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THE Department of Botany of the British Museum (Natural History) has received 430 plants collected by Miss Nancy Lindsay and Mrs. A. Fullerton in Iran, principally from the Elburz Mountains, an area which has been little worked. The collection is accompanied by useful notes and by a number of excellent water-colour paintings of the more attractive plants by Miss Lindsay. The Biological Department of the Medical College, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, has presented its botanical herbarium. It is in twelve volumes and contains about eight hundred well-mounted sheets. The collection was apparently got together between 1823 and 1844; the majority were collected by T. R. Tuck, although a large number bear the names of the Rev. Prof. J. S. Henslow and C. C. Babington. The Hon. Mrs. de Beaumont has presented the botanical press of A. L. de Jussieu. This interesting historical relic is strongly constructed of mahogany, and resembles a copying press. It takes only a small sheet, such as those of the herbarium of de Jussieu in Paris.
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Botanical Acquisitions at the British Museum. Nature 137, 394 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137394a0
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