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THE Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History), has received some noteworthy additions during the last two months. His Majesty the King has placed on permanent loan a further collection of Nepal plants presented to him by His Highness the Maharaja of Nepal. The present consignment numbers 253 specimens, which were collected by Prof. K. Sharma; Major L. Dhwoj, who was responsible for the previous collections, died during the expedition. The value of the collection is that it is from previously unexplored mountains. Another collection which will add to our knowledge of the floristics of the Himalayan region has been presented by Capt. F. Kingdon-Ward. It consists of 1233 specimens, and is from the Upper Irrawaddy and the Burma-Tibet frontier. A valuable addition is the gift of the Boswell-Syme British Herbarium by Mr. Frederick J. Hanbury. This contains about 20,000 sheets, in fourteen mahogany cabinets, and will be kept as a separate collection. Boswell-Syme (1822–1888) was the editor of the third edition of “English Botany”, and the specimens on which his remarkably accurate descriptions were based are in the collection. The herbarium was purchased by Mr. Hanbury on Boswell-Syme's death, and is in excellent condition. British botanists will now be free to consult the remarkably long series of species which are rarely well represented in modern herbaria. Mr. A. Vernay has presented a set of plants obtained on the Vernay-lTang expedition to the Kalahari desert. This area is very poor floristically, and the 264 species, including twenty type gatherings, are consequently of value in extending our knowledge of distribution.
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New Botanical Collections. Nature 129, 824 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129824a0
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