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12 Notices of European Herbaria. 
rium of an active botanist, are apt to be soiled by frequent use. 
The paper employed by Dr. Lindley is 184 inches in length, and 
114 inches wide, which, as he has himself remarked, is rather 
larger than is necessary, and much too expensive for general use. 
The herbarium of Sir Wm. J. Hooker, at Glasgow, is not only 
the largest and most valuable collection in the world, in the pos- 
session of a private individual, but it also eerie’ the richest 
collection of North American plants in Europe. Here we find 
nearly complete sets of the plants collected in the Arctic voyages 
of discovery, the overland journeys of Franklin to the polar sea, 
the collections of Drummond and Douglas in the Rocky Moun- 
tains, Oregon, and California, as well as those of Prof. Scouler, 
Mr. Tolmie, Dr. Gairdner, and numerous officers of the Hudson’s 
Bay Company, from almost every part of the vast territory em- 
braced in their operations, from one side of the continent to the 
other. By an active and prolonged correspondence with nearly 
all the botanists and lovers of plants in the United States and 
Canada, as well as by the collections of travellers, this herbarium 
is rendered unusually rich in the botany of this country; while 
Drummond’s Texan collections, and many contributions from 
Mr. Nuttall and others, very fully represent the flora of our south- 
ern and western confines. ‘That these valuable materials have 
not been buried, nor suffered to accumulate to no purpose or ad- 
vantage to science, the pages of the Flora Boreal-Americana, 
the Botanical Magazine, the Botanical Miscellany, the Journal — 
of Botany, the Icones Plantarum, and other works of this in- 
dustrious botanist abundantly testify ; and no single herbarium 
will afford the student of North American botany such extensive 
aid as that of Sir Wm. Hooker. 
The herbarium of Dr. Arnott af Arlary, although more espe- 
cially rich and authentic in Hast Indian plants, is also interentilie © 
to the North American botanist, as well for the plants of the Bot- 
any Z Capt. Beechey’s Foyuse; &c., published by Hooker and — 
himself, as the collections of Draminiond and others, all of whi 
have been carefully studied by this sagacious botanist. 
The most important botanical collection in Paris, and indeed, 
perhaps the largest in the world, is that of the Royal Museum, at 
the Jardin des Plantes or Jardin du Roi. We cannot now de 
vote even a passing notice to the garden and magnificent new coll- 
servatories of this noble institution, much less to the menagerie, 
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