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of tliis iiidustiious botanist abuiiJaiitly testify; and no single 

 lierbarium will afford the student of North American botanv 

 such extensive aid as that of Sir Wm. Hooker. 



Tiie herbarium of l)r Arnott of Arlary, alifioiioh more 

 especially rich and authentic in East Indian plants, is aho 

 interestinij to the North American botanist, as well for the 

 plants of the Botani/ of Captain Beechep's Voyage^ &c., pub- 

 lished by Hooker and himself, as the collection of Drummond 

 and others, all of which have been carefully studied by this 

 sagacious botanist. 



The most important botanical collection in Paris, and in- 

 deed perhaps the largest in the world, is that of the Royal 

 Museum, at the Jar dm des Plantes or Jard'tn du Roi. We 

 cannot now devote even a passing notice to the garden and 

 maiinificent new conservatories of this noble institution, much 

 less to the menagerie, the celebrated museum of zoology and 

 anatomy, or the cabinet of mineralogy, geology, and fossil 

 remains, which, newly arranged in a building recently erected 

 for its reception, has just been thrown open to the public. 

 The botanical collections occupy a portion of this new build- 

 xnrr. A lar<Te room on the first floor, handsomely fitted up 

 with glass cases, contains the cabinet of fruits, seeds, sections 

 of stems, and curious examples of vegetable structure from 

 every part of the known world. Among them we find an in- 

 teresting suite of specimens of the wood, and another com- 

 prising the fruits, or nuts, of nearly all the trees of this 

 country, both collected and prepared by the younger Mi- 

 chaux. I'he herbaria now occupy a large room or hall, im- 

 mediately over the former, perhaps 80 feet long, and 30 feet 

 wide above the galleries, and very conveniently lighted from 

 the roof. Beneath the galleries are four or five small rooms 

 on each side, lighted from the exterior, used as cabinets for 

 study and for separate herbaria, and above them the same 

 number of smaller rooms or closets, occupied by duplicate 

 and unarranged collections. The cases which contain the 

 herbaria occupy the walls of the large hall and of the side- 

 vooms. Their plan may serve as a specimen of that generally 



