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Contributions towards the menagerie from the following donors I have great 
pleasure to acknowledge : — 
Allitt, W., Portland. 
Arnott, South Yarra. 
Austin, Th., IBarwon Park. 
Baitrnan and Kobin, Riddle Creek. 
Barker, Pr., Prahran. 
Barwood, Mrs., Eichmond. 
Bayloy, Belfast. 
Bear, Melbourne. 
Brown, Andr., Melbourne. 
Cameron, Hugh, Prahran. 
Glutton, W. H., M'^arrnambool. 
Crouch, J. F,, Mount Gambler. 
Dexter, Mrs. 
Dove and Oswald, Melbourne. 
Elwell. 
English, Melbourne. 
Evans, South Yarra. 
Forster, Wm. M. 
Francis, G., Adelaide. 
Gallogby, G. D. 
Gerard, E. von, Melbourne. 
Ge.ssucr, P. D., Dandonong. 
Gipps, T. M. 
Gladsman, E. W. 
Govett, G. 
Hedley, Dr., Port Albert. 
Hudson, J., Campbell Creek. 
Hughes, T., Manchester. 
Johnson, W. 
Landells, St. Kilda. 
Lessing, Capt., of brig Lessing. 
Levitt, J., St. Kilda. 
Lyall, Wm., M.L.A. 
McCoy, Professor, University, Melbourne. 
McGowan, Sam. 
McHaffie, Phillip Island. 
McMillan, A., Avon Eiver. 
Mallett, Dav., South Yarra. 
Michie, Archb., M.L.A. 
Milne, W. 
Mount, C. A. 
Pearce, WiU. 
Perkins, G. 
Powell, Prahran. 
Rogers, T., Sandstone Island. 
Eostron, L.. Brighton. 
Shaud, C., Ceylon. 
Spain, H. W. 
Stanway, John, Snapper Point. 
Sumner, T. J. 
Thistlethwaite, WiU. 
Wilkinson, D., C.E., Prahran. 
Whelston. Edw., Eichmond. 
Wilson, Edw., London. 
III. — Botanical Department. 
The first tving of a building destined for a Botanical Museum was completed in the 
early part of the past year, but became only mthin the last months sufficiently dry to serve 
as a receptacle for our daily augmenting collections of dried plants, woods, carpological 
specimens and technical vegetable productions now transferred thither. By consent of the 
Honorable J. G. Francis, Esq., repositories have been furnished capable of holding 
160,000 botanical specimens, and these have for the greater part already been filled with 
the fascicles of the herbarium. A few months will yet elapse before these extensive and 
carefully examined collections can be placed in such a perfect order as to be readily and 
advantageously inspected and consulted. The herbarium received during the year a large 
acces.sion by the collections formed by Dr. Beckler in the mountain tracts of Eastern 
Australia between the rivers Hastings and Clarence; further by collections secured in 
New England by Mr. C. Stuart, by Mr. Eug. Fitzalan at Moreton Bay, by Mr. F. W. 
Shepherd and T. Ralston at Illawarra, and by Mr. A. Thozet at Rockhampton. These 
contributions, emanating from localities previously in a botanical view but partially 
explored, have }'ielded much valuable information on Au.stralian botany in general, and 
afforded additional means of elaborating the Flora of Victoria in a ciitical comparison 
with the vegetation of the other Australian colonies. 
W. WooUs, Esq., of Parramatta, fiumished most usefid collections of plants from his 
district, enhanced by valuable notes ; Miss Atkinson from the Blue Mountains, T. Wilcox, 
Esq., from the Clarence Eiver, Mr. George Maxwell from South Western Australia. 
Contributions towards the herbarium, be.sides the above, were obtained from the following 
donors : — 
Allitt, W., Portland. 
Archer, Hon. W., Hobarton. 
Ayres, Dr., Mauritius. 
Bowman, Edwd., Upper Darling Eiver. 
Cairns, T., Fcejee Islands. 
Eaton, M., Boston, U.S. 
Gray, Prof. A., Boston, U.S. 
Haast, Jul., Nelson, New Zealand. 
Hance, Dr., Hong Kong. 
Hannaford, S., Geelong. 
Head, H. A., Canterbury, New Zealand. 
Heward, E., Kensington. 
Hirscbi and Lenne, Castlemaine. 
Hooker, Dr. J., Kew. 
Jaeckel, W., Melbourne. 
Krichauff, Fr., Macclesfield, South Australia. 
Ligar, C., Melbourne. 
Meod, L. B., Illinois. 
Oldfield, A., Brown’s Eiver, F.D.L. 
Parker, Mrs. E., Sydney. 
Eogers, S., Sandstone Island. 
Smith, C. B., Castlemaine. 
Sartwell, Dr. H. P., Boston. 
Tozer, Hor., Port Macquarie. 
Travers, Judge, Nelson, Now Zealand. 
Warburton, Major, Adelaide. 
Waterhouse, F., Adelaide. 
Woods, Rev. J. E., Peuola, South Australia. 
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