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Botany and Zoology. 
_ The collections were formally presented by the following letter :— 
‘ “ Botanic Garden, Cambridge, November 30, 1864. 
“To the Rev. Dr. Hirt, President of Harvard University, 
“My Dear Sir :—I have the pleasure to inform you that the Herbarium 
vard University Herbarium. 
: “The Herbarium is estimated to contain at least 200,000 specimens, 
i and is constantly increasing. From the very large number of typical 
Specimens it comprises, its safe preservation is very important. 
“The Library, from the rough catalogue which has been made out, 
contains about 2200 botanical works—perhaps 1600 volumes, and nearly 
4a many separate memoirs, tracts, &c. 
_ “The current expenses of the establishment for the first half of the 
tar now drawing to a close have been defrayed by Dr. Jacob Bigelow, 
td placed in my hands a special donation of two hundred dollars for 
8 pu 
_ “Thad stated that the income of a capital sum of $10,000 would be 
tequired to defray the current expenses of the Herbarium, i.e. for the 
_ Prepared, and to which I am ledged. 
_ “Thave the honor to be, with great respect, very truly yours, 
Asa Gray.” 
Se We understand that extensive collections of botanical p oolaat to be 
0 ng them 
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Very interesting set of plants recently collected, chiefly by Professor 
» In the Geological Survey of California under Professor Whitney. 
evs al Kew, 
A large collection of pl 1s Mad ar, ‘and a con- 
: ants of Mauritius and Madagascar, a “01 
_tinuation of the distribution of the British East Indian herbaria of Grif- 
Ifer, &e., presented by the directors of the Royal Botanical Gar- 
Song rba : , 
A similar slSbuiion ‘Gn continuation) of plants of the Dutch East 
Sand Japan, from the Royal Netherlands Herbarium, Leyden, now 
the charge of Professor Miquel. | 
