259 
In addition to £200 voted by the Court of Directors to pay for 
the paper on which the specimens were mounted, the sum of £80. 
was spent by the Linnean Society in glueing down the sheets and > 
before the anniversary meeting of the Society on 23rd May 1833 
£310 14s. had been spent on cabinets and other outgoings. Under 
this heading £5 more was spent subsequently. 
At folio 254 of the Catalogue occurs the following note by 
Dr. Wallich 
“admirable botanist has lately arrived in this country from India 
“with a magnificent harvest of dried plants, drawings and des- 
“criptions, a great proportion of which relate to the fruitful and 
“hitherto unexplored regions of Kunnower and Cashmere and will 
“be published by him without delay.” 
When Dr. Wallich retired from the service of the Hon. East 
India Company and returned to Europe he took up his abode in 
England and set about the completion of the list and of the dis- 
tribution. The supplement which begins on folio 269 of the 
Catalogue opens as follows :— 
“Numerical list of dried plants in the herbarium of the 
“ Honourable East India Company presented to the Linnean 
“ Society of London, continued from Dr. Wallich’s List. _ 
“ Kuphorbiaceae and other plants which on the first sorting were 
“ mixed with them and have been roughly arranged in species for 
“the purpose of distribution.” ; 
This supplementary distribution was in active progress during 
1847-49 and was completed by the end of the latter year, To a 
very great extent the accomplishment of this portion of his task 
was facilitated by the assistance which Wallich received from 
Bentham, acknowledged at folio 263 and again at folio 290 and 
300, in the following terms :— 
. 283. * I have to state with grateful thanks to Mr. Bentham, 
“that without his continued, most obliging and valuable assistance, 
“at his residence here, I should have been unable to index an 
“prepare the remnant of the East Indian Herbarium for its final 
“ distribution.—Pontrilas House, Hereford. 22nd Octob. 1847.— 
“N,. WaLLicu.” 
f. 290. “I have again to return my grateful thanks to my 
“friend G, Bentham, Esq., for having enabled me to proceed with 
“the East Indian Herbarium.—Pontrilas House, Hereford. 5th 
* August, 1848.—N, WALLICH.” 
f. 300. “Before leaving my friend Mr, Bentham and his noble 
“herbarium, I have again and lastly to express my most grateful 
“ thanks to him for that distinguished assistance by which alone I 
“ have been enabled to bring this catalogue to a conclusion.——Pontrilas 
“ House, near Hereford. 10th September, 1849.—N. Watricu.” 
Dr. Otto Kuntze, who has made a careful study of the Catalogue 
issued by Wallich, as apart from the specimens with which the 
Catalogue deals, has given an account of the work in his Revisie 
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