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more recent researches almost threefold. Of the ‘Fragmenta Phy- 
tographie Australie,’ the sixth volume has also been completed last 
year, and the seventh is commenced. Within the few next years I 
trust it will be in my power, if Providence grants me life and strength, 
to issue, on the plants of each of the Australian colonies, a special 
volume, for which much preliminary work has been done. 
The library became also lately further enlarged, but mainly on the 
irector’s private means. Personal travelling expenses since 1852, 
e 
and many other official expenses, as well as the courtesies which are 
demanded from a public department frequented by very numerous 
visitors, have also ever solely and readily been defrayed from the ad- 
ministrator’s own resources, who, not for any selfish purposes whatever, 
ventures to place these facts, after the lapse of many years, on record, 
but simply in justice to himself, because the obligations devolving on 
him in maintaining the efficiency and dignity of the department seem 
not at all understood. 
When now long past the zenith of ordinary life, he can with fairness 
assert, that thirty of his best years have been absorbed almost entirely 
in phytologie and cognate pursuits; that almost seventeen years have 
been devoted cheerfully and exclusively to the main foundation and on 
struggling services of his department, and this, he may add, with the 
sole aim of endeavouring to effect some lasting good to the great 
country which, since twenty-two years, he adopted as his permanent 
ome. 
FERDINAND VON MUELLER. 
REVISION OF THE GENUS SANGUISORBA. 
By PROFESSOR ALEXANDER Braun AND C. Bovcnuf, Esq. 
(From Index Sem, Hort. Bot. Berol. 1868.) 
SANGUISORBA, Tabernem.; J. Bauh. (1651); Scopoli (1760); 
Wiggers (1780); Spenner et Schimper (1829); Moretti (1833); 
Cesati (1841). Pimpinella, C. Bauh. (1623); Tournef. (1719); 
Haller 0j Geertner (1788). — Poterium, Benth. et Hooker, Gen. 
Pl. (186 
