Novemser 27, 1858.] 
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pUBLIC NATURAL nEn Bagis 
Tar following ust passed with 
one of a body of aes Naturali sts deeply in: 
ra EaR Hatma History Collections now in an 
ested to transmit for your conside- 
e 
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you explanation of 
we shall be happy jen oy hl As upon 
time you fad be pia to appoi 
“T have the honour, &., 
(Signed) 
1. 
j 
Jons Linpiey.” 
Honourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 
of the removal of the Natural History 
e British Museum having been recently 
ol 
diffusion Skiter ‘he Publionto show how “tar the 
Museums of the niea w tev and its = a, in 
condition, answer wee te pen The y pons 
gabe 
8 
m 
r Museum, 
and Plants, 
Hi 
fication, and to servi 
to the Student s Natural History. 
eater Muséum, in which Collections of all 
Plants, and their parts, whether recent 
and of a su settilont number of specimens, should be 
Giieniently for study ; and to which should be ex- 
attached an approp ney Woche Collection of 
isuaier tikek: Hepi independ 
nn 
, Or 
wholly ent 
ae geet vith titastratl 
or wi ons 
Hoslgial sin 4 eee obtained and a. 
assist the progress of Com 
4, Collections of Li Animals and Plants, or ical 
itd Bolanicat a. aia 
‘The Typical 
meu Pi, anhexod to ligh 
go oe » ina 
e Collections should be = 
pro- 
by who 
would visit them ; and “iren ient room should Svabened within 
cases to admit of affix ing to the specimens, without con- 
hase their names, and suc pasira aonn as are necessary to 
a. - ga and instructive to the Student and 
in Botany might 
ey “4 the sgh on 
Sid Fenn i ny, 
nsable eg the study of Natural 
ee satel for public exhibition. Without 
bee hy tea 
my 
p aatis 
different would $ renee eter ar a 
ngemen ër e s ens 
Eem mae A be frequently taken 
Paton Musee en pen 
be useless unless an appropriate Library were included 
he Zoological and Botanical Scientific Museums 
oes imp age rs gg 2 ie each 
ing Collection is desirab! t not 
Recessary—alth ough, to of Botany, an extensive 
co and "ante? Pad re en appendages to 
inte e building. 
À beara of th 
moid locality i is of 
with its omysepondip 
The existing Natural History Coll Collections accessible to Men of 
and to the Public, in or near the Metropolis, are the 
prdor. 
seknowledged 
pe 
ne 
nah 
Š and. ‘the P i of space in the 
of the British aami yoan prevent its 
were there an adeq tàge in 
sega of the State, t f mgt 
together as those 
Tun eit epr also contains i Msg mare Collection 
sical C le more readily available for Science than 
ca or Popular B 
> 
T | State, as is mye the bees 
ati fic | 01 
of London and 
specimens on other days preventing their bei beiug 
meremeelly closed cases. 
Museum of Economic 
South 
unrivalled Zoo logical Garden or Living Collec- | 
arranged m 
of the State, nor receiving any other than ini 
in the terms on which its site is granted. 
miaa which your Memorialists would respectful Ny | so 
consideration of her Majesty s pers, wit 
t 
s reall 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
mta Ke ‘agers poe 
tion, well situated i in the Regent’s Park, but not > rnin med w 
vailable br the 
owi ao 
taken sa h of “the holes was 
spread over bie border, wx 
soil from the bottom w k 
u 
nsib! 
hy heso preparations essa fail to 
of Pea well? Of ‘co’ s the roots Egr 
iderable quantity of the thes soil alluded to above | ? 
er to con- 
sap, a n Ae Me Toa proposed is only a further d 
Ppa which tho E poe 
Collections e Bri 
geen oon! Library to the 
ndent of t the pira 
of the Library of the A useum, eg vie weak t 
your Memorialists, is inseparable from 
Scientific Zoological Mw aa ei? Tb nein Be p 
y responsible to one of her Majesty's 
= 
s opinion ‘of 
1 A ee 
further devel: 
Your Memorialists recommend that the whole of the Kew 
Herbarium become the property of, and be maintained by, the 
with a portion of it—that the 
Banksian Herbarium and the Fossil ts be trans! 
it from ~~! ye hris Perro thata 
modation at 
erore 
ioe Mia at EAA 
n a Geograph hical Botanical 
for rek yr ermen n PE the Colo: al Vegotation of the British 
Em which, consid the extrem: ar ta 
p wed tothe commerce of this coun’ tere oe your M ones 
convinced would be felt to be a great a roan. 
