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An interesting series of microscopical preparations of British Cellular Cryptogams, 

 formed by i\Ir. W. Joshua, has been acquired. 



To the series of Woods has been added a collection from Cordoba and Tucuman, 

 accompanied Avith the foliage and flowers of the trees from which the specimens were 

 taken. 



To the collection of vegetable structures in spirits have been added specimens of the 

 flower-panicles of Abe dic/iotoma and Aloe BarbarcB from South Africa, presented by 

 Roland Trimen, Esq. ; and of the fruit of Scyphochlcmiys rcvoluta, from Rodriguez. 



The collection of Drawings and Engravings of Plants has been largely increased during 

 the year by the further incorporation of drawing and engravings previously acquired, 

 and by the purchase of 8,772 further drawings and engravings. 



The number of visits paid during the year to the Plerbarium for scientific inquiry and 

 research, was 1,008. 



The following Ibreign Botanists may be specified as having used the Herbarium in 

 connection with their investigations : — M. C. De CandoUe, of Geneva ; M. Cogniaux, of 

 Brussels; Dr. Berggren and Mr. Nathorst, of Stockholm ; Dr. Hildebrandt, the African 

 Explorer ; and Baron Etiingshausen. of Gratz. Of British Botanists the following may 

 be specified :— Mr. W. P. Hiern, Mr. C. B. Clarke, Mr. J. G. Baker, Mr. A. \Y. 

 Bennett, Mr. J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, Mr. A. G. More, Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, Mr. B. D. 

 Jackson, Dr. Brailhwaite, Mr. S. le M. Moore, Mr. R. V. Tellam, Mr. E. M, Holmes, 

 Rev. "VV. W. Newbould, the Messrs. Groves, the Rev. J. M. Crombie, Mr. Howse, Mr. 

 Boulger, and Mr, Joshua. 



fVm. Carruthers. 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 



The preparation of the fourth volume of Jtlr. Stephens's Catalogue of Satirical Prints 

 and Drawings has been completed, and it is now ready to be set up in type. 



The Catalogue of early German and Flemish Prints by anonymous Masters of the 

 fifteenth and first quarter of the sixteenth centuries, prepared by Dr. Willshire, has been 

 published ; it contains descriptions of one hundred and fifty-two distinct subjects, and is 

 illustrated with ten plates and several woodcuts. 



The greater part of the collection of choice drawings by J. R. Cozens, Canaletto, T. 

 Girtin, J. M. W. Turner, r.a., David Cox, and W. J. Miiller, bequeathed by the late John 

 Henderson, Esq., F.S.A., has been arranged for public exhibition on screens in the King's 

 Library, 



An interesting series of early Playing Cards, of various countries, including the rare 

 sets jiresented last year by General Meyrick, has also been arranged on screens in the 

 King's Libi'ary. 



A full description has been prepared of the above exhibition for the general Guide to 

 the Museum, published at sixpence. 



A selection has been made of such duplicate prints possessed by the department as it 

 has been thought desirable to dispose of by public auction, in order to raise funds for the 

 purchase of the Grace Collection of London Tojoography. Each print selected has been 

 impressed with a special stamp, to which the keeper of the Department has aflfixed his 

 initials, as evidence that he has carefully compared it with the impression to be retained, 

 and satisfied himself that it is the inferior of the tv/o. 



The work of making copies of and extracts from reports and other documents relating 

 to the Department, preserved in the Principal Librarian's OflBce,has been completed, and 

 the whole collection bound up in volumes and indexed. 



The Library of Books of Reference has been re-arranged, and provided with press- 

 marks, which are written on the inside and affixed to the outside of each volume. The 

 Catalogue has been completed, and bound in five volumes, which contain 1,206 titles. 



One hundred and seven volumes of tbe Bagford Collection in the Department of MSS., 

 have been examined, wnth the concurrence of Mr. Thompson, and a list has been prepared 

 of such prints and drawings contained in it as it appeared desirable to transfer to the Print 

 Room ; many of these arc of great importance, but in their present position are not avail- 

 able for reference, being distributed tlirough miscellaneous collections of book-titles. 



A large number of fine prints and etchiiigs by Marc Antonio, Albrecht Diirer, Rem- 

 brandt, and other masters, forming part of the Slade Collection, which during tlie last 

 twelve years has been kept intact, out of respect for the donor's memory, have been 

 incorporated in the respective volumes of their works. 



Six hundred and seventy-one carbon pliotographs from drawings at Dresden have been 

 mounted, and the greater part of them impressed with the artists' names, etc. This com- 

 pletes tbe work, which has been in progress for some years, of mounting the extensive 

 series of reproductions by Brauu of Dornach, fi-om drawings by the Old Masters in the 

 public galleries of Europe. The whole will now be re-arranged, and the works of each 

 artist brought together, thereby enabling the student to pass in revicAV all the best 

 examples of a master's work which exist in the great Continental collections ; an advan- 

 tage which it would be hardly possible to overrate. 



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