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botanists by the Messrs. Bentall, of Halstead, in the manufacture of a 

 paper perfectly adapted to the drying of plants. This had long been 

 our chief desideratum, and it is now thoroughly supplied : there 

 will no longer be any excuse for those discoloured, distorted, unin- 

 telligible specimens which previously constituted the bulk of all our 

 herbaria. I hope that in thus bearing my humble testimony to the 

 merits of Messrs. Bentalls' paper, botanists will not suspect me of 

 mercenary motives. The small revenue derived from the sale of this 

 paper in London would not induce me to recommend it: but justice 

 to the inventors demands that the influence of the ' Phy tologist ' 

 should be employed in extending as much as possible the utility of 

 their labours. 



EDWARD NEWMAN. 



9, Devonshire Street, Bishopsgate, 

 November, 1845. 



