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Special [EXHIBITION 
For the Twenty-fifth Anniversary celebration, the hbrary ar- 
ranged an exhibition of books and manuscripts illustrating the 
history of botany. Wall and floor cases and two long tables were 
utilized to display volumes open at interesting pages, plates, por- 
traits, autographs, etc. In this connection an annotated list was 
description of each item and its importance 
prepared, giving a bricf 
to the scientific world. This was published as the July number 
of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Recorp, and has proved a con- 
venient check-list to the material. 
The exhibit was divided into groups as Incunabula, other pre- 
Linnean works, Linnean first editions, post-Linnean botanical 
classics, books of association interest, Darwiniana, autographs and 
autograph letters, and the publications of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden. 
One of the most interesting items was the copy of the “ Quar- 
terly Review ” for July, 1860, containing a virulent review of the 
“ Origin of Species.” The authorship was later acknowledged by 
Samuel Wilberforce, then Bishop of Oxford. The article is ac- 
