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DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON BOTANICAL WORK 



Colonial Office List, 1313-1320; —recognition of Kew 

 in, Dyer, p. 56 ; — statement, Vyer, p. 83. 



Colonies, botanic needs of, Dyer, p. 57 ; — Kew work 

 dependent on the heiibarium, Dyer, 1308 ; — plants 

 from, at Berlin, p. 169 ; —Paris, p. 168 ; —represen- 

 tative herbaria should be at the British Museum, 

 King, 223, 290 ; —students, p. 169. 



Commission, Royal, 1847-50, p. 113-117; —1871-75 

 (Devonshire Commission), p. 127-149. 



Commissioner of Agriculture for the West Indies ap- 

 pointed, Dyer, p. 76. 



Committee, Departmental, 1883, nothing done, Dyer, 

 p. 57 ; —[1900-1901] deprecated by the Trustees of 

 the British Museum, p. 179 ; — of enquiry into the 

 condition of Kew Gardens, 1838, p. 112 ; — ^Select, 

 Report, 1835, p. Ill ; —1860, p. 124, 



Commons, see House of Commons. 



Comparison, at two establishanents, difficult, Clarke, 

 302 ; — proximity important, Murray, 84. 



Competent botanist, need for, aftea: union, King, 280. 



Competition between the British Museum and Kew, not 

 severe, Murray, 128 ; — ^hypothetical. Dyer, 1346- 

 1353 ; ■ — injury resulting from, Elwes, 1031, 1032 ; 

 —insignificant. Dyer, 1295, 1296 ; HemsJcy, 1254- 

 1256 ; — not disadvantageous, Faivcett, 848-855 ; 

 —undesirable. Masters, 727, 728. 



Complaints as regards two herbaria, Clarke, 331. 



Complete collection should be aimed at. Masters, 723, 



724, 734, 735. 

 Compositse, many types in the order. Holmes, 421. 

 Concentration ideally desirable, Dyer, 1283, 1284, liZ-.. 



1307. 

 Cone, R. Brown's famous specimen, Murray, 53. 



Congo, herbarium, at Brussels, p. 164 ; — plants from. 

 Holmes, 457. 



Coniferse, at Kew, Handlist, Dyer, p. 58 ; -in Museum, 

 Dyer, p. 94 ; — rich collection. Masters, 683. 



Constitution of Kew, Dyer, p. 78. 



Continental herbaria must be visited by botanists, Faw- 



cett, 544. 

 Convenience for fossil botany at the British ]>Iuseum, 



Seward, 924, 927. 

 Cook, Lieut. James, plants collected on his voyages, at 



the British Museum, p. 116, 126 ; Hemslcy, 1209 ; 



— wanting at Kew, Dyer, 1274. 

 Cooke, Dr. M. C, types of Erysiphaceae at Kew, Dyer, 



p. 98. 

 Cooke, Dr. T., at Kew, Dyer, p. 65; —on Bombay 



flora, Dyer, p. 98. 

 Cooper's Hill, small collection of timber, Dyer, p. 82 ; 



— students from, Dyer, p. 64. 

 CoTnu, Professor Maxime, at Kew, Dyer, p. 66 ; report 



on the Paris collections, p. 165-168. 

 Correlation of the Banksian herbarium and library, Car- 



ruthers, p. 135. 

 Correspondence, its extent. Dyer, p. 67 ; Murray, p. 3. 

 Corrosive sublimate as a poison, at Kew, Dyer, p. 67 ; 



— at Paris, p. 166. 

 Casson, Ernest St. Charles, letter on the British Museum 



collections, p. 145 ; — visits in 1871, p. 134. 



Cost of Botanical Department, 1868, Bennett, p. 127 ; 

 —1871, Carrutliers, p. 137 ; —1900, Murray, p. 3. 



Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce, manuscripts in the British 



Museum (Cottonian MSS.), p. 111. 

 Crag mollusca, Searles-Wood collection, 1083. 

 Crinoids, recent and fossil in Museum, Woodward, 



1083. 



Crombie, Rev. J. M., lichens named by him; Holrms, 

 486 ; — mentioned, Solvies, 475. 



Cromwell Road, timbers. Dyer, p. 82 ; — see also 



British Mxtseui,!. 

 Cross-references in herbarium desirable. Holmes, '^■79. 



Crown, Kew formerly a r)rivate garden of the, p. 113. 



