56 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
duliiaie first, of a ee sponaner second, a museum of such 
parts of plants a nnot be prs rved in the herbarium; ; third, a 
ae le tibrasy: : pei fourth, waite offices. At present the 
herbarium is kept in the office. The plants are merely tied up in 
undles, are very difficult of — ee to injury from damp, 
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without delay. Part of the collection Mirae should properly be at 
the garden is at present stored in the Museum of Science and Art, 
and I think that steps should be taken to render the late Admiral 
Jones’s collection of lichens accessible to the student.” Dr. McNab 
calls attention to the deficiencies of the library, instancing as 
examples of books required the recent volumes of the ‘ Botanical 
agazine,’ which is complete down to 1878, the ‘Flora pe. 
traliensis,’ the ‘ Flora of British India,’ and the « Journal of th 
Linnean Society,’ Such a state of affairs is hardly matifle to 
the chief botanical salahualeaont in Ireland. his 
statement with pe sentence :——‘‘ Botanical science is but little 
appreciated in Ireland, and it is only by having a properly equipped 
botanical establishment that any impetus will be given to the 
study of the subject. 
oore bears out this melancholy iced to the ame | 
state of things :—‘‘ The plants,” he says, ‘‘are tied in bundles, 
put where room can be found for them. The place is so ds sy 
that many valuable plants were completely ere during the year, 
d they must continue to deteriorate unless suitable cases be 
os. ~ them 
n from Mr. Moore that the Herbarium contains, among 
other collections, a large series of Irish Phanerogams and Ferns, 
formed by the late Dr. Moore, and of especial value in connection 
with the ‘Cybele Hibernica’; a full collection of Irish Musci and 
Hepaticw, mounted and arranged—the latter prepared for micro- 
scopical examination; collections of Irish Lichens and Mosses, 
formed by Dr. taylor and Admiral Jones ; Kuropean Hepatice and 
Mosses, from Lindley, a? — and G. EK. Hunt; 
and other plants from various parts of Eur We trust that 
something may be done, and that “without Galay, to save the 
siesionn from the ruin which seems impending. 
Nottees of Books. 
Origine des Plantes Cultivées. Par Aupn. DeCanpotue. Paris 
Bailliére, 1883 [1882]. 
Tris most useful and interesting volume demands = —— 
complete notice than the present demands upon our s 
permit us to bestow upon it. We are glad to know Bok 4 an 
English edition is in active preparation, and we shall delay until 
