INDEX. 



183 



Blackened sheets, due to iwison, J>i/< c, p. 94. 

 Bltniiusbury, Banksian library retained there, Jiiurai/, 

 176; removal from, ILurrai/, p. 3. 



Board of Agriculture, technical botanic work under- 

 taken, Dyer, 1309. j). 65; Lankcstcr, 1188 ; — zwologic 

 work, Lan]<cstu; 1186-1188. 



Board of Contiiol suggesibed for Kew, Dyer, p. 99. 



Boiling, examination by. Dyer, p. 95 ; 2Iuiray, p. 4. 



Boodle, L. A., at Kew, Dyer, p. 65. 



Books purchased, British Museum, Murray, 97, p. 3 ; 

 — Kew, Dyer, p. 87, 99 ; saving on amalgamation 

 would be small, Murray, 102, 103; books and 

 journals at Cromwell Road, absent from Kew, Hiern, 

 961, 962. 



Booksellers employed, 3Iurray, p. 4. 



Borrowed, term defined, WuoihcarJ, 1082, 1083; collec- 

 tions. Dyer, 1344. 



Boswell, J. T. I., her"bai-ium foniied by, Sanhury, 497. 



Botanic assistance chiefly from outside workers, 

 TT'oodwartl, 1079 ; duplicate books should be left, 

 Wooelward, Wit ; gardens in the colonies, sugges- 

 tions for, Dyer, p. 74, 75 ; excursions, Kew, Dyer, p. 

 62 ; — ^Pai-is, p. 166 ; — Jblieir cost, p. 166 ; head- 

 quai-ters of the Empire at Kew, Dyer, p. 64 ; investi- 

 gation, fossil plants at Kew for, Scott, 1117, 1120 ; 

 library at the British Museum, Murray, 180; — lin- 

 corporated in the general library catalogue, Wood- 

 ward, 1076 ; — ^one of the finest existing, Wood- 

 ward, 1076; sequence observed at the British 

 Museum, Masters, 666 ; staff consulted by palaeon- 

 tologists rather than the herbarium, Murray, 108, 

 109 ; stations. Dyer, p. 76, 79 ; — ^in Africa, Dyer, 

 p. 82 ; survey of the Empire, Dyer, p. 64, 98 ; value 

 of fossils predoiminates over geologic value, Seward, 

 875, 876. 



Botanical Department, British Museum, p. Ill ; see 

 also evidence of Bennett, J. J., Brown, It., Carruthers, 

 W.. 2Iurray, G. It. M., ; relations to Kew, Dyer, p. 

 p. 57 ; transference of fossil plants to Geological De- 

 partment, Woodicard, 1063. 



"Botanical Magazine," Dyer, p. 98. 



Botanist, competent, in critical genera wanted. Han- 

 bury, 509 ; would be required at the British Museum 

 after transference, King, 280. 



Botanists, American, on the fire risks at Kew, Dyer, p. 

 96 ; English, prefer a London establishment, Car- 

 ruthers, 577 ; foreign, are indifiierent to locality, Car- 

 ruthers. 577; only students of fossil plants, Lan- 

 kester, 1146 ; i^ortraits at Kew, Dyer, p. 58 ; visiting 

 Kew, Dyer, p. 65 ; who have used the Geological 

 Department, Woodward, 1066 ; who cannot get to 

 Kew, Murray, 113, 114 ; would regret amalgamation 

 out of London, Groves, 347 ; work at fossil plants, 

 Woodward, 1055. 



Botanj', from a horticultural standpoint, Ehces, 1017 ; 

 in the Index Museum, Lanhestcr, 1183 ; instruction, 

 Murray, 6-21 ; lectures to garden staff. Dyer, p. 59, 

 60 ; less claim than other subjects for recognition, 

 Lanhcster, 1151 ; less studied by witness than ento- 

 mology or ornithology, Ehves, 1017 ; no other science 

 has duplicate collections, Carrutters, 586, 589; sys- 

 tematic, largely based on the pre-Linnean herbaria, 

 Murray, p. ,3 ; — Kew the only place in the world for 

 its ijroper study, Ehves, 1008. 



Bourgeau, Eugene, collections at Kew, Dyer, p. 85 ; 

 — mentioned, Semsley, 1257 ; — at Paris, p. 168. 



Boulger, Mr. George Simonds, letter deprecating re- 

 moval of botanic collections, p. 174. 



Bovell, Mr., investigation of sugar-cane disease at Kew, 

 Dyer, jy. 67. 



Bower, Professor F. O., at Kew, Dyer, p. 65 ; at the 

 Laboratory, Dyer, p. 66 ; palaeobotany, Murray, 53 ; 

 use of Geological Department, Seward, 910 ; Wood- 

 ward, 1066. 



Brabourne, Right Hon. Edward Huguessen Knatchbull- 

 Huguessen, 1st Baron, papers mentioned, p. 101. 



Braithwaite, Dr. R., at Kew, Dyer, p. 65. 



Brandis, Sir Dietrich, at Kew, Dyer, p. 65 ; his Forest 

 Flora of India, Dyer, p. 76, 98 ; labours on forestry. 

 Dyer, p. 77. 



Briquet, Dr. J., at Kew, Dyer, p. 66. 

 3499. 



British Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 ^Memorial, 1847, p. 113. 



British botanists at the British Museum, Carruthers, 

 611. 612 ; —at Kew, Dyer, p. 65, 66 ; their types chiefly 

 iu British Museum, Murray, 37 ; botany. Groves, 345 ; 

 coal-plants at Jermyn Street, ll'oodward, 1097 ; col- 

 lections at the British Museum not perfect. Groves, 

 365, 366 ; Colonial floras. Dyer, p. 64. 



