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Monograpli published in the * Botanical Grazette ' (vol. ii. pp. 113, 

 147), numerous specimens have been laid in from it belonging to 

 other families ; and thus in the case of species likewise occurring in 

 the northern counties, obtained from the Winch collection, we 

 have been assisted a little step in the illustration of their geo- 

 graphical extension. Mr. Babington has also presented a large 

 and important parcel, consisting chiefly of rare species, with many 

 of the critical plants which so much occupy the attention of 

 British botanists*. Especially for this addition to the collection, 

 and also for the time and care which Mr. Babington has devoted 

 to going through the Society's Herbarium in order to check the 

 nomenclature, not a little of its value is due. 



A few large and difficult genera yet remain to be worked up 

 with reference to our present knowledge ; these will probably be 

 undertaken by competent botanists before long. The Buhi Mr. 

 Babington has consented to label in accordance with the names to 

 be adopted in his forthcoming Monograph of the British species. 



With regard to the mode of arrangement adopted, the paper em- 

 ployed for mounting upon measures about 14|- by 9^ ins., too small, 

 perhaps, but necessarily uniform with that of the Smithian Her- 

 barium contained in the adjoining cabinet. The sheets are marked 

 for ready reference near the right-hand bottom corner, with the 

 number of the species in the ' London Catalogue of British Plants,' 

 which we have made use of as a convenient index to the collec- 

 tion. The mounted specimens are placed in folded sheets of 

 tinted card-board "genus-covers;" these are also numbered con- 

 secutively, corresponding to a second numbering (of the genera) 

 in the bound and interleaved copy of the * Catalogue' kept on one 

 of the lower shelves. The covers slide into fixed partitions mea- 

 suring about 6 inches in depth, over which the doors of the 

 beautifully constructed cabinet closely shut. The marks sug- 

 gested by Jos. Woods in his ' Tourist's Flora ' are made use of 

 to indicate in the ' Catalogue ' the more or less perfect state of 

 the specimens representing each species respectively. Care has 

 been taken to have all the plants poisoned before being laid 

 away. 



It may not be out of place to add that, with a view to the 

 further completion of the Society's great Indian Herbarium, the 

 valuable collection formed in Java and Sumatra by the late 



* A second packet, since received from the same gentleman, contains a nearly 

 complete set of his " Eubl." 



