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and not far from the Old Castle. The location is not the very 
me. The p 
tate weeding, and where the plants had grown up, the rings had 
developed into nice, bouquet-like bunches. Under the new direc- 
torship of Saw Kjellman, a veseanecaicnt of the systematic 
order has been begun; the work was in progress when I was 
there. te sequence is to be that of Engler & Prantl’s “ Natiir- 
lichen Pflanzen-Familien,” the same as adopted b 
The garden also contains a conservatory, ihe residence 
of the head-gardener and a museum-laboratory. This is a curious 
old-fashioned [J shaped bailing with the hottom of the 
v The northwes 
a ryptogamic 
lections, a result principally of the work of the two Fries, father 
and son. Itis hoped that the large collections of the present 
director, Professor Kjellman, will be secured by the institution in 
the near future. Unfortunately, eee possesses very little 
the collections of Linnaeus, which were mostly bought by . 
Linnaean Society of Londor 
he botanical garden ae collections at Christiania, ; are per- 
ai 
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avia. is 
the fault of the men in charge; for Professor Wille is indeed an 
energetic man, and his predecessor, Professor Blytt, was very 