Your wooo recommend further, that in place 
iscellaneous bt Guile 
of the Scientific 
© | successi 
is viz. aoa two 
ion similar to S which is | y 
ferred to 
ermanent building be | the Patent 
—s 
of the wh 
ding in the 
manure with the loam in so confined a space? or 
n- | ha ave mixed in rubble fi ? Will the plan jat 
it Peach trees? And lastly, what sorts 
riy likely to yield a moderate 
fi i Bes o mber 
supply in 
pa 
pa pee ractical 
have ot! veel pe nds of wal 
of doing so with every possible chance o 
eb ae r abou a må hand for m4 reasonable 
—In er to “Novice” (wee p. 734), 
p that t amr of getting rid of 
them w it wice in a season ; 
is not ding  ufficient 
utting opens the pores, lets 
‘chews Generally omens t iapa 
reom, Inventor of 
best 
water, and ki 
year’s atog) is Salio. 
Improved B 
Mouse.—We hear now and th of things 
or pal so unlike what ang p any time 
s grup. w our ig mee and pagent 
tion, that, on those and then e is ‘much m 
faithless fhan ie “ill ge following i is quite ra 
how nlike! now in the possession of 
“Brock pre puss Hoxton, a mouse 
Peg 0 g ai 
. 
within t 
rst, 36, Clinger 
~ ie fed po to 
n their 
aj 
awe Zool 
Teachers and hao nergy of ofthe Metropolitad Co ally 
That the Botanical Scientific Museum an d its ea the 
Museum of 
as at present, under one head, dire 
her Majesty’s Ministers. 
The undersigned Memorialists, consisting wholly of Zoologists 
and Botanists,have offered no suggestions respecting the very 
valuable., Mine! eralogi 
although aware that, in case it s a be iehi ren 
e g p ry Collections ai hould be re 
another locality” the ae of the Minerals also will 
come under consideratio: 
November 18, 1858. 
= BENTHAM, V.P. 
Gsonce BUSK, F.R.S. iy 28. Professor of Compara- | 
ve Anatomy and Physiology to the Royal College of | 
of d. 
LAN B. Can M.D., F.RS., and Z.S., Regis- | 
of the Uni of London 3 4 
1s, FR $, S., and G. S 
WILLIAM 
„, Professor o tts | 
ical Collection Bes the British Mu n, neji 
ee 
cg ith 
0, 1858, p. 848) which pekena 
Joun LixpLEY, F.R.S. 
University College, ton don. 
a a misprint "of Ledbury for Sedbury in tl 
of it give 1850. Ormerod, Sedbu 
ay (dad paee n 
e Oak ca e Mise D n pa 
Calle the at of the tly of Som 
I believe bigs Me ow instances “of „that 
Wall T 
Home Correspondence. 
_ Planting Wall Trees.—We } 
nd 27 in width, with a wall facing 
uth-wes$, on one ch are growing Pear trees, w which ` 
doubt a are very old; ew yoa ond i been cu 
ee mal few their lim nad 
old; they are berets h 
inferi: ee 
a you 
sires loaf i is better pispe no bread). 
p 
“tt Row, an a Gardens and Museum of 
te Science oy vit Sm rene and the conse- 
oN eager are too gene- 
m the part of yo 
f 
i 
[ 
og —The British Museum 
‘there 
of 
i 
ij 
i 
for 
fla 
i 
necessity of acc 
3 
E 
ay between the we ya 
hes 
meg 9 ‘and mie err and 
bi ant; n 
= s-er a pe ie ae rf front of ps: border a beis 
a ca yar as | 
way. 
bably | wh 
2 
Chroni iele o f Now 
w on resinous trees, though I 
it should be impossible to make it grow upo 
ev ree upon which it grows naturally, unless 
0 trary. That it 
ved the contrary. T does grow 
ally I have ascertained 
inguis 
Pyrenees > the south of Pau, iui the 
Chandes or the western above Cauterets, in in 1852 
I sa Mise Silver Fir in ge abun- 
and kill the — 
ts on a a 
Pe 
s ut so pro- 
believe Pinus sivas in the 
and in 
these I intend p 
| Sa holes I have P fled leith p rimet vet fy 
rsdn nre, viz, the top spit an wt a atia from 
ure land. 
old Misslto 
fT should have stated that the mould } Pine trike, and I 
accuracy as in Keneit 
rows naturally upon several species 
see no reason we it should oy flo 
