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|j*^HE Herharium, which has been collected under the able 

 superintendence, and in great measure by the exertions 

 of the Rev. T. A. Preston, (of Marlboroug-h College, and Local 

 Secretary for that district,) already consists of the goodly number 

 of 700 sheets of specimens, embracing some 500 species : and our 

 very best thanks are due to Mr. Preston, for the zeal and perse- 

 verance with which he has hitherto been working in this direction, 

 almost unaided, in our behalf. But as a complete collection of the 

 botanical treasures of the county can only be looked for by the co- 

 operation of many observers in their several districts, Mr. Preston is 

 anxious to enlist the assistance of other botanists in various localities 

 throughout the county : and we therefore hereby beg leave to invite 

 the attention of all who are interested in the great science of botany, 

 in all parts of the county, to the work now in progress under the 

 skilful hands of Mr. Preston, and to entreat them to forward such 

 specimens, and communicate such information as they may consider 

 useful, to that gentleman, and so advance the completion of the 

 Society's Herbarium. Address : — llev. T. A. Preston, The Green, 

 Marlborough. [A.C.S.] 



^HE Museum and Library premises at Devizes are now ready 

 for the reception of books, pictures, drawings and engravings, 

 also of antiquities, and of specimens illustrative of the general and 

 natural history of the County of Wilts. 



Articles may be deposited in accordance with Rule xx. (See 

 Wiltshire Magazine, vol. i.) 



The Council hope that contributions will be sent in as early as 

 convenient, in order that they may be arranged and labelled prepara- 

 tory to the opening meeting. 



H. r. & E. BULL, Printers and Publishers, 4, Saint John Street Devizes. 



