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a most curious French translation of the famous De his- 
toria stirpium); Jordan et Fourreau, /cones ad Floram Europae ; 
Schrank and Mayrhoffer, Flora Monacensis ; Sibthorpe, Florae 
Graeca, the picce de résistance of the sale ; Svensk Botanik ; Grise- 
bach, Spicilegium Florae Rumeticae ct Bithynicae ; Jacquin, Oxalis 
monographia tconibus illustrata, and a number of other large illus- 
trated works, The remainder of the purchase was made up of 
several serial publications, local European floras, a long list of 
catalogues of plants of botanic gardens, some horticultural works 
and other miscellaneous material. 
Of the important books of the sale the Flora Gracca excited 
the most interest, both on account of its rarity as well as the ex- 
ceeding beauty of its 966 colored plates and the exquisite frontis- 
pieces of the ten folio volumes. 
The Hortus botanicus Vindobonensis and the Flora Monacensis 
accorded a second place in the sale are equally sought after and 
but rarely to be found on the market. The Hortus Vindoboucnsis 
is said to have been issued in an edition of 162 copies of whic 
the Jordan copy is No. 74. 
The business connected with the sale and the negotiations for 
the storing and subsequent packing and shipping of the books 
was duly attended to and towards the end of May they were de- 
spatched to the Garden. 
During my stay of a month in Paris a number of book-shops 
were visited to procure a long list of desiderata that had been pre- 
pared for the purpose and I was able to secure over one hundred 
more volumes of varied botanical interest, including several 
North American local floras that do not appear in the bibliog- 
raphies. 
Several visits were also made to the Laboratoire de Botanique 
of the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle where I deposited the gift of 
fossil plants which you had sent by me to that institution. I 
was received there very kindly by M. Bureau the Conservateur 
and his associates and I arranged with him a series of future ex- 
changes, both herbarium specimens and fossil plants. Among 
the former, we were promised some duplicates of the older South 
American collections which are not represented in the Herbarium 
