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 18^ inches in length, and 

 11^ 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 comprises 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 B or eali- 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 of Arlary, although more espe- 

 cially rich and authentic in East Indian plants, is also interesting 

 to the North American botanist, as well for the plants of the Bot- 

 any of Capt. Beechey^s Voyage, &c,, published by Hooker and 

 himself, as the collections of Drummond and others, all of which 

 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 Hoi. We cannot now de- 

 vote even a passing notice to the garden and magnificent new con- 

 servatories of this noble institution, much less to the menagerie, 



