158 



Appendix I. 



Wilson, two practical gardeners, in the month of 

 February, 1838. 



House of Commons, 1840. n. 292. 



5. A Copy " of a Memorial to the First Lord of the 

 Tl-easury, presented on the 10th day of March, by mem- 

 bers of the British Association for the Advancement of 



■ Science, and of other Scientific Societies, respecting the 

 management of the British Museum, with the names 

 affixed: 



House of Commons, 1847. n. 268. 



6. Copy of a Commission for Inquiring into the Consti- 

 tution and Government of the British Museum. 



House of Commons, 1847. n. 674. 



7. Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire 

 into the constitution and government of the British 

 Museum, with Minutes of Evidence. Presented to both 

 Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. 



Command, 1850. n. 1,170. 



8. The same : Index to Report and Minutes of 

 Evidence. 



9. Copies of all Communications addressed to the 

 Treasury by the Trustees of the British Museum with re- 

 ference to the report of the Commissioners appointed to 

 inquire into the Constitution and Management of the 

 British Museum. 



House! of Commons, 1850. n. 425. 



10. Copies " of all Communications made by the Officers 

 and Architect of the British Museum to the Trustees, re- 

 specting the want of space for exhibiting the collections in 

 that Institution as well as respecting the Enlargement of 

 its Buildings. 



" And, of all Minutes of the Trustees, and of all Com- 

 munications between the Trustees and the Treasury upon 

 the same subject (the whole subsequent to, and in con- 

 tinuation of, Parliamentary Paper, No. 42, of Session 

 1852-3)." 



House of Commons, 1858. n. 379. 



11. A " Copy of a Memorial addressed to Her Majesty's 

 Government by the Promoters and Cultivators of Science 

 on the Subject of the proposed Severance from the British 

 Museum of its Natural History Collections, together with 

 the Signatures attached thereto." 



House of Commons, 1858. n. 456. 



12. The "Quarterly Review," July, 1858, Art. VII. 

 [On the British Museum, Official Papers, 1835-58.] 



A short history of the entire collections from Sir 

 Hans Sloane onwards ; on page 218 the writer de- 

 mands that the natural history collections should be 

 separated from the rest, and housed in a building to 

 be erected, preferably at Burlington House, or else 

 at Kensington Gore. 



13. " The Natural History Collections in chc British 

 Museum." The " Gardeners' Chronicle," 14th Augusit, 

 1858, pp. 620-621. 



By George Bentham, signed with his initials ; 

 refers to the " Quarterly Review " (see No. 12) ; not- 

 withstanding the Memonial (No. 11), . . . "an 

 impartial perusal of the above article leads to the 

 con-s'iction that such a step [as the removal of those 

 collections] is now indispensable," and urges the 

 transference of the botanical collections to Kew, 

 "except the Sloane Herbarium." 



14. A leading article on the same subject, ib. 28th 

 August. 1858, pp. 651, 652 [by the Editor, Dr. John 

 Lindley]. 



15. "Public Natural History Collections," ib. 27th 

 November, 1858, p. 861. 



Correspondence of Dr. Lindley with the Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer, presenting a memorial recommend- 

 ing the transference of most of the specimens to 

 Kew. This antedates the official record of this cor- 

 respondence, which is given in No. 19, below. 



16. Leading article on the above memorial, ib. 15th 

 January, 1859, pp. 35, 36. 



An abstract of the foregoing, presumably by Dr. 

 Lindley ; the official paper was issued in March fol- 

 lowing. 



17. Leading article, ib. 16th April, 1859, pp. 335, 336, 

 referring to the same. 



18. Leading article, ib. 24th December, 1859, pp. 

 1035-36. 



19. A Copy " of all Communications made by the Officers 

 and Architect of the British Museum to the Trustees, re- 



specting the want of space for exhibiting the Collections 

 in that Institution, as well as respecting the Enlargement 

 of its Buildings." 



" And, of all Minutes of the Trustees, and of all Com- 

 munications between the Trustees and the Treasury upon 

 the same subject (the whole subsequent to, and in con- 

 tinuation of, Parliamentary Paper, No. 379 of Session 

 1857-8)." 



House of Commons, 1859. n. 126. 



20. Report from the Select Committee on the British 

 Museum ; together with the Proceedings of the Com- 

 mittee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix. 



House of Commons, 1860. n. 540. 



21. Index to the Report, etc. 



House of Commons, 1860. n. 540 — I. 



22. "Botanical Museums." Article in "Nature," iii., 

 23rd March, 1871 ; pp. 401-402. 



Unsigned article by Mr. George Bentham. 



23. Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and 

 the Advancement of Science. Vol. I. 



— First, Supplementary and Second Reports, with 

 Minutes of Evidence and Appendices. Presented to both 

 Houses of Parliament, by Command of Her Majesty, 

 1872. C. 536. 



—Fourth Report, 1874. C. 884. 



—Eighth Report, 1875. C. 1298. 



—Volume II., 1874. C. 958. 



— Volume III. and the General Index to the Evidence to 

 the Analyses of the Evidence, and to the Appendices to 

 the Evidence given in Vols. I-III. 1875. C. 1363. 



24. Botanical Museums. "Nature," vi., 3rd October, 

 1872, p. 449-452. _ Signed by William Carruthers ; a 

 reply to the foregoing. 



25. The National Herbarium. "Nature," vii., 12th 

 December, 1872, p. 103. 



Referring to the statement that the Banksian Her- 

 barium was used for naming plants at Kew in the time 

 of the Aitons, etc., by William Carruthers, with an ap- 

 pended note by Dr. J. D. Hooker, on the above ques- 

 tion, duplicates, etc. 



26. Our National Herbarium. "The Garden," 29th 

 March, 1873, p. 248. 



Letter from W. Carruthers, enclosing letter which 

 was declined publication by the editor of " Nature." The 

 writer deprecates the Museum being supplied with dupli- 

 cates from Kew, with possible errors on naming, and 

 without powers of verifying the same. 



27. Copies " of Papers relating to changes introduced 

 into the administration of the Office of Works affecting 

 the Direction and Management of the Gardens at Kew," 

 &c. 



House of Commons, 1872. No. 335. 



28. Copy " of Dr. Hooker's Reply to Professor Owen's 

 Statement, Appendix, No. 3, in the Kew Gardens Re- 

 turn." 



House of Commons, 1872. n. 427. 



29. Remarks on Dr. Hooker's reply to the statement 

 relative to the Botanical Departments respectively under 

 the Trustees of the British Museum and the Commis- 

 sioner of Works (Appendix No. III., etc., of papers re- 

 lating to Kew Gardens), by Richard Owen, dated British 

 Museum, 6th September, 1872. 



London : Eyre & Spottiswoode. [1872], fol. 8 pp. 



30. An account of the events which preceded Dr. Lind- 

 ley s Report, 1840 ; by John Smith. 



The "Gardeners' Chronicle," v. (1876) p 364. 



31. Communication relating the ofi'er of the Gardens 



and their contents to the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 with an account of the consequent negotiations ; by 

 George Bentham, at that time honorary secretary of the 

 Society. 



The "Gardeners' Chronicle," v. (1876) p. 400. 



32. Historical Record of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew. " Records," by John Smith, London, 1880, p. 

 v.-xiii. 



Subsidiary accounts are also given of the particular 

 collections under their respective sections. 



33. Historical Account of (the Royal Gardens) Kew, 

 to 1841. [By Sir William Thiselton-Drer, K.C.M.G.] 

 In the Kew "Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information," 

 December, 1891, pp. 279-327. 



