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Miss E. HOMBERSLEY has given to the Department of Botany of the Natural History Museum 882 paintings of British flowering plants by Miss Ellen Hawkins, who died in 1864. The paintings are of considerable merit and are accompanied by descriptions, written on the opposite page of the double sheet, which give interesting details and information. Miss Hawkins wrote the botanical appendix to Robertson's “Handbook to the Peak”(1854). Mr. Reginald Cory has presented the original manuscript and drawings of the “Tabular Distribution of the Vegetable Kingdom” by John Stuart, third Earl of Bute. The Department already possesses many plants purchased at the Earl of Bute's sale in 1794. Prof. John Percival has presented a set of all the known species of Ægilops. Prof. Percival's knowledge of this difficult genus of grasses makes the set of special value. Among the purchases there is a further set of H. J. Schlieben's Tanganyika plants and 668 Brazilian and Mexican plants collected by Y. Mexia and 248 drawings of liverworts (Jubuleæ) by Fr. Verdoorn.
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Additions to the Botanical Collections. Nature 130, 659 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130659b0
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