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Ill. BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
an economic, and a scientific department, the two former open always to 
the Public, the latter to men of science. The zoological and perhaps the 
mineralogical collections it is roposed i rt 
on or the immediate vicinity, probably at Kensington Gore; the 
botanical collection would of course go to Kew, where the national bo- 
, e museum of economic botany, 
pe Successfully established by him, already exist. i i 
m. Hooker, perhaps the largest in the world,—certainly far larger than 
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“onsulted under proper regulations, But it must be said that, with the 
Greatest botanist of be a as their curator, these national collections for a 
ache of a century have not contributed to the advancement of bota 
“ny thing like the extent which the Hookerian herbarium, and its de- 
 Seherous-spirited, and disinterested founder have done. How such 
erbariu h I i in 
lon) to conceive, Certainly it is too large and too important for science 
Ba to remain in private hands. It must in any ease be acquired by the 
Pt Go : when this and the Benthamian herbarium, with 
other special collections now at the British museum se should be kept 
will form an unrivalled scientific botanical museum. A. G. 
te On the Coiling of Tendrils ; by Prof. Gray.—As much as twen 
"8 g0, Mohl suggested that the coiling of tendrils ‘ resulted from an 
put j ° Particular approval to boast of, yet that nothing better has been 
ise fe i place. And in ano aragra : 
ilo the Vegetable Cell (contributed to lagner’s Cyclopedia of Phys- 
ae he briefly says: ‘In my opinion, a dull irri ity exists in the 
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