REPORTS. 
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Tlemcen, Algeria — by your Curator. A silver circular plate, 
stamped in imitation of engraving, showing the course taken 
by Sir Francis Drake in his voyage round the world in 1577-1580, 
reproduced from the original in the British Museum, by Mr. Kobert 
Burnard. A curious Chinese book, block-printed, representing street 
scenes, taken at the capture, by assault, of Nam-tow, Canton river, 
in 1858, by Colonel T. V. Cooke, r.m.l.i. A small Roman bronze 
coin (Constans dug out of the soil near the Kitchen Midden, 
Batten, by Mr. Cecil Brent, f.s.a., and presented by him. 
"A fine collection of arms, implements, and ornaments of the 
Dyaks, Sarawak, Borneo, has been deposited in the Museum, on 
loan for ten years at least, by Mr. C. S. Pearse, of Thornham, 
Ivy bridge, of the Rajah's Service. 
"Your Curator hopes that, if these presentations are made 
known, others may be made by gentlemen and others in the 
neighbourhood, who, having many objects of interest in their 
possession, would prefer to see them deposited in our Museum, 
where they would prove of interest and afford instruction to many 
visitors, rather than keep them shut up in their own houses." 
The Curator of Botany reported : 
"During the past year specimens of 140 local species, some 
rare, collected mostly by the late Mr. Banker between the years 
1849 and 1856, have been kindly presented by Mr. T. R. Archer 
Briggs. I have had them all mounted, retaining the old labels, 
and placed in order. I find that 41 supply vacancies in the 
Institution's Herbarium, wherein exactly 600 species of local 
plants are now represented. 
"On the afternoon of June 18th a short botanical excursion 
was made to Old Newnham and Hemerdon, Plympton, Mr. Brooke 
W. Coaker and Miss Strode kindly granting permission to go 
through their grounds. Several plants were dissected in the 
field, and the family, generic, and specific differences pointed out, 
a young member of the party climbing later on an oak tree, 
and obtaining some large spongy oak-apples, in appearance like and 
as large as the root of the Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus 
tuberosus), and which were compared on the spot with the small 
round currant gall and the hard dry gall nut. On the return 
the ruins of Plympton Castle and the Church of Plympton 
St. Maurice close by were visited." 
