ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 39 



From India Museum : — 

 A stone from Gurram-Konda, Madras (a new fall). 



By E. N. Wiusloic, Esq. : — 

 An iron from Shingle Springs, Eldorado Co., California (a new foil). 



Sy Purchase and Exchange: — 

 Larger specimens of the Goalpara and Klein-Menow stones. 

 A whole stone of the Khairpur fall. 



A stone from Dyalpur, Oude ; fell 8th May 1872 (a new fall). 

 A stone from Siiathali, Rajpootanah (a new fall). 



A stone from Judesegeri, Mysore ; fell 16th February 1876 (a new fall). 

 A stone from Nageria, Agra; fell 27th October 1876 (a new fall). 

 A stone from Elba ? 



A stone from Stalldalen, Sweden; fell 28th January 1876 (a new fall). 

 Small stones 'of the Knyahinya fall. 



An iron mass which fell at Nedagolla, Vizagapatam ; 23rd January 1870 (a new fall). 

 A piece of the iron found at Santa Catherina, Brazil. 

 The number of meteoric falls at present represented in the collection is 322. 



Nevil Story-Maskelyne. 



Department of Botany. 



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

 on during the past year. In its progress the plants of the following Natural Orders 

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

 CaprifoUaceoc, Ruhiacea, Campaniilacea, Stylidece, Goodenoviecs, Epacridacece, Plumba- 

 ginetz, Primulacea, ApocynacecB, Asclepiadacea, Sapotacece, Selaginece, Myoporine(Z, Filic.es, 

 and Fungi. 



The following collections have been either entirely or in part incorporated in the 

 General Herbarium : — The plants of Eastern Tropical Africa, collected by Dr. Hilde- 

 brandt; of Rodriguez, by Dr. I. B. Balfour (in the " Transit of Venus " expedition); of 

 "West Tropical Africa, by Kalbreyer ; of Lake Nyassa, by Simons ; of North Eastern 

 Asia, by AJaximowicz ; of Hong Kong, by the Kev. J. Lament ; of Australia, by Amalia 

 Dietrich ; of Martinique, by Hahn ; of the voyage of H. M. S. " Sulphur," by Barclay ; 

 of the voyage of H, M. S. " Challenger," by Moseley. In addion to these, large series of 

 plants by various collectors, of the oxA%x& . Ruhianta, ConLpositce, Filices, Fungi, Algce, 

 and Lichenes, have been incorporated with the General Herbarium. 



The principal additions during the past year have been two extensive Herbaria ; the 

 one, the general Herbarium of the late It. J. Shuttleworth, of Berne ; the other, the Her- 

 barium of HepaticcE formed by Dr. Hampe. The Shuttleworth Herbarium consists of 

 more than 150^000 labelled specimens of Phanerogams, and over 20,000 of Cryptogams, 

 from all parts of the world, a very large proportion of which will be valuable additions 

 to the Museum collection, while the duplicates will be made into sets for exchange. 

 Several important herbaria are Incorporated in the Shuttleworth Herbarium ; the most 

 valuable of them is the Herbai'Iuni of Roemer, the joint author with Schultes, of an edition 

 of Linnaeus' " Systema Vegetabilium." This Herbarium contains not only the types 

 of the plants described by Roemer, but also numerous specimens communicated by his 

 contemporaries of the novelties described by them. The European portion of the Shut- 

 tleworth Herbarium includes the extensive collections formed by Shuttleworth himself in 

 Central Europe ; by Frivaldsky, in Turkey ; Richter, in Hungary ; Mabille and Debeaux, 

 in Corsica ; Bourgeau, in the Balearic Islands and the Spanish Pyrenees ; Willkomm, 

 in the south of Spain ; besides the published collections of Reichenbach, Fries, Huet 

 du Pavilion, &c. &c. Numerous critical notes by Shuttleworth greatly enhance the value 

 of many of these specimens. The plants of the Mediterranean region are represented by 

 collections from Algiers, by Auzendi and others; from Egypt, by Du Parquet; from the 

 Levant, by Aucher-Eloy and Kotschy ; and from Rhodes, by Bourgeau. After the 

 European collections, Shuttleworth devoted much attention to the plants of North 

 .America ; and he has amassed a very large series, especially from the Southern States, 

 collected by Lindheimer, Beyrich, Fendler, Blodgett, but especially by Rugel, whose 

 extensive collections, all carefully worked out and annotated by Shuttleworth, are a very 

 valuable addition to the Museum Herbarium. The American collections include also 

 the plants of Jurgensen, Hartweg, and Berlandier, from Mexico: ot Htstmann, Linden, 

 Gardner, Jameson, Matthews, and others from South America. The Asiatic portion of 

 the Herbarium contains a very fine and extensive series of the plants of Zollinger, from 

 Java and Japan; of Kollmann, from Java; of Cuming, from the Philippines; of For- 

 tune, from China ; of Walker and Lobb, from Singapore ; of Campbell, Christie, Heifer, 

 and "W'allich, from India ; and of Karelin and Kiriloff, from Songaiia. From Africa, 

 there are the plants of Schimper and Kotschy, from Nubia and Abyssinia ; of Brunner, 

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