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It is an extremely neat collection, well preserved, ancl very carefully 

 mounted on thick white paper with ornamental borders, each specimen 

 enclosed in a folded sheet of stiff brown paper with gilt edges. The 

 plants are arranged in alphabetical order, and were named, it is said, 

 by Dillenius himself. 



8, East Ii^dian Herbarium. 



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presented by the East India Company. They consist of about 1000 

 species or varieties from India, named, and mounted on writing-paper. 

 The arrangement we have adopted in classifying them is that of 

 Jussieu as improved by modern Botanists; the system in Lindley's 

 * Natural System,' second edition, being that followed. 



Besides the above, there are many smaller collections, illustrative of 

 the plants of particular countries or tribes. Thus there is a small col- 

 lection from the East, presented by Lord Macartney, arranged after the 

 Linnsean system, and for the most part named. 



Another, consisting of about 1000 specimens, contains many very 

 beautiful ones from the east and west coast of South Australia, from the 

 Blue Mountains, etc. ; likewise from Van Diemen's Land. 



There is a collection of about 1100 specimens brought by myself 

 from the United States ; a smaller one from certain parts of Spain ^ 

 and a general collection arranged after De CandoUe's Prodromus, con- 

 sisting of about 1900 specimens, the greater part of which were brouglit 

 by me from Switzerlaud and the contiguous parts of the Alps. 



It would be superfluous to enumerate many other detached collec- 

 tions which we possess ; but the following estimate of the number of 

 specimens may give an idea of the extent of the whole collection of dried 

 plants preserved at the Botanic Garden. 



Morison's • 

 Bobart'a? . 

 Sherard's . 



Da Boia' 



Dillenius', of cryptogamous 



Sibthorp'a . • • , 



Shaw's 



Lord Macartney** . 



5,319 



2,000 



14,792 



13,000 

 575 



1,59« 

 662 



867 



