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10. — Herbarium and Library. 
Cei/lon Herharium. — All the additions up to the end of 1890 have been mounted and 
intercalated in their places Four new cabinets were set up, and the whole of the additional 
duplicate specimens, accumulated during the last few years, have been named and sorted away 
into their places. The Ceylon duplicates are now all properly named and arranged, and occupy 14 
cabinets. 
Owing to Mr. Clark's absence on leave, my own visit to Java, and the prolonged wet weather, 
I have made no extended tour in Ceylon for collecting during 1891. The Garden collectors have, 
however, been out as usual. 
The herbai'ium of Ceylon plants formed by the late W. Ferguson, P.L.S., which he bequeathed 
to the Ceylon Medical College, was during the year transferred to my Department. I have been 
carefully through the Avhole, and regret to have to say that owing to the ravages of damp and 
insects nearly the whole of the specimens were perfectly useless and had to be destroyed. This is 
less to be regretted, as Mr. Fergiison had been careful to supply the Garden herbarium with dupli- 
cates of all plants of interest which he collected. 
The whole of the specimens and drawings of Ceylon have been lent to Dr. G. King, 
F.R.S., of Calcutta, to assist him in preparing his monograph on this Family for the " Annals " of 
the Calcutta Gardens. 
Dr. G. Radde, the well-known traveller in the Caucasus and Director of the Tiflis Museum, 
accompanied the Czarevitch of Russia to Ceylon, and made a botanical expedition in the Hamban- 
tota District. He formed there a considerable collection of plants, which I had the pleasure of 
naming for him. 
Oeneral Hcrhariion. — A very large collection of plants sent in exchange (I believe in 1878) 
from the Imperial Museum at St. Petersburg, which had remained ever since tied up in bundles, 
has been taken in hand, and all have been sorted away into the General Herbarium. It proved a 
valuable addition, consisting of numerous specimens from the following collectors : — Skofitz, 
Armenia and Persia ; Karelin, Turcomania ; Radde, Baikal ; Schrenk, Songaria ; Maximowicz, 
Japan ; Riedel and Langs dorff, Brazil ; and F. von Mueller, Australia. 
From Dr. King, F.R.S., we have received from the Herbarium of the Calcutta Gardens about 
300 named and mounted specimens illustrating liis memoirs on Mi/risficA, the flora of the Malay 
Peninsula, &c. 
The draughtsman made 31 finished drawings of Ceylon plants and 29 of garden plants 
during the year. 
Lihrary. — The Garden Library has received the following books and pamphlets during the 
year either by gift or by purchase, and my thanks are due to the various donoi-s : — 
Pfeiffer, Nomenclator Botanicus, 2 vols, (in 4). 187.3-4. 
De Candohe, A. P., Memoire sur Anoiiacees. 1832. 
De Candolle. A., Moiiographiae Phanerogamariim, vol. VII. 18i)l. 
Hegelmaier, Die Lemnacecn. 18(i8. 
La Billardiei-e. Nonvean Grenre de Palmier. 1809. 
Palisot de Beaiivois, Essai d une Noiiv. Agrostogi^apliie, 2 vols. 1812. 
Seemann, Revision of Hedeiacea3. 18GK 
Teijsmann, Lodoicea Seychellariim. 18(')8. 
Veitch, Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, Pt. 7. 1891. 
Hookei', J. D., Flora of Brit. India, Pt. 17. 18!)0. (Prfi.ifi/itpd hy huVa Office.) 
King, Two new Ilex from E. Himalaya 18S(i. (Frrfipiifed hi/ Author.) 
Id., Three new Himalayan Primula. 1881). (Pvpiipntcrl h// Avtlior.) 
Bhime, Flora .lavaj. Orchideaj. 1K.58. 
Boerlage, Handleiding d. Flora V. Nederlansh Indie, vol I. 1890 {Frpspn/pil />// J)r Trpidj.) 
King, Materials for Flora of Malay Peninsula, pts. l-ij. 1889-91. {J'rpspniptl li 'ij Anilior.) 
Vander Sande-Lacoste, Synopsis Heijatio. .Javan. 18.5(). 
Elliot, Farinaceous Grains of S. India. 18(')2. 
GreshofF, Onder/.oek n. d. Plantcnstolton v. Nod Indie, pt. 1. 1890. {Prexptitpd h// .\ullior.) 
Watt, Dictionary of Economic Products of India, vols. IV. & Y. 1890. IS91 (Pn-^rntpd hi/ (lorernuient 
of India.) 
Ferguson, The Palmyrah Palm, {pppvint.) 1888. 
A.nnales du .Tard. Bo't. de liuitenzorg. vol. IX., pt. 2 ; vol. X. pt. 1. 1.S91. {^Presented hy Dr. Trpub.) 
Hooker's Icones Plantarum, vol. X., pts. .3 & 4., vol. XI., pts. 1-3. 1891. {Fre.^eided hy Beiitham Tni^teps.) 
Hniley. Catalogue of Plants in Botanic Uardens, Brisbane. 188,"). {Prp!<PidPd hy Author.) 
The Missouri Botanic rtardens. Report for 189(). {Preaentpd.) 
Woodrow, (iardening for India. 1889. 
Commelinus, PIanta> Rariorcs Exotica^ ITOti. 
Murray, Avifauna of Ceylon. 1891. (Prr.irntpd hi/ Ceylon (ioremrnent.) 
