232 On the Museum of Practicai Geology of Great Britain. 
DicoryLeponovs. MonocoTyLeDonovs. 
Rudbeckia speciosa. Carex mirata. 
Coreopsis bidentoides. “ Grayii. 
Cirsium pumilum. Sporobolus compressus. 
Nabalus Boottii. 4: serotinus. 
Gaylussacia brachycera. Calamagrostis confinis. 
Utricularia clandestina. . Pickeringii. 
= resupinata, — brevipilis, 
Hemianthus micranthemoides. Dupontia Cooleyi. 
Pycnanthemum clinopodioides. Glyceria acutiflora. 
. i. oa alsodes. 
Asclepias Sullivantii. “  debilis. 
a Meadii 
Meadii. Amphicarpum Purshii. 
34 species = 71. 
(Zo be continued.) 
Arr. XVII.—Letter on the Museum of Practical Geology of Great 
Britain; by Sir Roperick I. Murcuison.* 
TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLY, &c. d&ec. 
Havine heard that Her Majesty’s Government proposes to re- 
move the Department of Science and Art, at present under the 
control of the Board of Trade, to the office of the Minister of 
the Crown-who may be élinectad with the education of the people, 
IT beg to be permitted to place on record a few observations on 
the effect which such a change may produce upon the establish- 
ment in Jermyn-Street, as consisting of the Geological Survey 
of the United Kingdom and its affiliated School of Mines and 
illustrative Museum. 
exposition of the views entertained by my associates and myself. 
will first recall to your Lordship’s notice, briefly, the origin 
of this establishment ‘and the objects which it was destined to 
__™* From a “Copy of Correspondence between the Director-General of the Geolog- 
ical Survey and the President of the Board of Trade and the Council of Education, 
relative to annexing a Museum of Practical Geology to the Department of Arts and 
