ACCOUNTS, See. OF THE fililTISH MUSEUM. 6^ 



Fine crystallised Danburite, from Berg Scopi, Graiibilndten, Switzerland. 



Clear crystals of colourless Barytes, Chirbury, Shropshire. 



Brackebuschite and DcFcloizite, Cordoba, Argentine Republic, South America. 



Cuprodescloizite, ?^an Luis Potosi, Mexico. 



Calcwulfenite, Bleiberg, Carinthia. 



Leucochalcite, Schollkrippen, Spessart, Bavaria. 



Specimens of Scorodite of unusual habit, from Marke Valley Mine, Liskeard, Corn- 

 wall. 



Specimens <ind loose crystals of a rare s})ecies, Hcrderite, from Stoneham Maine 

 US.A. ■ ' 



Apatites from Berg Scopi, Graubiindten, Switzerland. 



Well crystallised specimens of the rare mineral Connellite, from Marke Valley Mine, 

 and Camborne, Cornwall. 



Specimens of Empholite and Talctriplite, from Horrsjoberg, Sweden. 



Igelstromite and Siliberglte, from West Silfberg, Wermland, Sweden, 



Hilljingsite. Hillano- Sweden. 



Rocks. 



Bi/ Presentation :- 



A slab of Porphyritic Felsite, from Caniop, Sutherlandshire : by Patrick Dudgeon, 

 Esq. 



Quartz-diorite from Arran ; by H. A. Miers, Esq., m.a. 



Pumice picked up in the Indian Ocean, in Lat. 7° S., Long. 86° E., after the Eruption 

 ofKrakatoa, Java; by Capiain R. J. Banks. 



Specimens of an oil-bearing rock from near Bahia, Brazil: by Lord Walsinghara. 



Gem gravel from streams in Ceylon : by Captain A. W. StifFe. 



Phonollte from the Wolf Rock : by F. J. Webb, Esq. 



Trowiesworthlte, 'I'rowiesworthy Tor, Dartmoor: by R. N. Worth, Esq., r.G.S. 



Specimens of the " Sacred Sand " of Cape Comorin : by R. D. Broadfoot, Esq. 



Sagvandite, Sagvand, Balo Fiord, Norway : by Professor Carl Pettersen of Tromso,, 

 Norway. 



Felsite, from a boring at Orton, Northamptonshire : by John Eunson, Esq., F.G.S. 



Sj/ Purchase : — 

 A collection of the granites of the Harz Mountains, Germany. 



Meteokites. 



Si/ Exchange : — 



Cronstadt, Orange River Free State, South Africa; Fell I9th November 1878. 

 Saint Caprais-de-Quinzac, Gironde, France ; Fell 28th January 188.3. 



J3i/ Purchase : — 

 Wichita County, Texas, U.S.A.; Found 1858. 



'I'he last two falls were previously not represented in the Collection. 



L. Fletcher. 



Department of Botany. 

 I. Arranyement. 



During the past year the folloAvIng Natural Orders have been revised, and large 

 additions have been made to them in the course of the revision : — Ranunculacece, 

 CapparidecB, PittosporecB^Polijgalece, CaryophyllacecB, Buettnerincca, Tiliacece, MulphigiuceoB, 

 RutacecB, Meliacece, Olacinea, Celastrinea, Ampelidcce, Leg uminosce , Rosacece, Samiidacece. 

 Turneracece, Ficoidea, Compositce, Ericaceo', Coiivolvulacecc, Solanacece, Scrophularinece, 

 Scitamhiecc, Lilittcoa, Xyridece, Cyperacece, GraminecR, ConifcrcB, RhizocaipecB, Lycopo- 

 diacccE, and Fiiices. 



The additions incorporated with these Orders have been chiefly from the collections 

 made in Java and Sumatra by Forbes and Zollinger, in Timor by Forbes, Home, and 

 Brown, In the Philippines by Cuming, In China by Home and Bretschnelder, in India 

 by Clarke, AValllch, Young, and Duthle, In Afghanistan by Aitchison, in Aden by Major 

 Yerbury, In the Caucasus by Brotherus, in Kgypt by Du Parquet, In Damara Land by 

 Green, at t'.ie Cajjc of Good Hope by J. JNI. Wood, In Madagascar by Baron, in Australia 

 by Lament and Drummond, in Tasmania by Mllligan, in New Zealand by Kirk, In 

 Savage and Niue islands by Jensen, In Samoa by GraefFe, In Guatemala by Turckheim, 



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