pryor, 

 J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, F. M. Webb, A. Ciaig Christie, M. Moggridge, E. M. Holmes, 

 T. Howse. H. Groves, C. Packe, and Professor T. R. Jones. 



Figures of 2,991 species of plants have been added to the collection of Botanical 

 . Illustrations during the year 



The number of visits paid during 1876 to the Herbarium for scientific inquiry or 

 research was 1,237. The following foreign botanists may be specified as having used 

 the Herbarium in prosecuting their various studies : — Professor Cohn, of Breslau, for his 

 works on Cryptogamic Botany ; Dr. Baillon, of Paris, for his works on Systematic 

 Botany; Professor Reichenbach, of Hamburg, for his Memoirs on Orchidece; Dr. Bauke, 

 of Berlin, for his investigations in the minute Fungi ; M. C. de Candolle, for his Mono- 

 graph of the J\J(Uace(S ; and Professor von Ettingshausen, of Gratz, for his investigations 

 on Fossil Plants. Among British Botanists, the following may be specified : — Professor 

 Bentley, in connection Avith Bentley and Trimen's " Medicinal Plants ;" Mr. Holmes, 

 Curator of the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society, for his investigations in con- 

 nection with Medicinal Plants; General Munro, for his Monograph of the Graminece; 

 Mr. W. P. Hiern, for his work on the RubiacecB of the " Flora of Tropical Africa ;" Mr. 

 Bentham, for his "Flora Australiensis ;" Dr. Trail, for his work on the Palms of the 

 Amazon Region ; Dr. I. B. Balfour, for his work on the Flora of the Island of Rodriguez ; 

 Mr. J. G. Baker, for his Monograph of the LiliacecB ; Dr. Masters, for his work on the 

 liestiacea; Mr. Duthie, for the Myrtacscn of the "Flora of British India;" the Rev. 

 J. M. Crombie, Mr. Labalestier, and Mr. Joshua, for their investigations into the 

 Lichens of Britain ; Mi . Broome and Mr. Howse, for British Fungi ; Rev. W. W. New- 

 bould, Mr. B. D. Jackson, Mr. Pryor, Mr. Mansel-Pleydell, Mr. Webb, Mr. Glasspoole, 

 Mr. Townsend, Mr. Churchill, and Mr. Stratton, for their critical study of European 

 and British Plants ; Dr. Braithwaite and Mr. Holmes, for the study of British Mosses ; 

 and Mr. J. S. Gardner, for the study of the Tertiary Plants of Hampshire. 



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