British Colunnbla expedition, collections, Dyer, p. 85. 



Britisli Flora, estimates of its extent, p. 137. 



British Herbarium, Cromwell Road, of British specimens 

 only, Murray, p. 2, 4, Q. 46, 83 ; — suflicient for casual 

 botanists, Masters, 699 ; — not known to witness, 

 Elwes, 1013; —should remain, Kiurj, 226, 289-291; 

 — transfer to Keiw, Lankester, 1162 ; — with pre- 

 Linnean collections should be left in Museum, 

 Masters, 647, 654, 655. 



British India, flora, Dyer, p. 65, 76. 



British Isles, geology not entirely represented at Jermyn 

 Str"eet, Jfoodward, 1169. 



Briitish Musemii, academies, their publicajtdons in tilie 

 general li'Jbrary, Murray, p. 4 ; accessibility, rela- 

 tive, Clarke, 320, 321, 331; Elwes, 1055; Groves, 348- 

 355 ; King, 273, 274 ; ^accessions, Murray, p. 3, Q. 

 61, 62 ; accommodation insufficient for united herbaria, 

 Carruthers, 581, 583; — ^additional spa^-e readily ax- 

 ranged, Carruthers, 582, 584 ; p. 173 ; accumulation 

 the dominaint idea. Dyer, 1286 ; accumulations. Ball, 

 p. 132 ; Murray, (p. 4 ; — ^acce&siible tO' enquirers, 

 Murray, p. 4; — rapidly being reduced, Murray, p. 4; 

 acquaintiance with herbarium only pai-tial. Ball, p. 

 131 ; additions to each establishment, Murray, 

 156; administration, change on amalgamation, Hiern, 

 977-980 ; Admiralty, collections sent to, Bichards, 

 p. 147 ; — ^correspo'ndence as to collections wanting 

 at the British Museum, Dyer, p. 85, 86 ; advantages 

 of sepai-ate collections, Bennett, p. 127 ; Carruthers, 

 p. 133 ; Masters, 667, 670, 681 ; — offered as eduoa- 

 tional. Farmer, 779-781, 827 ; advice to botanists, 

 casual, Murray, 162 ; Africa, collecitions soimetdimes 

 predominate over those at Kew, Murray, 74, 75 ; 

 — West, colileeitdans from, Hiern, 950 ; Agriouliture, 

 Board of, adA-ised in mattexs of zoology, Lemkester, 

 1186-1192 ; algse, present and future arrangements, 

 3Iurra]i, p. 4 ; recourse to collections, Farmer, 775, 

 783, 808 ; amalgamation, conditioned by expense, 

 Hiern, 968, 969; Masters, 657, 689; —costly, if in- 

 volving building, Lankester, 1164, 1165 ; — counter- 

 balanced, Carruthers, 576 ; — dangers of, Murray, 113, 

 115; — desiraible, Clarke, 304^308; Ehues, 1008^1012; 

 Hemsley, 1211-1313; King, 210; — method's — ^bycahi- 

 nets, 'Clarke, 337 ; King, 212, 214. 215, 236, 



238. 239 ; Masters, 642, 643 ; not possible, Dyer, 



1342, 1343 ; — flbv contiguity, _King, 211, 214, 236, 

 239 ; —by collooation, Dyer^ 1287. 1342, 1343 ; —by 

 sheets, Clarke, 337 ; King. 236, 238 ; — saving, 

 Murray, 88. 91, 92, 96, 98-i07, 111 ; —time requisite, 

 Clctrke, 328, cf. 311 ; Elwes, 1040, 1041 ; —useful to 

 workers. Dyer, 1281, 1283, 1284 ; Carruthers, 570 ; 

 Elwes. 1014, 1052 ; amateurs, herbarium for, p. 126 ; 

 — importance of museum collections to. Masters, 673 ; 

 anthropology not represented, Lankester, 1151, 1166 ; 

 ap.pilied botany, collections .not used for, Murray, 

 6, 29 ; arrangement, authorities foillowed, Murray, 

 P- 4 ; — good. King, 276 ; — less advantageous than 

 at Kew, Masters, 636, 637, 671, 672 ; —of 

 specimens by the staff, Murray. 33, 34 ; — sug- 

 gested geographic arrangement by the Devon- 

 shire Ccm;mis.sao'n, p. 141 ; — ^^Britiiih Museum 

 and Kew, Carruthers, p. 137. _140 ; Hooker, 

 p. 129, 140: Owen, p. 140, 154; arrears in 

 laying in. Murray. 64 — 66 ; Assistant-Librarians, 

 their position, p. Ill ; assistants, distribution of 

 work, Murray. 140; attacked by_ "Edinburgh 

 Review," in 1823, p. Ill; attacks by officials on Kew, 

 Dyer, p. 57 ; attendance of visitors, 1875, Murray, 

 p. 4 ; —.1899, Murray, p. 3 ; —return 1881-9, Murray 

 p. 3 ; Australia, herbarium, King, 223 ; — rich col- 

 lections from, Murray, 160, 162; authenticity of 

 specimens should be vouched! for, Holmes. 475. v. 173 ; 

 Baker, J. G., Vascular Cryptogams arranged after 

 Murray, p. 4 ; balances, unexpended, formerly paid 

 into Treasury, Wnodirard. 1090 ; —present arrange- 

 ment. Woodward. 1092; Banks, Right Hon. Sir J., 

 codicils. Dyer, p. 100-101 ; — fossils, Murray, p. 4 ; 

 — his herbarium. Murray, p. 3; p. Ill ; — ^his library, 

 p. Ill ; Banksian Department acquired, p. 112 ; 



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