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pany has thus acquired the most honourable right to the gratitude of the 

 learned of all countries ; and we are certain that all the friends of science 

 will applaud this great act of liberality, and will join us in expressing their 

 gratitude. The very manner in which this great operation is performed adds 

 to its utility, and deserves being made known. 



All the species of the different collections are arranged under their families 

 and genera by Dr. Wallich,and the principal English botanists, Messrs. Brown, 

 Lindley, Bentham, &c. Each has a number attached to it, and receives a 

 provisory name. Lithographic copies are printed of the lists of these names, 

 accompanied with the designation of the different localities in which the plant 

 has been gathered. All the specimens furnished with one number refer to 

 these lists, and in this manner those who may see them in the different col- 

 lections in Europe will be certain of their identity with those which are de- 

 scribed. By this very simple process, all the uncertainties to which the sight 

 of isolated specimens frequently give rise will be removed. 



Each family-of plants is sent to the botanist who has given proof of his 

 peculiar fitness for its examination, by the monographs which he has published, 

 commenced, or projected, on it. Thus, to confine ourselves to a few examples 

 which have come to our knowledge, Mr. Brown has got the .Rubiaceae, &c. ; 

 Mr. G. Bentham the Caryophylleae, Labiatae, &c. ; Mr. Lindley the Rosacea?, 

 &c. ; M. DeCandolle the Umbelliferae, Capri foliaceae, Lorantheae, &c. ; M. 

 Adolphe DeCandolle the Campanulaceae ; M. Choisy the C'onvolvuli, &c. 

 Each of these monographists receives the first disposable duplicates in the part 

 confided to him, and is to make them known to the public. The other spe- 

 cimens are distributed in such a manner as to be divided into collections 

 destined for different countries, and thus contribute, in the most efficient 

 manner, to extend a knowledge of the botany of India. 



If the gratitude of naturalists is first due to the Honourable East India 

 Company, it is also due to Dr. Wallich, who superintends this distribution. 

 So far from taking advantage of his situation for reserving to himself the 

 publication of these riches, he only occupies himself in distributing them 

 among his colleagues in the manner most useful for the advancement of na- 

 tural history. He employs, for the purposes of facilitating the labour of 

 botanists in general, the valuable time which he might employ in his own 

 private labours, and by this proves that he sees glory where it really is, in 

 usefulness. How widely different is this liberal manner of serving the in- 

 terests of science, from the narrow and despicable jealousies of which the 

 history of literature and science presents but too many examples ! If we 

 have thought it our duty to mention this event as an honourable fact in the 

 history of botany, we also love to make it known as a fact honourable to the 

 human heart, as a proof of the progress of civilisation, and of the intimate 

 connexion which is every day becoming more firmly established among en- 

 lightened nations. (Jameson's Journal, July, 1830.) 



Art. III. Domestic Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



A National Arboretum. — We learn with pleasure that a national arboretum 

 in the New Forest is about to be planted by Mr. Page of Southampton. It will 

 be formed upon the national property, under the management of the Woods 

 and Forests, two miles from Lyndhurst, where various soils, with high and low 

 situations, can be selected. We are kindly promised farther information on 

 this arboretum by Mr. Page. — Cond. 



A Subscription Botanic Garden is said to be in contemplation in the neighbour- 

 hood of Reading, by appropriating about thirty acres of the grounds of White 

 Knights, known as the Wilderness, for this purpose. (Gard. Gaz., Oct. 12. 

 1839.) We sincerely hope this design may succeed, and that the numerous 



