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different portions, proceeded. In this dispersion, though 

 aided by the most zealous Botanists in England, and by M. 

 Alphonse De Candolle from Geneva, and Professor Kunth 

 from Berlin, Dr. Wallich's personal labour has been very 

 great : yet he scarcely relaxed for a single day. The entire 

 examination of many species, in order to the formation of a 

 complete catalogue, with numbers corresponding to the 

 specimens distributed, was in itself a work of no ordinary 

 stamp; and this has been executed in lithography and 

 written with Dr. Wallich's own hand. But his Magnum 

 Opus, and that on which Dr. Wallich's fame as a Botanist 

 may safely rest, is his PlmitcB AsiaticcB Rariores ; a work, 

 which, whether for the beauty or rarity and interest of the 

 subjects, the execution of the plates, or the accuracy of the 

 descriptions, is surpassed by no publication of this, or any 

 other period. Already, four Fasciculi have appeared, each 

 with twenty-five plates, on an imperial folio size, and fifty 

 closely-printed pages of letterpress. Eight more Fasciculi 

 will complete the work. It is not possible to conceive how Dr. 

 Wallich can have accomplished so laborious a task, amidst 

 all his other important employments, but by the consideration 

 that many of these materials were completed while the author 

 was yet resident in India. 



There were still lying at the India House, very extensive 

 collections of plants, made by other Botanists in the Com- 

 pany's possessions; and duplicates of these. Dr. Wallich 

 likewise urged the Directors to distribute in the same manner 

 as was done with his own : and here again his wishes have 

 been complied with. When Dr. Wallich had completed as 

 far as No. 2159, the following announcement was made of 

 this circumstance : — 



" Since the preceding sheets were printed, the undermen- 

 tioned Herbaria have been added, from the East India Com- 

 pany's museum, to the collection brought home by Dr. Wal- 

 lich, principally with a view to the distribution of their 

 duplicates. They will be indicated in the manner noticed 

 below. 



