346 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 



enlarged the domain of science ; whilst his systematic and micro- 

 scopical researches into their structure and the classification of 

 the vast natural family to which they belong have been extended 

 to species from every quarter of the globe. The herbarium in 

 question contains type specimens of the microscopic and other 

 vegetable parasites, whose effects have been known from time 

 immemorial, but the nature of most of which has been determined 

 only within the last half century ; and it illustrates his numerous 

 published contributions to the * Journal of the Eoyal Horticultm-al 

 Society,' the 'Gardeners' Chronicle,' Linnean Society's Journal and 

 Transactions, and many other works of a like nature. As 

 examples of the value to the country of Mr. Berkeley's labours, it 

 needs only to allude to the potato, vine, hop, and onion diseases, 

 upon which he has written valuable memoirs and suggested 

 remedies ihat have earned for him the gratitude of his countrymen 

 and the recognition of the Government. 



Mr. Berkeley's herbarium is of great extent, in perfect order 

 and preservation, and he is now occupied with its transference to 

 Kew, to which it is presented. 



The herbarium of the late N. J. Dalzell, Esq., of the Hon. 

 East India Company's service, has be n presented by his widow. 

 As containing the type specimens of 'The Bombay Flora,' a 

 work published by himself and the late Dr. Gibson, it is of special 

 interest. It contains upwards of 1200 species, and many dupli- 

 cates ; and its contents have been shared with the herbariums of 

 the Botanical Gardens of Calcutta and Saharnnpore, 



M. E. Cosson, of Paris, has been a most liberal contributor to 

 the Kew Herbarium for very many years. His gifts during the 

 present year amount to nearly 2000 species, chiefly from Southern 

 Algeria, ^Morocco, and Eastern Persia, on the borders of Afghan- 

 istan, wlii h latter, collected by the veteran botanist and traveller, 

 Bunge, are of especial interest. 



Other contributions of exceptional interest are Godefroy-Lebeuf's 

 Cambodian plants ; Wclwitsch's Angolan, &c. (from the Portuguese 

 Government); Post's Syrian ; Burbidge's Bornean, j)i'esented by 

 Messrs. Veitch, and containing a magnificent series of pitcher- 

 plants ; Hildebrandt's tropical E. African; and many Central 

 African were from Dr. Kirk, Col. Grant, Mr. Wakefield, &c. 



Mr. John Miers, F.R.S., the eminent South American traveller 

 and botanist, has presented the duplicates of his extensive 

 herbarium. It contains many types of his published X)lants of 

 Chili, Brazil, and the Argentine Provinces. 



M. Casimir DeCandolle has presented a valuable set of tracings 

 of drawings of Awidtur,, and Mr. W. Saunders, F.R.S., photograi3hs 

 of upwards of 70 species of Agave. 



The very complete collection of cones and leaves of Pines 

 belonging to ^Ir. George Gordon, late of the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society's Gardens, has been j)reseiited by the Director, and 

 deposited, the cones in the Museum, and the foliage specimens in 

 the Herbarium. It contains the type specimens of almost every 

 species described in Gordon's Piuetum, a standard work amongst 



