LTNNEAN SOCIETY OF LOHDON. 2g 



(Trans, vol. xvi. pp. 755-7GO), and the purchase was ultimately 

 made on these terms. 



The financial history of the Society given on p. 42 shows how 

 heavily this burden o£ debt weighed upon the Society for nearly 

 forty years. The interest could not always be met, and by 1842 

 the total indebtedness reached to a pitch that a second sub- 

 scription was opened to lighten the burden of debt. This pro- 

 duced a sum of £994 3s. (Trans, vol. xix. pp. 496-497; Proc. 

 vol. i. pp. 149-150, 174) ; and although it somewhat relieved 

 the pressure, still left an amount of £900 due to the bond- 

 holders. 



From this time an occasional redemption of a bond of £100 

 decreased the sum payable as interest, until the year 1851, wdieu 

 the Society removed from Soho Square to apartments provided 

 gratuitously by the Grovernment at Burlington House, the costs 

 of removal being met by a general subscription. In 1859 the 

 first investment was made of .£300 in Consols, derived in part 

 from a legacy, the interest from which helped to neutralize 

 the drain caused by the bond-debt. In that year Robert 

 Brown, by will, ordered his two bonds to be given up to the 

 Society to be cancelled, a most welcome gift ; the last bond 

 was paid off in 1861. 



On the receipt of the herbarium by the Liunean Society steps 

 were taken to preserve tlie specimens from the Loudon atmo- 

 sphere. The plants had already been poisoned with corrosive 

 sublimate, and they were now enveloped in the wrappers which 

 are described below, and are familiar to all who have con- 

 sulted the herbarium. 



Extracts from the Reports of the Committee which advised 

 these methods of protection, follow : — 



Council Minutes, May 21st, 1836. 



" The Secretary reported that the Committee appointed to 

 inspect the state of tlie Liunean Herbarium had met and agreed 

 on the following Report : — 



"The Committee having inspected the Liunean Herbarium 

 have to report that they have ordered additional shelves, and the 

 papers holdmg Genera to be enclosed in brown paper haviug 

 cotton-cloth pasted on the inside of the folds. 



"The shelves to be numbered, and a Catalogue of the Genera 

 to be made in an alphabetical and systematic order. The space 

 between the shelves to be numbered, and a double row of numbers 

 corresponding to the spaces to be affixed to the central partition 

 in the Cabinets, these numbers to be inscribed in the Catalogue 

 opposite each genus . . . ." 



Council Minutes, April 5J 1836. 

 " On the motion of Mr. Ward, a Committee was appointed, con- 

 sisting of Mr. Ward, Mr. Brown, Mr. Forster, and Dr. Boott, 



