COUNCIL FOR 1894. 
IX. 
Southern Germany, presented by Dr Engel, of Eislingen. 
Dr. Talmage has presented a fine specimen of selenite from 
the extraordinary group recently found in Wayne County, 
Utah, and mineral specimens of various kinds have been 
presented by Mr. Christopher Richardson and Mr. J. Wilkinson. 
A small collection of Vesuvian minerals was also obtained by 
the Keeper of the Museum. The chief deficiency of the 
collection is its weakness in crystals and crystallographic 
models. 
Botany. — British Collection .—During the year 1894, over 
500 specimens, illustrative of the N O. Gramin°ao, Eilices, 
Equisetaceae Lycopodiaeeae, have been mounted and arranged. 
The majority of these specimens are from the collections of 
the Rev. James Dalton, F.L.S. (1827, 1887); W. Middleton 
(1827), S. Hailstone (1859), A. W. Walker (1895). 
In addition to this work, 200 specimens of British 
Phanerogams have been mounted and entered in the Herbarium 
Catalogue. 
Many interesting British plants have been added to the 
collection by the Honorary Curator, chiefly owing to the 
kindness of two botanists, Mr. R. A. Phillips (Cork), and Mr. 
H. Fisher, late of Nottingham Since Mr. Fisher contributed 
these specimens he has left England, and is now engaged as 
botanist to the “Windward” Jackson-Harms worth Polar 
Expedition. 
Valuable literary communications, relative to the founders of 
the Society’s Herbarium, have been made by Sir Joseph Dalton 
Hooker, K.C.S.I., C.B. ; Lieut.-Col. J. C. Dalton, R.A. ; 
Mr. "Charles Dalton, F.R.G.S. ; Arthur J. Munby, Esq. 
(Athenaeum) ; and Miss Baines, York. 
These letters will be referred to in the “ Herbarium Notes,” 
and the Curator desires to record his thanks to the contributors 
for their kind assistance. 
The Legard collection of Algae is in excellent preservation, 
but the other sections of Cryptogamous plants are imperfectly 
represented in the Society’s collection. 
Foreign Collection .—This section has been augmented by a 
very fine collection of dried plants and fruits representative of 
the Flora of China. 
