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woods also, and various useful vegetable productions, con- 
stitute another part of the Museum. 
1x. Under this head come remarks on the different her- 
baria which may be considered as the bases of the grand general 
collection. 1. One of the most remarkable of them is that 
of M. Lemonnier, of Versailles, purchased in 1803, and which 
consisted, besides the general collection of 10,000 species 
formed by that gentleman, of those of Commerson, Billar- 
ditre, Desfontaines, and André Michaux. 2, Herbaria of the 
two Burmanns ; 3, Thunberg’s Herbarium of Japan; 4, that 
of Ventenat ; 5, those of Palisot de Beauvois ; 6, that of Thuil- 
lier; and 7, many collections from the sale of the late Mr. 
Lambert's herbarium. Very interesting particulars are here 
likewise given, respecting the circumstances under which, and 
the countries where, these collections were made. 
X. Expeditions and Travels, the botanical collections of 
which are preserved in M. Delessert’s herbarium. This is a 
chapter full of valuable information and research, and we 
have: 1, under the head of General Expeditions and Travels ; 
those of Billardiere, Gaudichaud (three voyages, those in the 
Uranie, the Herminie, and La Bonite), Beechey, D’Urville, 
Perottet and Sieber. 2, under Particular Voyages or Travels ; 
Norway and Spitzbergen, Martius; Lapland, Linnæus; Russia, 
Fischer and Sanson ; Crimea, Leveillé ; France, and in the rest 
of Europe ;—here names crowd upon us, so as to render it 
impossible to extract them for our limited space. Asiatic 
Russia, Arabia and Persia; Patrin, Hohenacher, Kotschy, 
Chesney, Bové, Schimper, Laborde, Wellsted, Aucher-Eloy, 
Jaubert, Boissier, Pinard, Roe. East Indies; Wallich and 
other collectors from the E.I. Company, &c., Belanger, Jac- 
quemont, Law, Adolphe Delessert. China and Japan; Ma- 
Cartney, Callery, Thunberg. From the vast continent of 
frica, we can only mention some of the more remarkable of 
the collections; those of Delille, Schimper, Kotschy, Bové, 
Salt, Webb, Durieu and Bory, Leprieur, Heudelot, Brunner, 
Beauvois, Masson, Verreaux, Ecklon and Zeyher, Drege, 
