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with the corresponding portions of the Society’s other collections, and 
most of the books in the general library. Only a small number of the 
books, consisting entirely of his own works and enriched by his manu- 
script annotations (not including, however, his academical disputations), 
together with all the Linnean manuscripts, are kept separately from 
the rest, and placed in the same room which contains his herbarium, 
together with Sir J. E. Smith’s and the grand herbarium presented by 
the East India Company*. Externally the Linnean Herbarium is the 
least pretending among these collections. It still continues in the 
same three plain, green-painted presses, in which our great master 
had originally placed the specimens as they poured in from his grate- 
ful disciples from all parts of the world. They are five to six ells 
(Swed.) in height, exclusive of their standt; each having two vertical 
rows or partitions. The only alteration that has been made, was per- - : 
emptorily called for by the change of locality from Upsala to London. 
In order to protect the specimens from soot and dust, everything that 
could be thought of has been done, and with a degree of solicitude 
which, while it evinces a just estimate of their great value, has served 
to keep them in a perfect state of preservation; and this is the only 
point on which the herbarium differs from the state in which it was in 
Linneus’s time. The doors of the presses have been made to fit more 
tightly by means of list, and the entire herbarium has been divided 
into about 700 packets, not above half an inch in diameter, each en- 
per lined with cloth, and easily 
closed in a wrapper made of brown pa 
being taken out without injury. 
opened so as to admit of the specimens 
Near the cover of each wrapper is glued a label with the name and 
number of the genus or genera it contains written on it; and two, 
sometimes three, such packets are bound together with green tape into | 
one, of about an inch thick. On opening the presses, these packets are — 
seen arranged in two upright rows, and here and there separated from —— 
each other by thin fixed boards. When it happens that a genus is - 
numerous it is subdivided into several packets. Thus protected, the - 
herbarium remains undisturbed in its old arrangement according to the 
* Dr. Hartmann explains in a note, that a very erroneous idea is current in jx 
Sweden, to the effect that the Banksian collections are likewise $^ the Linnean So- 
ciety’s possession. The real state of the case is so well known in this country that 
it is unnecessary to give the note i” extenso.—ED. 
+ The exact height is 7 feet 6 inches; the stand, which they have in common 
with Sir J. E. Smith's herbarium, is 7 inches high.—En. — . : l 
