620 THE GARDENERS ee 
carrer manean s is differe botanical collections S 
nouncement this day made of the completion bcp] pe 5 Epen oe ETEA 2 ae professed present state > nee, om ise | 
tal E + ; 
is no of ye scien : 
za than a herbarium to the zoologist. The public towards it, and the ped e feeling de 
of science | thei god rg o of the study oy ae 
pe be ih ete ES for the two purposes. For the na o; For the lk eir products in medici cine, Ea 
Tae IMPERIAL HORTICULTURAL Soctery OF | they must be as ‘ere as possible. n ern oe A andi l inant, seem to E 
Pa Saoud e ma: ine: in or n 
. Tai ublic e w me 
at exhibition, open to all nations. Everyt thin Ei rena that is required. ir |p Xpense t 
must be o delivered at yt Fais de Kdosi i at | | feprennttatives of iy pial forms oi a ot ood mrad ee 1. A ot living pi m ¢ Potanical Barden fote, 
the Cha Ses gy the 25 of their principal sections tion g pla 
latest, before 9 in ‘the a the judges pro- | oF in peor species or akr, kE 0 nie ERN d 2. “how ~ nb pu blie w museum of 
coding x nation at 10 a.m. As the prominent aberat or animalon ee wowed e exhibition of plants = dal 
show will take ce place $ in the mised saler, be A e Linh cited wets instructive ooo Soo une a me aer relation ty 
place and n the open ground, all subjects ies of closely allie ] 
exhibition must be in pots, tubs, baskets, or boxes; Seite a olti repeated in numerous specimens, Ds for P pepe aa feats 3 
p 
all o ill be excluded. | Notice must be bsol za necessary for the scientific | to each other and to other 
iven E Danais the Bas pa 20th ER = to kiras pa to W Sa =A y vät the strueture, characters, | hi stor r objec 
will annihilate distance, and seem to make the two 
ountries one.” 
bit 
importa 
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. ROUILLARD, Seer de Longchamp t di han and other ‘relations of ee national herbarium 
Paris, who will furnish a copy of of the rules and Safed dean In the British Muse ata be pur- | for ae use of botanists, and in 
ations ave been aimed at in the pie me depart- maintenance of useful public collections ig 
i Aet irn 
t is further seep that the Poniclépieal at 
Society of Lyons will hold its sittings for 1858 in which most importance has been attache » whilst tru ly ra abies 
er arb f the here be rew tha 
; yi 0 hina situation a nd r o sa a subject, 
and the various names under which they are known. = om th that it is a ee tthey| The m of Pratical Botany is also pee 
The exhibition will be open in Paris from Sept. sh a have stipulated for the insertion in the adiufttad t to ts better placed in Kew 
26 to Oct. 3, both inclusive. e-mentioned memorial of the e xceptional pro- | it would be in any other peter ps 
n TEs a elating t f the “botanical | has been or is likely to be r. as 
THE NATURAL, HISTORY ai IN clletions * to Kew, meaning thereby the herba-| The botanical departztend 
TH RITISH MUSE which to the general public is so much Natural History for exhibitio 
[The fate of ‘he on ATURAL Boar Ó Corzeorrons ûried is ay: not, as already 
IN THE Brit Museum is now attracting s ongly protest against the idea that | to our views it sho d consis 
much attention, that we willingly admit the tol- t herbari fw is or ought to be all that consti- | cases each devoted either to 
lowing remarks upon the subject by a most able tutes the ene nical ear ” in a natural his- | a tribe, or to tw 
and experienced correspondent, reserving to our- tory mu Plan be illustrated and | according to thei i 
selves the right pis nag reg hereafter to a point or | exhibited rials as ad as e ential: though by a | each case would b à 
two in whic different process, and no such museum can be| convenient for inspection by 
AN able article on the BRITISH Museum i in the ee Das pee them. The great and de-| some typical species or form of eve 
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enormous masses ‘at | eterogeneous matters now | well-contrived plans and unwearied exertions of | or species. The species would be 
collected wi in the walls of Montague House. | sir Wirrram Hooker, has already awakened the} 1. The fruit and seed in their natural d 