Cryptogams, at Paris, p. 166 ; — imperfectly repre- 

 sented at Kew, Murray, 117, 118 ; — in museums, at 

 Kew, Dyer, p. 94 ; — increased at the British 

 Museum, Murray, 117, 118, p. 3 ; • — not worked as 

 by witness, Hiern, 989 ; King, 261, 262 ; — observa- 

 tions on collections. Dyer, 1305 ; — sets issued, Mur- 

 ray. 62 ; — should be with phanerogams. Groves, 354- 



Cryiatogams- — continued. 



357; Murray, 197; — unknown value of the two col- 

 lections, blasters, 722 ; — vascular, collections at 

 Kew, Dyer, p. 64 ; —work on fossil, Seward, 891, 

 912. 



Cultivators, go to Kew for names, Elwes, 1048 ; 

 — hardly to the British Museum, Elwes, 1048. 



Cultures, professor of, at Paris, p. 167 ; ■ — started at 

 Kew, Dyer, p. 64. 



Cunningham, R., work on Kew herbarium under W. 

 T. Alton, p. 141. 



Cunningham, R. O., eolleotions made by. Dyer, p. 

 85 ; — ^his advice as to their disposal, Bichardsj p. 

 148. 



Curator of Kew, Dyer, p. 59. 



Curators of botanic gardens from Kew, Dyer, p. 64 ; 

 — of stations, Dyer, p. 76. 



Out plants supplied to art school. Dyer, p. 64. 



Cycads, special size of sheets for, Murray, p. 4 ; — fos- 

 sil, Buckland, p. 121 ; — work on, Seward, 891. 



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Darwin, Charles Robert, letter from, p. 122 ; —cited, 

 Carruthers, p. 122, 134 ; —re Index Kewensis, Dyer, 

 p. 76. 



Davies, Rev. Hugh, herbarium mentioned, Batters, p. 

 179. 



Decades Kewenses, Dyer, p. 79. 



Deficiencies in Kew library not noticed, Elwes, 1019. 



Delesseria, two species confused in the British Museum 

 herbarium. Holmes, 489. 



Departments of the British Museum when incorporated, 

 p. 111. 



Derby, Right Hon. Edward Henry, 15th Earl of, letter 

 addressed to, by G. Bentham, Dyer, p. 102. 



Deprecation of removal of the natural history depart- 

 ments, p. 117. 



Desfontaines, Joseph Rene, Ms heAarium in Paris, 

 p. 166. 



De Toni, G. B. , arrangement of Algse, Murray, p. 4. 



Devonian sharks, Woodward, 1103. 



Devonshire Commission, evidence, p. 127-149 ; — recom- 

 mendations cited. Dyer, 1358-1365 ; — — a compro- 

 mise. Dyer, p. 57 ; — not fully workable, Murray, 

 167-175. 



De Yries, H., at Kew, Dyer, p. 66. 



Diagrams for lectures, in Paris, p. 167. 



Diaries of oflicers, Murray, p. 2. 



Diatomacese, at Berlin, p. 169 ; Vienna, p. 162. 



Dickie, Dr. George, an authority on Alg83, Holmes, 

 483 ; errors in names given by him. Holmes, 477, 



485, 487-490, p. 173 ; ^names not verified. Holmes, 



477 ; remarks on these statements, Murray, p. 



178. 



Dicotyledons, at Kew, handlist. Dyer, p. 58 : — in 

 museum. Dyer, p. 58, 94 ; — ^fossil forms not studied 

 by witness, Seward, 891. 



Diesing, — ., his drawings at Vienna, p. 162. 



Difficulty of comparison of specimens in the two estab- 

 lishments, Clarke, 302. 



Directeur, limitation of the term, p. 165. 



Director, British Museum (Natural History), has 

 charge of the Index Museum, Murray, 133-135 ; 

 — of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Dyer, 1264. 



Disadvantages of competition not great. Farmer, 848- 

 855. 



Diseases investigated at Kew, Dyer, p. 66, 67, Q. 1310. 



Dismemberment by transference of fossil jjl^nts to 

 Kew, Woodward, 1060. 



Distance of Kew not prohibitive. Masters, 673, 674, 724. 



Distribution of duplicates. Dyer, 1331-1334 ; Murray, 

 144 ; — of seeds. Dyer, p. 64. 



Division of fossil plants suggested, Scott, 1115. 



Donations, accessions due to, at Berlin, p. 169 ; — Bri- 

 tish Museum, 2Iurray, p. 2 •; — Kew, Dyer, p. 74 ; 

 — Paris, p. 168 ; — St. Petersburg, p. 165 ; — Vienna, 

 p. 162. 



Drake del Castillo, at Kew, Dyer, p. 66. 



