388 PRESERVATION OF AN HERBARIUM. 



neatness. After several years' experience, I can find 

 no inconvenience from it whatever, nor do I see that 

 any dried plants can long be preserved without it. 



The herbarium is best kept in a dry room without 

 ,a constant fire. Linnaeus had a stone building for his 

 museum, remote from his dwelling-house, into which, 

 I have been told, neither fire nor candle was ever ad- 

 mitted, yet nothing can be more free than his collec- 

 tion from the injuries of dampness, or other causes of 

 decay. 