that the time is rapidly ap- | minds of managers of natural history museums, to | state when they sufficiently retain their ch 
hing, nay, is already come, when the retain- f the advantages which would result from a ing as in the case of Pine cones; oi 
fg of these maltitudi Inous us collections 1 age tek cme af po botany in their on s. | and accompanied by wax mode 
T for 
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wledge in a r for the last two or | models, when too small to be atelligib 
sent. Either a separation must be effe |, or the ears, But as it had never been ae actually | by bret all to be ected ó 
door must be shut against any further additions to | opene men the public, it was eith i 
most of the departments. obvious | not ‘taken into account by those memorialists swho| 2. tem and root repre nd 
division is that indicated ris A te of tr rees pen blocks and rte and vertical 
the works of m this} Agreei ing, therefore, with th bathe. view” of the t runk and r amifications, the ont r 
articular instance, haye so Tittle Site be with ea the natur > go colieetions t be ollste 
each other. The removal of the Natural History | moved from Montague Hous plo library, ao | nor worked into mi: or ornamen any sje = 
and not pos hse bg, and ai o be pas: | belong to the practical, not the ae nen 
that extens hich the pub lio g ; | Tuberous, bulbous, and other 
ain and phe 
e nex 
be col 
moved to? The “Quarterly” replies, to Kensington | or accompanied by coloured dra 
ington House. If the pub w 
i soii st | appe 
ti o ve} baea situation for popr > for botanists. | ing, for those visitors who ar 
ey oa ig aa Ho i is in a os hare ral situation. | a pe fame 
d other Societies t eon 2 soi in uctive species 0 
morialists contemplate ssible gry of ai in Eh 
the botanical collection: s to Kew.° This in establis rite Ree s ihe ca ease: 
sistency appears ag tayè — from the want “of 
nee is s piee al i cee i 
country is on oti beginning to be acknowledged, Maes would be in manner a < 
ing o aigre for which] and it j e hoped t is s o 
Fame histo: tory museums are m ned—first, the | coura. e ye n P- | co 
lan = pac rong > exe for fto pan E se ig however, these societies to be again sent | General Exhibition at Paris 
affording to the man of science the means of in- 
vestigation and study in his own particular 
rtment, 
depa there ten no eae space gh for a | specimens’ of each considera 
complete national working collection of animals, | enus or section; 0 y 
the vo Blog King bie these 2 one close union of plants, and minerals, dibin ed with galleries for es other lower orders, resting “n 
sable. The series Rs organic bein wa is indispen n- public exhibition, _ Ane enor Tous expense would be pret aa of the tal in or se glaran f 
without plants. The rese ery fieis and differences detablishan i fon hole e exhi bite A oom is ai 
f don and a rat the gardet 
omg e ae is as important thee nr ts yan perpetually clashing with oe other; ; “the that Sane mi ight Ebe or sire a 
national -zoological museum wou e an expen- | Burlington House, capa 
ay vse har rent apt ei ioa betw caa ne ani F og sive rival to the am Te one of the ochi- seterio natural history muse 
_togams. So an ex xhibition of fossils sid cal Society, the ——— one to that of the hensive and instructive 
à S eological Socie ay the ver-increasing including perhaps in up 
animals med plants m p t an y London dirt and sm which wit ith ed bee ossil soll ction pwn t 
Einir eralogical sation For the wor iis and attention can w very tolerably kept away | mi ight be added to in height 
of : oriso was inserted in + Wann Ing | from articles exhibited in closed glass cases, would | yard, so as mmoda or three 
x he purpose of obtaining sign es ware: tadually invade and ulti ately destroy working | now in po on the two 
, of those who i finally ex. | Collections which are nec arily large and more | remain in Some: Sea a 
Sal ye ea mt the 5 cow exposed, and are also too extensive to] The mai ntenance o P blio m 
sun stata, ts the exclusion of others whines xe | Be ean with the same e, he 
or 
Otherwise have been ob 2 considering the proper locale for our national | the unscrupulous rejection 
