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The collection of Fruits and Seeds has received a series of fruits from Java, from Mr. 

 Forbes, including fine specimens of Pandanus macrocarpus. 



To the collection of objects suitable for exhibition have been added a large specimen 

 of Wehvitscliia mirabilis, stems of Cycas revoluta, and of a Xaiithorrheo, a section of the 

 stem of Borassus JEthwpicus, a fine leaf of Corypha umbraculifera, a branch with cones of 

 Pinvs Edgariana, and several specimens of wood presented hy Sir Joseph D. Hooker, 

 Director of Kew Gardens ; 303 specimens of Indian woods from the India Museum, 

 through the Director of Kew Gardens ; stems of Areca conciana, Bauhinia scundens, 

 Entada scandens, Flacouitia Cataphracta, Anamirta Coccuhis, Carallia integerrima, Des- 

 moncus major, Dum(Zuorops filare. Calamus rudentum, Ficus elastica, and Bornhax mala- 

 baricum, and the Rhizome and Stem of Bambusa Thouarsii presented by Dr. Trimen, 

 Director of the Botanic Gardens, Peradenya, Ceylon ; stems of Metroxylon laeve, Cycas 

 circinalds, Areca Catechu, and Alsophila,&VLd specimens oi Myrmecodia from Java, collected 

 by Mr. Forbes. 



The collection of Drawings and Engravings of Plants has been considerably increased 

 during the year. A large series, formed by the late W. Wilson Saunders, was purchased, 

 and is being incorporated with the general collection, together with 2,517 further Draw- 

 ings and Engravings. Five volumes, containing 928 original Drawings of the Ramifica- 

 tions of plants, made by John Miller for John, Earl of Bute, have been acquired ; and 25 

 original Drawings of Fungi by W. G. Smith. 



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

 research was 788. The following foreign botanists may be specified as having used the 

 Herbarium in connection with their investigations : — M. A, DeCandolle, of Geneva ; 

 Prof. Asa Gray, of America ; Prof. Engler, of Kiel ; Dr. Haussknecht, of Weimar ; Dr. 

 Rehman, of Cracow ; Baron Ettingshausen, of Gratz ; and the Rev. L. Menyharth, of 

 Innsbruck. Of British botanists the following may be specified: — Mr. J. G. Baker, Mr. 

 A. W. Bennett, Mr. A. Bennett, Mr. Bisset, Dr. Braithwaite, Mr. C. B. Clarke, 

 Rev. J. M. Crombie, the Messrs. Groves, Mr. W. P. Hiern, Mr. E. M. Holmes, Mr. 

 Howse, Mr. B. Daydon Jackson, Mr. J. C. Man sel-Pley dell, Mr. S. le M. Moore, and 

 the Rev. W. W. Newbould. 



W. Carruthers. 



Department of Feints and Drawings. 



Th^ printing of the fourth volume of Mr. Stephens' Catalogue of Satirical Prints has 

 been completed. It Includes more than fourteen hundred satires, from the year 1761 to 

 the end of 1770. 



A second volume of " A Descriptive Catalogue of Early German and Flemish 

 Prints " is in preparation, by Dr. Willshire. It will include the works of anony- 

 mous or unrecognised masters of the 15th century and of the first quarter of the 16th 

 century ; also engravings of masters having marks, monograms, or ciphers. To these 

 •will "be added the works of Engravers whose names are known, or are assumed to have 

 been recognised, and which form important features in the history of early engraving 

 in the schools of the North ; such, for example, are the works of John of Cologne, Velt 

 Stoss, Franz von Bocholt, Martin Schongauer, Israhel von Meckenen and Zatsinger. 



A selection from the Crace Collection of prints and drawings illustrating London 

 Topography has been arranged for exhibition on fifty-four screens and in four table cases 

 in the King's Library, in place of the Henderson Collection of Drawings and the series of 

 English Portraits and early Playing Cards, which have been withdrawn. 



A complete list of the above Exhibition has been prepared for the General Guide to the 

 Museum. 



The fine collection of proofs of Turner's " Liber Studiorum " has been remounted and 

 arranged according to the Catalogue recently published by Mr. W. G. Rawlinson, the 

 titles, states, and references being printed in bistre on the mounts. 



A large number of drawings of the French School have been incorporated with the 

 collection, the number of cases being thereby increased from 9 to 25. 



The drawings by Mrs. Beale and her son Charles have been arranged in four solander 

 cases. 



The series of carbon photographs from drawings by the Old Masters i'l; the Dresden 

 Gallery have been arranged in thirteen solander cases. 



A portion of the etched works of Thomas Worlidge, filling two solander cases, have 

 been incorporated with the chronological arrangement of English Etchings. 



A large number of prints by the brothers Wierix and by Jakob de Gheyn, recently- 

 acquired, have been incorporated in their respective volumes. 



A translation has been made of Rosenberg's Catalogue of the Works of Barthel and 

 Hans Sebald Beham, to serve as a working catalogue. 



Translations have also been made of the lists of the works of Hans Baldung Griin and 

 Heinrich Aldegrever, in Meyer's " Allgemeine Kunstler Lexikon," for the same purpose. 



An index has been prepared to the fourth volume of the Catalogue of English Satirical 

 Prints. 



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