270 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
be mentioned.” The entry runs :— 
: - Rare and valuable Botanical Collection. The 
extensive Herbal of that scientific Botanist, Lightfoot, author of 
the Flora Scotica, comprising not only his collection for that 
of beautiful wood, and the interior of each is fitted up with 
square trays or slides, exceedingly well contrived for preserving 
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whose name appears as purchaser (for fifty guineas) in Christie’s 
catalogue. It seems to have remained in Brown’s possession as 
a separate collection as lately as 1855, in which year it is referred 
to by Sir William Hooker (Hook. Journ. Bot. vii. 341) as “the 
herbarium of Mr. Lightfoot, formerly in the possession of Queen 
Charlotte, now in that of Mr. Brown, who has shown me, in that 
” 
herbarium, 
Edinburgh (see Journ. Bot. 1876, 192); the rest of his herbarium 
was similarly incorporated, and in this were many specimens 
from Lightfoot, including the examples of Athyriwm fontanum 
from Amersham, to which Hooker referred in the passage above 
suggest that his herbarium as a whole had been incorporated : 
neither was there any set of mahogany cabinets such as that 
indicated in Christie’s catalogue. 
Mr. Boulger’s statement (Journ. Bot. 1883, 164) that Light- 
foot’s herbarium was included in that of G. 8. Gibson at Saffron 
many of his plants are however to be found there, where they have 
been seen by the Rev. H.J. Riddelsdell. The inaccurate assertion — 
in the Biographical Index that the herbarium was at. Kew gained 
