ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



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Esq. ; a collection of British species of Carej\ Avitli the parts of the Inflorescence and 

 fruit dissected and carefully drawn, from Dr. Priestley; 41 British plants from the 

 Misses Thompson ; 2 British plants from Miss Woolward ; Hypericum linariifolinm 

 from Carnarvonshire, from Professor Babington ; IG British plants from G. (J. Druce, 

 Esq. ; Linaria spuria from A. J. Crosiield, Esq. ; Monstrous ilowers of Ivy, from Y)i\ 

 M. T. Masters, f.r.s. ; a remarkable fasciated Daphne from T. Harcourt Powell, Escj. ; 

 13 Dumfriesshire plants from J. J. Johnstone, Esq. ; -irA British plants from the Rev! 

 E. S. Marshall ; 20 British plants from H. Moninyton, Esq. ; Polyporus igniarius from 

 E. Allen, Esq. ; Sphaerocarpus Michelii, from Suffolk, from the Rev. H. P. 

 Reader ; Didymium daedaleum from W. G. Smith, Esq. ; Puccinia Schroeteri on 

 Daffodil from W. G. Smith, Esq. ; Nitella batrachosperina from the Outer Hebrides, 

 new to Britain, from A. Bennett, Esq. ; Diatomacea?, from the Thames, from W. H. 

 Shrubsole, Esq. ; Codiuin Bursa, from Worthing, from Miss C. Spong ; 3 species of 

 British Sphagnum from Dr. Braithwaite ; 46 Commelinaceaa and 1 Flagellaria from 

 C. B. Clarke, Esq., f.r.s. ; 13 Orchids from Miss Woolward ; 41 Orchids from F. W. 

 Moore, Esq. ; 40 Orchids from H. Veitch, Esq. ; 2 Nepenthes from H. Veitch, Esq. ; 

 99 Algte and 129 Lichens from John Dillwyn Llewelyn, Esq. ; 177 preparations of 

 cellular plants ; section of stem of Dracophyllum, from New Zealand, from J. D. 

 Enys, Esq. ; seeds of Sophora speciosa from E. M. Holmes, Esq. ; and specimens of 

 plants from Kahun, Middle Egypt, from tomb, about 2, GOO B.C., found by ^Ir. Flinders 

 Petrie, from H. M. Kennard, Esq. 



The following collections have been acquired by pui-chase : — 100 plants from 

 Stanley Falls, Congo, from F. Heus ; 339 plants from Natal ; a small collection 

 of plants from Kina Balu, collected by J. Whitehead ; 100 Freshwater Algte, of 

 France, from Mougeot, &C. ; 1.50 Freshwater AlgtB from Wittrock and Nordstedt ; .50 

 Italian AXgie from De Toni and Levi ; 25 parasitic Fungi from Briosi and Cavara ; 

 GOO Fungi from Sydow ; 390 Portuguese plants from the Rev. R. P. Murray , 40 species of 

 Danish Rubi ; 2,928 plants from Greece, from Haussknecht ; 200 specimens of 

 Schultz's Herbarium Normale ; 223 ^gean plants from Heldreich ; 100 plants from 

 Greece, from Heldreich ; 208 Mexican plants, collected by Schumann ; 850 American 

 plants, collected by Pringle ; 50 American Algtie from Farlow ; 25 British Algaj from 

 Holmes ; 114 slides of British Algie from Buffham ; 100 specimens of wood-sections 

 by Nordlinger; 63 sections of woods; and 121 preparations of Fossil plants from Sir 

 Joseph Hooker ; a collection of Tertiary plants specially prepared by Baron 

 Ettingshausen for comparison with recent plants. 



By exchange the following collections have been acquired : — A series of Algaj from 

 the Baltic, collected by Professor Reinke, of Kiel, many of which are type specimens; 

 72 species of European cellular plants from E. M. Holmes ; and specimens of Proso- 

 panche Burmeisteri, new species of Brugmannsia, Raftiesia, and Cymopolia. specimens 

 of Phytocrene, Ceratozamia, and Peridermium Pini, from Count Solms Laubach. 



The following contributions to the Departmental Library have been received : — 

 Purchas and Ley's " Flora of Herefordshire; " presented by the Woolhope Natura- 

 lists' Field Club; Boulger's "Useful Plants," from the author; Hector's " Phor- 

 miuni tenax," from the Colonial Museum, New Zealand ; " Scientific Memoirs by 

 Medical Officers of the Indian Army," Part IV., and " Selections from the Records 

 of the Government of India," Parts I. -XIX., from the Government of In<lia; Baker's 

 " Monograph of the Bromeliaceiie," from the author ; and the " Journal of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society " for 1888, from the Society. 



Mr. T. Harcourt Powell has presented 12 photographs of plants growing in the 

 Botanic Gardens of Madeira, and Mr. George Massee, six original drawings of British 

 Fungi. 



The number of visitors for scientific research or inquiry during the year has been 

 1,344. 



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