THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM 121 
for the plants described in one of Linnewus’s earliest and m 
clcbrate works ; Clayton’s herbarium, from which Gronorias's 
Virginica was entirely formed; a considerable number of 
pleats collected in the Levant b Tournefort and described in the 
the Flora aac ee of Linnzus is a systematic enumeration and 
charge of i ie Sania were transferred to the Banksian 
Department. These, according to the following account submitted 
by Brown, comprise 
‘¢1. Sir Hans Sloane’ s herbarium, formed by | himself and other 
botanists, whose collections are kept 
333 volumes, all of them i _ a tolerably good state of preservation ; 
they are all numbered on the backs, and may be referred to withou 
difficulty. 2. Baron de Moll’ Tere purchas ad by the aoe. 
the sa i nnmber, 20 00, in 1761. It appears, — that the 
75 large fasciculi, which are no nt in perfect preservation 
Besides these herbaria, pale is also a collection of fruits and seeds 
in spirits of wine, an er of dried i of fruits and 
Of Sir Hans Sloane’s pate ele collection, so = aa account follows 
The Chelsea Garden plants are now incorporated with the general 
herbarium. The Baron de Moll’s meoneey ast ene to the report 
of Kénig and Baber, who went to ex e his minerals before their 
a by the Trustees, contained s acaaee asate tn Felis and other 
minent botanists, as well as cle collected by himself in the Alps ; 
this was probably incorporated with the general alate but no 
specimens can now be identified as coming there 
THe Stoant Herparium. 
Be suconiye herbarium, containing as it pre the results of 
earliest botan as investigations of China, In 
the B Now World is of the greatest historical value. The plants are 
Journan or Borany.—Vor, 48. [Apri, 1905.] K 
