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has also a very fair botanical library ; although neither the 
one nor the other may be sufficient for a working botanist in 
the present day, nor is there at Naples any public botanical 
library to supply the deficiency.. Tenore’s collection- of 
Neapolitan and Sicilian plants is of course very rich: the 
whole herbarium is in bundles, arranged under the Linnæan 
classes. Professor Gussone, who is now also resident at 
Naples, has a general herbarium, but chiefly of plants of 
the Mediterranean region, and especially of Neapolitan and 
Sicilian plants, very carefully labelled, constituting the chief 
materials of his very accurate works on the Sicilian Flora, 
M. Gussone has also a botanical library, formed with special 
reference to the Mediterranean Flora. Dr. Gasparrini, having 
turned his attention a good deal to questions of physiology 
and general affinities, bestowed much care on the determina- 
tion and arrangement of his small herbarium according to the 
Natural Orders ; but being disgusted, in a great measure, by the 
want of any available botanical library, and desiring to devote 
What leisure he has rather to questions of pure physiology, 
he wishes now, I believe, to dispose of bis herbarium, which 
Would form an excellent commencement for a young 
botanist. | | 
At Palermo, the liberal invitations offered to the votaries 
9f botany both by nature and art, have, owing to various - 
Causes, been but poorly responded to by the botanists them- 
Selves. The climate and soil are perhaps the very best I am 
acquainted with for a magnificent collection of living plants: 
a site, not perhaps the best that could have been selected, 
but still a very fair one, has been appropriated to the bota- 
nical garden: a building, architecturally handsome enough to 
Taise the science in the opinion of the vulgar by showing the 
honour paid to it, has been erected as a lecture-room and - = 
museum; and funds have been appropriated to it,—small, it 
E What one would have expected. The necessity « fa a: 
. "rangement is admitted, and its adoption resolved. or 
