470 BOTANICAL INTELLIGENCE. [Murck, 



of London, we beg to inform them that what is now called 

 EusTON Road cannot be very far from St. Pancras New Church, 

 Euston Square, nor very distant from the terminus of the Lon- 

 don and North- Western Railway, — both cardinal points of Lon- 

 don topography. 



The object of this new society, as is well expressed in the cir- 

 cular, is to assist the members in the study of British plants, by 

 organized excursions, by exchange of specimens, communication 

 of papers, the formation of a herbarium, library, etc. etc. 



The estimated cost of these great objects may be very mo- 

 derate : for example, the members may soon collect a herbarium, 

 which will cost them no more than the paper in which the spe- 

 cimens are kept, or on which they are mounted ; excursions will 

 cost nothing, and botanical communications may be had equally 

 cheap ; and a hundred half-crowns judiciously expended every 

 year will soon purchase a good botanical library. 



The contributions or payments of the members are on the 

 lowest possible scale, viz. half-a-crown for entrance and the same 

 for the annual subscription. 



It is gratifying to hear that the promoters are actuated by so 

 liberal a spirit. Their moderation guarantees success to the new 

 association. The cost will not deter any botanist from enrolling 

 himself as a member of a society which is to be conducted on so 

 economic principles. 



Their society will not go to pieces like the defunct Botanical 

 Society of London, which split and foundered on the rocks of ex- 

 travagance, conceit, and mismanagement. The half-crown entry •• 

 fees and the same amount of yearly payments will not tempt the 

 society to ornament their council chamber with oil paintings of 

 the leading or influential members. One hundred or even two 

 hundred half-crowns would not go far in paying the artist's bill 

 for portraits of the president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary, 

 and curator and other patrons of the society. 



Such a society as this supplies, as has been stated, a real want. 

 The former society, which was founded about thirty years ago, did 

 good service to the amateur members of the fraternity, and if it 

 had not fallen into the hands of incapable managers it might be 

 in active operation at this day. 



We will not take the liberty of lecturing the members of the 

 new association, though in past times our attention has been often 



