Second Annual Report. 
The number of Specimens received, amounts to 18,592, 
including 1050 species, from which the Society’s collec- 
tion has been considerably enriched ; especially through 
the kindness of Mr. Baxter, in presenting a valuable collec- 
tion of British Sallees, comprising forty-four species, from 
specimens presented by Mr. Borrer to the Oxford Botanic 
Garden. The Society has also received nearly the whole of 
the British Carices, and solicit the attention of Members in 
completing the genera Rosa and Rubus, together with the 
Cryptogamia ; and in order to afford every facility for ex- 
amining the Herbarium, the rooms of the Society will be open 
two hours previous to the chair being taken at the ordinary 
meetings, when the Curator and Secretary will attend, to 
render any required assistance. 
The distribution will take place in the month of January 
next, when each Member will receive such of his desiderata, 
as may be contained in the Herbarium, in proportion to his 
contribution. Those Member who have not contributed to 
the Herbarium, receiving their duplicates after the distribu- 
tion to the contributors has taken place. 
The number of the Foreign plants received, amounts to 
upwards of 10,000 specimens, principally from the collection 
of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh (who also largely 
contributed to the British Herbarium), H. B. Fielding, Esq. 
Baron Macedo, Mr. Adam White, Mr. D. Cooper, and Mr. 
J. Rich. The Council have much gratification in informing 
the Members that they have made arrangements with the 
Council of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, who have 
promised them every assistance, and that a mutual exchange 
of specimens will annually take place, which cannot fail 
to be of great advantage to the Members of both Societies. 
To Robert H. Schomburgk, Esq., the Society is much in- 
debted for communications, accompanied by drawings of 
Triplaris Americana, and Bertholletia excelsa, the latter ac- 
companied by specimens of the fruit, bark, and liber, of that 
tree ; and from whom a specimen of the leaf of Victoria Re- 
gina has been received, which the Council deemed advisable 
to deposit in the Herbarium of the British Museum. 
From D. Stock, Esq., the Society has also received a va- 
luable collection of Seeds. 
In order to advance as much as possible the interests of 
the Society, the Council have caused to be published a sheet 
of the whole of “ Be Candolle’s Natural Orders and Genera,” 
together with the whole of the “ Linncean Classes and Or- 
ders,” in such a form as will serve the purpose of arranging 
