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gether with those that followed me to England, were retained 
intact until such time as I should receive authority from Her 
Majesty's Government to complete the arrangement of the whole 
and prepare the accompanying report upon the botanical results 
of the Boundary Commission. 
The necessary arrangements having been made which enabled 
me to repair to Kew, I immediately commenced the sorting and 
ticketing of the specimens in all the collections, previous to throw- 
ing them together into one complete classified Herbarium and 
comparing them with the rich North American Herbarium of Sir 
William Hooker, which, from its containing the plants of every 
previous explorer of British North America, named in accordance 
with that celebrated botanist’s ‘ Flora Boreali-Americana,’ offered 
facilities for such a comparison that no other botanical establish- 
ment possesses. 
. The collections having been accurately and, indeed, authen- 
tically named, and a complete set laid into the Hookerian Her- 
barium, I distributed the duplicates to various public museums 
and botanists in Europe and North America, as well as India and 
Australia—those having been selected in which (according to the 
authorities at Kew) they would be most beneficial to science. In 
doing this, I attached to every specimen a ticket, bearing the same 
name, locality, &c., as that attached to the specimens retained in 
the Herbarium at Kew. This done, I drew up the report as 
follows. 
The collections contained 1375 species, of which upwards of 
6700 specimens were distributed, not including in the number of — 
the latter the Alga, Mosses, Hepaticæ, or Lichens. Of the latter 
order sixty sets are made up, ready for distribution. The others 
were made up into sets as far as the duplicates of each species 
would allow, and sent to the following Herbaria :— 
Dr. Asa Gray, Cambridge University, | M. Boissier, Geneva. 
Massachusetts. Royal Herbarium, Leyden. 
Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Professor Bungé, Dorpat. , 
Royal Herbarium, Berlin. Dr. Lindley, F.R.S. 
Herbarium, Botanical Gardens, St. John Ball, Esq., F.R.S. 
Petersburg. Royal Herbarium, Calcutta. 
Imperial Herbarium, Vienna. Royal Herbarium, Munich. 
Professor N. J .Anderson,Stockholm. | Professor Fries, Upsal. 
Professor Grisebach, Góttingen. Professor O. Heer, Zurich. 
Herbarium, Trinity College, Dublin. | Dr. Mueller, F.R.S., Melbourne. 
