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South Australia, Victoria, Sydney, and Queensland, and one to St. 
Helena. Large packets of seeds of hardy shrubs and trees have been 
sent to TV. Australia, Queensland, the Sandwich Islands, etc. 
3. Museums. — The arrangement of the collection of woods in mu- 
seum No. 3, has been proceeded with ; the floor has been matted; the 
wall specimens protected by a hand-rail ; a great number of the largest 
specimens have been repolished, and all reticketed ; the Welwitschias 
enclosed in a glass case ; and the central timber trophy rearranged. 
Valuable contributions have been received, as follows : — His Excel- 
lency the late Duke of Malakoff : a large collection of Algerian woods. 
Messrs. Piesse and Lubin : vegetable substances used for scenting tea 
in China. Dr. Welwitsch : a very valuable named collection of Ben- 
gnelh and Angola woods, fruits, etc. Captains Speke and Grant : Cen- 
tral African seeds, etc. His Grace the Duke of Somerset : Japan Pine 
cones. D. Hanbury, Esq. : manna of Brian9on. J. Haast, Esq. : a 
specimen of the vegetable sheep of the New Zealand Alps. Messrs. 
Haage and Schmidt, of Erfurt : cones of Fir22{$ Veiice^ which have ena- 
bled us to prove that this rare plant, w'liich in Europe is confined to a 
single mountain in Turkey, is the same as the Himalaya P, exceha. 
Dr. Kotschy, of Vienna : a beautiful named collection of oriental Acorns. 
Eight Hon. E. Cardwell, and his Grace the late Duke of Newcastle : 
cones of Araucaria Bidwillii. Professor Brew^er, of California : a mag- 
nificent photograph of the Wellingtonia forest. Mrs. Boott: portrait 
in oils of Michaux, the author of ' The American Sylva;' and a bust 
of the late Sir J. E. Smith, the founder of the Linnsean Societv and 
formerly possessor of the library and collection of Linnaeus. 
4. Herbarium and Library, — The scientific duties of the Royal Gar- 
dens continue to be the most onerous connected with the establish- 
ment, owing to the incessant demands for the names of plants in our 
own and other gardens, and of those collected by travellers and ex- 
plorers on Government and other expeditions, and for information as 
to economic plants and vegetable products, in addition to the exten- ' 
sive and ever-increasing colonial and foreign correspondence and pub- 
.lications. The principal works done in this department, or in con- 
nection with it, have been — 1. The publication of the second volume 
of the Flora of the Australian Colonies, by G. Bentham, Esq., assisted 
by Dr. Mueller, of Victoria, who continues to send his own Herbarium 
for examination, and all the newly-discovered plants as they are re- 
