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different portions, proceeded. In this dispersion, though 
aided by the most zealous Botanists in England, and by M. - 
Alphonse De Candolle from Geneva, and Professor Kunth | 
from Berlin, Dr. Wallich's personal labour has been very - 
great: yet he scarcely relaxed for a single day. The entire - 
examination of many species, in order to the formation of à — 
complete catalogue, with numbers corresponding to the - 
specimens distributed, was in itself a work of no ordinary 
stamp; and this has been executed in lithography and | i 
written with Dr. Wallich's own hand. But his Magnum - I 
Opus, and that on which Dr. Wallich's fame as a Botanist 
may safely rest, is his Plante Asiatice Rariores; a womb - 
which, whether for the beauty or rarity aud interest of the 
subjects, the execution of the plates, or the accuracy of the r 
descriptions, is surpassed by no publication of this, or any — 
other period. Already, four Fasciculi have appeared, each — 
with twenty-five plates, on an imperial folio size, and fiiy 
closely-printed pages of letterpress. Eight more Fasciculi af 
will complete the work. It is not possible to conceive how Di — 
Wallich can have accomplished so laborious a task, amidst 
all his other important employments, but by the consideration 
that many of these materials were completed while the author - 
was yet resident in India. P 
There were still lying at the India House, very extensivè 
collections of plants, made by other Botanists in the Com- 
pany’s possessions; and duplicates of these, Dr. Wallich 
likewise urged the Directors to distribute in the same mamet - 
as was done with his own: and here again his wishes have. 
been complied with. When Dr. Wallich had completed 35 - 
far as No. 2159, the following announcement was made of | 
* Since the preceding sheets were printed, the undermem — 
tioned Herbaria have been added, from the East India Com- : 
pany's museum, to the collection brought home by Dr. Wal- f 
lich, principally with a yiew to the distribution of thew 
duplicates. They will be indicated in the manner noticed 
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