384 BOTANY : ITS POSITION AND PROSPECTS 



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 a well educated and passable Botanist would be tolerated for 

 his own sake, but a really zealous ditto, well educated else- 

 where, and commanding the respect and esteem of men J 

 of science in general, must I should say force a proper j 

 appreciation of Botany in the University. 



Similarly a personal conference between Hooker, Henslow, 

 Lemann ^ (who was preparing to break up his collections and 

 distribute the fragments where most wanted), and the Cam- 

 bridge authorities, estabhshed the other collection at the sister 

 University. As he tells Bentham, who arranged the Herbarium : 



Henslow scouting the idea of valuing the species or 

 specimens because they were uniques has told well, and 

 proved to the Dons that such collections have other and a 

 higher value than old china. I must say they express them- 

 selves Hberally and well. 



1 Charles Morgan Lemann (1806-52), M.D. Camb. 1833, F.L.S. 1831, 

 F.R.C.P. 1836, collected in Madeira 1837-8 and at Gibraltar 1840-1, and pre- 

 sented his Herbarium of 30,000 specimens to Cambridge University. He wrote, 

 but did not publish, a Flora of Madeira. The genus Carlemannia was named 

 after him by Bentham. 



