68 ACCOUNTS, Sec, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



George Maw, Esq., of Benthall Hall, presented his valuable collection of the genus 

 Crocus, consisting of 416 specimens of plants and 72 specimens of corm-tunics, which are of 

 special value in connection with Mr. Maw's important monograph of this genus. The 

 specimens have been carefully mounted and incorporated with the Herbarium, and form 

 an unsiirpassed series of these interesting plants. 



The other principal additions to the collections by presentation during the year have con- 

 sisted of 743 species of plants from Australasia, from Baron von Mueller ; 617 species of 

 South African plants, jiresented by the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers; 337 species of plants 

 from Morocco, from John Ball, isq.; 315 species of plants collected in the Expedition to 

 Roraima, British Gniajia, from Everard im Thurn, Esq. ; 1 14 species of plants, chiefly from 

 South America, and four species of cultivated orchids from H. Veitch, Esq., F.L.s. ; a 

 small collection of plants from St. Mary Island, Gambia, from J. R. Maxwell, Esq. ; 

 128 species of South African plants from J. Medley Wood, Esq.; 116 species of Indian 

 plants, from J. S. Gamble, Esq. ; a small collection of plants from Aden, from Major 

 Yerbury ; 20 species of plants from the Falkland Islands, collected and presented by Mrs. 

 Holmstead ; some critical North American plants from Dr. Parry ; a small collection of 

 plants from the Gilbert Islands, from C. M. Woodford, Esq. ; 150 species of j)lants from 

 Greenland, from the Botanical Museum of the University of Copenhagen, tlirough Prof. 

 Kiaerskou; 28 species of rare Italian plants from H. Groves, Esq.; a small collection 

 of plants I'rom Oporto, from I. Newton, Esq. ; three species of Ceylon plants from Dr. 

 Trimen ; a species of Crocus and several Algae from Afghanistan, from W. Sim])son, Esq.; 

 a collection of Composite from different parts of the world, from George Maw, Esq. ; 

 10 specimens of Nepenthes and 14 specimens of Masdevallia from S. Courtauld, Esq. ; 17 

 species of cultivated Orchids from Baron Walter Rothschild ; 50 species of cultivated 

 Orchids from Messrs. Shuttleworth, Garden, & Co. ; 27 species of Orchideaj from Mada- 

 gascar, collected by Dr. Fox; 10 species of cultivated Orchids from T. Moore, Esq.; 

 three species of cultivated Orchids from T. Christy, Esq. ; a cultivated Orchis from 

 B. S. Williams, Esq.; four species of cultivated Orchids, from F. W. Burbidge, Esq. ; a 

 cultivated Orchis from \lajor Lendy ; a species of Eucharis from W. Bull, Esq, ; a speci- 

 men of Atlirotaxis laxifolia, from J. Rashleigh, Esq.; 144 Cryptogams from Mrs. 

 Skipworth. 



The following collections have been acquired by purchase: — 914 species of plants from 

 Paraguay, from Balansa ; 2,275 plants from South America, collected by R. Pearce ; 400 

 Mexican plants from Kerber ; 483 Mexican plants from Schaffner ; 120 species of Cali- 

 fornian plants, collected by the Rev. E. L. Greene ; 344 plants from South Africa, being 

 the beginning of MacOwan and Bolus's Herbarium Normale Austro-Africanun ; 154 

 plants from Rubai Hills, Mombasa, collected by the Rev. W. E. Taylor; 453 species of 

 plants from Comoro Islands, from Humblot ; 282 plants from Syria, collected by Dr. G. 

 E. Post ; 1,162 species of plants from Arabia, from H. C. Hart, Esq. ; 300 specimens of 

 European Hieracia from Dr. Albert Peter; 100 species of Sicilian plants from Lojacono ; 

 548 preparations of cellular plants made by W. Joshua, Esq. ; 250 species of Diato- 

 macta3 ficm Van Heurck ; 165 species of American Hepaticfe ; 200 sjDecies of European 

 I'ungi, from Rabenhorst ; 100 species of Fungi, from Von Thuemen ; 100 species of 

 Ascoraycetous Fungi, from Rehm ; 100 species of European Mosses, from Raben- 

 horst. 



The following important additions have been obtained by exchange for duplicates : — 

 From, the Imperial Botanical Gardens, St. Petersburg, 1,072 species of plants from Japan, 

 China, and Mandchuria, collected by C. J. de Maximowicz, and 663 Turkestan plants, 

 collected by Alb. de Regel ; from the Royal Herbarium, Leyden, 355 species of plants 

 from Java, collected by Blume and others ; from J. F. Duthie, Esq., Director of the 

 Botanical Gardens, Saharunpore, India, 350 plants fiom Kumaon and other parts of 

 Northern India, collected by Mr. Duthie ; from Professor Engler of the University of 

 Kiel, 100 species of Aroideae ; from R. D. Fitzgerald, Esq., of Sydney, 8 species of 

 Australian Orchids ; and from the Imperial Herbarium, Vienna, 593 Austro-Hungarian 

 j'lants collected by Dr. A. J. Kerner, Professor of the University of Vienna. 70 speci- 

 mens of CorallincEe have been transferred from the Department of Zoology. 



Contributions to the British Herbarium have been received from R. F. Towndrow, Esq., 

 J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, Esq., J. Benbow, Esq., G. S. Boulger, Esq., Rev. D. Matheson, 

 W. Mati:ews, Esq., W. Bowles Barrett, Esq., R. Sherriug, Esq., Rev. C. A. Newdigate, 

 A. Bennett, Esq., J. H. A. Jenner, Esq., J. Brebner, Esq., W. H. Beeby, Esq., J, E. 

 Griffith, Esq., Dr. Eraser, R. Brown, Esq., F. J. Hanbury, Esq., J. Rashleigh, Esq., 

 and B. G. Glasspoole, Esq. From F. A. Lees, Esq., has been received the parcels of 

 plants presented by the Botanical Record Club. A collection of the fruits and seeds of 

 210 British plants from Clement Reid, Esq.; 129 species of Mosses collected in Bedford- 

 shire by Mr. J. Saunders ; two Liverworts from F. T. Mott, Esq. ; 25 Algaj from E. M. 

 Holmes, Esq. ; 12 Fvmgi from W. G. Smith, Esq. ; and preparations showing the oospores 

 0^ Percnwspoiu ]nigmaea,i\-om Geo. Brebner, Esq., have also been received. 

 ^ The Collection of the Prints and Drawings of Plants has also been increased by the pur- 

 diase of 174 original drawings of the plants of the Straits Settlements made by Christopher 

 Smith, whose collections are in the Herbarium ; 70 original drawings by Spaendonk; 

 32 original drawings of Fungi by W. G. Smith; 1,415 plates of plants- Dr." M. C. Cooke 

 presented 281 plates of British Fungi, from works published by him on these plants. 



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