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that work being our authority as to circumscription of genera, 
and on all questions thereon, subject naturally to fresh information 
on points which were doubtful when the text of the ‘ Genera’ was 
drawn up is of course does not exclude our making full use of 
material which was not-accessible in that work. 
- is accommodated in 178 boxes as described, housed in two 
sets of pigeon-holes; the entire MS. is computed to weigh rather 
more than a ton : 
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of two to four assistants. From this point various works were use 
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_ for the insertion of references, beginning with DeCandolle’s ‘ Pro- 
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reliminaries consumed eighteen months, with the help 
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ensis,’ Martius’s ‘Flora Brasiliensis,’ Ledebour’s ‘Flora Rossica 
Boissier’s ‘ Flora Orientalis,’ &c. After these great storehouses were 
exhausted, the smaller works and journals were entered on the sheets. 
"he intention was to produce a modernised ‘ Steudel’s 
Nomenclator’—indeed that was Mr. Darwin’s wish; but from 
the first I maintained that references ought to be given; that 
diminishes every year,—a faithful index of the names of phanero- 
gams published during the century and a half from 1735 to 1885 
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give a view of the actual state of Botany at the end of 1885, 
leaving it to monographers to fully settle questions of synonymy of 
doubtful species. : 
In minor points, again, Steudel’s plan has been abandoned, so 
