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A large drawing of a beautifully trained Peach-tree. By M. Alexis 

 Lepere. 



From Miss Lindley : — 



Butler's Sketch of jNIodern and Ancient Geography. A new edition. 



8vo. 

 Wiitts's Logic; or, the Right Use of Reason. 12mo. 1807. 

 And some other works of instruction. 



From Edward Beck, Esq., F.H.S. : — 



A smooth slab of Slate for use during the Lectures in the Reading- 

 room. 



From Captain Widdrington, R.N., F.H.S. : — 

 Spain and the Spaniards in 1843. 2 vols. 8vo. 



From the Vice-Secretary : — 



Fortune's Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of 



China ; including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries, 



&c. 8vo. 1847. 

 Lindley's Elements of Botany. Fifth edition. 8vo. 1847. 

 Thomson's Seasons, with Notes by Dr. A. T. Thomson. 12mo. 



1847. 

 The Forester. By James Brown, Forester, Arniston. 12nio. 1847. 

 Wight's Spicilegium Neilgherrense ; or, a Selection of Neilgherry 



Plants. 4to. Vol. L 

 Sir Thomas Mitchell's Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of 

 • Tropical Australia, in search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf 



of Carpentaria. 8vo. 1848. 



The Library now consists of 432 bound volumes, exclusive of pamphlets 

 and unbound periodicals. 



The number of visitors to the Garden, exclusive of the days of exhibi- 

 tion, has been 6380 — a smaller number than usual, in consequence of the 

 exclusion of visitors by tickets on the days preceding the Exhibitions. 



The distribution of plants, packets of seeds, and parcels of cuttings from 

 the Garden has been as follows : — 



A number exceeding that of 1846 by 73 plants, 1580 packets of seeds, and 

 939 parcels of cuttings. The Garden Committee have directed Mr. Munro, 

 in making this distribution, to keep in view as far as possible the principle 

 of not propagating plants that are readily procurable in the nurseries, and 

 also that applications are to be complied with according to the order in 

 which they are made. The Committee cannot, however, authorize the dis- 

 tribution of plants without any application whatever being made ; and they 

 are anxious to impress upon the minds of the Fellows of the Society, espe- 

 cially of those residing in the country, that if they do not make known 

 their wishes for plants, it is not in the power of the Committee to supply 

 their wants. 



