40 ACCOUNTS, Sec, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



from Senegal, and the Cape Verde Islands, and of Drege, Krauss, and others, fi'om South 

 Africa. The Australian collections comprise the plants of Drummond, Preiss, Sieber, 

 and others. Several large genera, like Hieracium and Salix, and several natural orders, 

 as CyperacecB, Graminece, and Filices, have received special attention, and are represented 

 by a carefully named and often extensively annotated series of specimens. The Crypto- 

 gams include the collections of Schserer, Desmazieres, Mougeot and Nestler, Kiitzing, 

 Crome, Rugel, Braun, Schmidt and Kunze, Wartmann and Schenk, Salwey, and many 

 others. 



The herbarium of Hepaticce formed by Dr. Hanij)e is not only very extensive, con- 

 sisting of upwards of 6,000 labelled specimens, but it contains a very large proportion of 

 authentic specimens, either the types of species described by Dr. Hampe or communicated 

 by the describcrs, from all parts of the world : the whole collection is arranged according 

 to Lindenberg and Gottsche's " Synopsis Hej^aticarum." 



Sets of the plants collected during the recent Government expeditions of the " Challen- 

 ger ;" of the "Discovery" and "Alert," in the Arctic regions; and of the " Transitof 

 Venus " expedition to Rodriguez and Kerguelen's Land, have been received from the 

 Lords of the Admiralty and the Council of the Royal Society, and incorporated in the 

 Herbarium. 



Valuable additions have been made to the Structural Collections by presentation from 

 the Royal Gardens, Kew; A. Robertson Luxford, Esq., and Dr. Selah Merrill. 



Progress has been made in the separation of the study set of Robert Brown's 

 Herbarium, and of the set of Tropical African plants i'rom the Herbarium of Dr. VVel- 

 witsch. 



Extensive and important additions have been made during the year to the series of 

 drawings and engi-avings of plants. Among them may be specially noted 180 original 

 drawings by Ehret, the best botanical artist of his day ; a valuable series of original 

 drawings of Indian plants by Dr. de Crespigny; and 654 drawings by Chinese artists of 

 Chinese plants, executed under the superintendence of the late John Reeves, Esq., and 

 presented by Miss Reeves. Besides these, 7,287 published engravings of plants have 

 been added to the collection. 



Large additions have been made to the British Herbarium during the year. The col- 

 lection of Lake Lancashire plants, formed by the late Miss Hodgson, illustrating her 

 published flora of that district, has been incorporated, together with specimens collected 

 by Robert Brown from 1791 to 1795 ; Mr. J. G. Baker, Mr. R. A. Pryor, Mr. E. M. 

 Holmes, the Messrs. Groves, Mr. J. C. Melvill, Mr. T. R. A. Briggs, Mr. T. Howse, 

 Mr. M. Moggridge, and many others. The systematic arrangement in one series of the 

 extensive collection of original drawings of British Fungi by Sowerby, W. G. Smith, 

 and IMrs. Russell, has been completed. The specimens of British Fungi have been re- 

 arranged, and considerable progress has been made in laying down the British series of 

 Mosses in the Wilson Herbarium. 



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

 research, was 1,297. The following foreign botanists may be specified as having used the 

 Herbarium in connection with their various studies : — MM. Boissier and C. De Candolle, 

 of Geneva ; Count Castracane, of Rome ; M. Bommer, of Brussels ; and Senor Vidal, of 

 Manila. Of British Botanists, the following may be specified: — Mr. \V. P. Hiern, Mr. 

 Geo. Bentham, Dr. M. T. Masters, Genl. Munro, Dr. I. B. Balfour, Rev. J. M. 

 Crombie, Mi-. J. G. Baker, Mr. C. B. Clarke, Professor Bentley, Dr. Braithwaite, Mr. 

 B. D. Jackson, Mr. Larbalestier, Mr. Howse, Mr. E. M. Holmes, Mr. J. C. Mausel-Pley- 

 dell, Mr. M. M. Hartog, Mr. A. VV. Bennett, Mr. F. Townsend, Mr. Joshua, Mr. R. A 

 Pryor, Mr. F. C. S. Roper, Mr. C. Packe, the Messrs. Groves, Mr. G. S. Boulger, and 

 the Rev. W. W. Newbould. 



IVm. Carruthers. 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 



The following catalogues have been published. The third volume of the " Catalogue 

 of Satirical Prints and Drawings," by Mr. Stephens, which it has been found con- 

 venient to divide into two parts. 



The "Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and other Cards" by Dr. Willshire. The 

 first and supplementary volumes have been bound together as one work, which also 

 includes twenty-four plates and other illustrations. 



The collection of proofs and prints by French engravers has been arranged in six 

 -volumes and six portfolios, and an index of the artists' names has been prepared. 



The collection of proofs and prints by English engravers has been re-arranged in six 

 portfolios, and an index of the artists' names, accompanied by a chronological list, has 

 been prepared. 



The works of Robert Nanteuil, the eminent French engraver, have been re-arranged 

 according to the catalogue in Dumesnil's "Peintre-Graveur Francais," vol. iv., the recent 

 additions being incorpoi-ated and marked off in the same. 



The collection of prints after Murillo and Velazquez has been arranged according to 

 the late Sir William Stirling Maxwell's catalogue of their works ; an index has also been 

 prepared of the engravers' names mentioned in the latter. 



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