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Celestino Mutis, part of which was made in New Spain by 

 Sesse and Mocino ; and that which Don Tadeo Haenke 

 formed in South America, the whole of which, by previous 

 orders of government, is to be added to the herbarium of 

 the Flora of Peru and Chili, when this work shall have been 

 published, as well as that which remains of the Flora of Mexico. 

 The herbarium was moreover increased yearly with the new or 

 rare plants which were reared in the garden itself, and with 

 those sent by the various correspondents of the establishment. 



The garden of Madrid also possesses the magnificent col- 

 lection of drawings from the botanical expedition of Santa Fe 

 de Bogota, which, during the period of forty years, was under 

 the care of the celebrated Don Jose Celestino Mutis, and 

 which, if my recollection does not fail me, consisted of 6969 

 drawings, half of which are in black, and the other half 

 coloured, but all executed in the most superior style ; there are 

 also several manuscripts by Mutis, and a few by the unfor- 

 tunate Don Jose de Caldas ; a great number of specimens of 

 the woods which are found in the kingdom of New Granada, 

 now Columbia, and some boxes of fruits, seeds, barks, resins, 

 and other vegetable productions of the same country. 



It also possesses some manuscripts by Don Luis Nee, and 

 some hundreds of drawings of plants, which he caused to be 

 made during his voyages with Malespina. With respect to the 

 manuscripts and drawings belonging to the Flora of Mexico, 

 of Sesse and Mocino, there are only four folio volumes of MS., 

 and about 150 of the drawings which were made at the be- 

 ginning of the expedition. Of the others, which the cele- 

 brated Decandolle saw, and caused to be copied, nothing is 

 known. 



The MS. of the Flora of the Island of Cuba, written by the 

 deceased Don Baltasar Boldo, was lost during the war of inde- 

 pendence, and there remains only one volume of the. drawings 

 of plants executed by the deceased Gino, which belonged 

 to the same expedition. 



Lastly, there are 100 drawings of the first volume of the 

 Hortus Matritensis of Cavanilles, the plates of which were 

 begun in the year 1804, and the incomplete MS. which he 

 left of that work. 



The garden of Madrid had, in 1823, a professor and a vice- 

 professor of botany, another of agronomical botany, a librarian, 

 a treasurer, a chief gardener with two assistants, eleven per- 

 manent gardeners, divided into three classes, three or four 

 supernumerary youths, and a porter. Besides these, there 

 were sixteen or seventeen daily labourers. A contractor fur- 



