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by L. C. Treviranus — translated from the German in the Linna^a, by 

 the Rev. M. J. Berkeley. 



Readily will it be inferred from the titles of these articles, that they 

 can have no particular interest in the eyes of those who devote their 

 attention, principally or exclusively, to the Botany of our own islands. 

 And, indeed, the miscellaneous, and often very inexact notes on plants, 

 made during the time of journeying in foreign lands, can afford interest 

 to very few general botanists ; while isolated descriptions of new 

 genera and species, and " reviews of families," important though 

 they may be with relation to the progress of science, can still interest 

 but a small section of the botanical world. We are mostly content, 

 therefore, to indicate by their titles, to the readers of the Thy tologist,' 

 that such papers have been published, and can be seen by those who 

 require to see them. But some few extracts, culled from the tours 

 and travels, may instruct or amuse our readers. 



The Editor's anonymous friend, dating from Stockholm, thus al- 

 ludes to the Linnean relics, preserved in London : — " We went with 

 Professor Fries to see the house in which Linna3us lived, and the gar- 

 den where he cultivated his ' Hort. Upsal.' plants, now no longer 

 belonging to the family; but in which the buildings used by this great 

 father of modern Botany, as green houses and lecture-room, still ex- 

 ist ; and a poplar-tree, known to be planted by his own hands, is 

 shown with great reverence. Proud though we be in England of pos- 

 sessing his collections, it is impossible to be at Upsala, where so much 

 is associated with his name, to see the respect paid to his memory, 

 and the value attached to the few manuscripts or other remembrances 

 of him which they have been able to amass, without feeling that this 

 is the place where his library and herbarium ought to be, and that if 

 they had been here, the botanical world would long since have known 

 what information can or cannot be derived from the specimens pre- 

 served, and as a tribute to his extraordinary genius, such of his manu- 

 scripts as are really interesting or curious, (and they are not a few), 

 would have been given to the public, instead of lying unknown in the 

 attics of our Linnean Society." (No. 58, p. 259). 



The same writer incidentally lets slip the following pointed remark 

 in allusion to a bad custom which has so much increased of late. " It 

 is a great pity that the great mass of matter (about thirty folio volumes) 

 ready for his Enumeration, which Vahl left at his premature death, 

 was never published. His descriptions are amongst the most accurate 

 I know amongst descriptions of species, so much better than descrip- 



