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Journal for 1913 (p. 358). I have verified these notes, which may 

 be tabulated as follows : — 



( [Flora, 1851, p. 302, and 

 Fasc. 1 = pp. 1-106; March, 1851 Wikstrom, .Irs^^era^^. 1851, 



( p. 133 (1855).] 

 „ 2= „ 107-270; 1852 [Wikstrom, ^. c] 



([Gramineae (p. 341) bears date 

 Febr. 1854 ; see also Wikstr. 

 op. ciL, 1853-54, p. 125 

 (1856).] 

 [ [Lichenes (p. 427) and Colle- 

 „ 4= „ 395-522; 1857 macese (p. 491) bear date 



I Febr. 1856.] 

 The enumeration of the Hepatic®, excerpted from vol. v. of 

 Verhandl. dcr K. Akademic Wettcnschcqjpen, 1857, and included in 

 fasc. 4, terminates abruptly. It was evidently intended to issue a 

 completion of the work, for van den Bosch in vol. ix. of the work 

 just cited (" Hymenophyllacege Javanicse," 1861) and in Nederl. 

 Kruidk. Archie/, iv. (" Synopsis Hymenophyllacearum," 1859) 

 quotes pp. 545-571 of " fasc. 5, ined." -^ ^ Wiltsheae. 



LVI. — "The Department of Botany." 



The account of the Department of Botany occupies pp. 79-193 

 of the first volume of The History of the Collections contained in 

 the Nat2iral History Departments of the British Museum which 

 was published in 1904. It is divided into three portions : — 

 1. General Sketch (pp. 79-84) ; 2. Chronological Account of tho 

 Principal Accessions to the Botanical Collections to the end of 

 1902 (pp. 85-128) ; 3. Alphabetical List of the more important 

 contributions to the Collection of Plants in the Department of 

 Botany (pp. 129-193). It is stated in the Preface to the volume 

 that the section was undertaken by " Mr. George Murray, assisted 

 by Mr. Britten " : Mr. Murray's name is appended to it at the 

 foot of p. 193 ; and on p. 84 is a note : " Mr. Murray desires to 

 state that advantage has been taken of Mr. Britten's unique 

 knowledge of the history of the botanical collections. He, with 

 Mr. Gepp's help, has completed the work." 



How far this represents the facts of the case is sufficiently 

 well known to those who were officially employed in the Depart- 

 ment at the time of the preparation of the work ; but it may be 

 worth while to place these facts on permanent record. With the 

 exception of the second section, which was transcribed from the 

 records of accessions by Mr. F. G. Wiltshear, now in charge of 

 the Departmental Library, the whole of the work was done by 

 myself, with the help of Mr. Gepp in regard to the collections 

 of Cryptogams. Mr. Murray's only part in the book was the 

 addition of his autograph and the note quoted above, which was 

 added, though not in the form that we had accepted as satis- 

 factory, in consequence of representations made to him by Mr. 

 Gepp and myself. Mr. Murray did not even read the proofs, 

 although he officially passed them for press. James Britten. 



