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Holmes, Mr. Edward Morell, F.L.i^.—iontinuid. 



witness, 375; special eolleetiuiis eoinpel visits, 



375, 376 ; used by witness while at Blooiiisbury, 



375 ; — coiiipetitioii af Kew has not acted as a stimu- 

 lant, 414 ; —fossil plants Ijellevod to be in the 

 Dotanical Department, p. 173 ; —fruits common h\ 

 commerce should be in the collections,^ 430 ; — main 

 collections should be transferred to Kew, 431 ; — 



— reaidual duplicates should be left, 433 ; or else 



provided by Kew, 437, 455 ; — old collections not 

 known as being in the Museum, _412 ; —plants, few 

 which are not "representiited at Kew, p. 173 ; — pre- 

 Linneau collections shovld be transferreil, 411, 412 ; 



some ali-eady there, 411 ; — rarely possesses plants 



absent from Kew, p. 173 ; Spnacdaria, species 

 mixed in herbarium, p. 173 ; — Sinapis incanu, not 

 identified by officers, 407 ; p. 173 ; —to he made an 

 offshoot of Kew, 433 ; — trea.t.m'ent less civH than a.t 

 Kew, 377, 378 ; cf. Carrutkcys, p. 177, 178 ; —use 

 made of colleebions, 373 ; —works issued compared 

 with those from Kew, 414; Burkill, I. H., plant 

 identified by, p. 173 ; Burrows, Capt. G., plant collected 



by, 457 ; Oarruthers, Mr. W., fossil plantis nnder his 

 care, p. 173 ; — permission given to alter names, 485 ; 

 cf., p. 177, 178 ; charges controverted, Carruthcrs, p. 

 177, 178 ; Murray, p. 178 ; Chinese flora, inconvenient 

 as issued, 470, 471 ; City (of London) should possess 

 a commercial collection, 464 ; colleotions lost sight of, 

 p. 173 ; cf. 178, 179 ; competition beitween the two 

 esfcabHsliments not beneficial, 414 ; criticism of names 

 in herbarium, 483-492 ; cf. p. 173, 178, 179 ; cross- 

 references in herbarium desirable, p. 173 ; Crypto- 

 gams studied as a hobby, 373 ; — badly named in 



the Britisih Museum, 473 ; less so at Kew, 474 ; 



— should be transferred, 476 ; Curator of the Musemn 

 of the Phiarmaoeutical Society, 371 ; Dickie, Dr. G., 

 errors made by him in naming Algae, 477, p. 173 ; — 

 in his lifetime the highest British algological autho- 

 rity, 488 ; diaigs, studied by witness, 457 ; duplicates 

 should 'be amalgamated, silieet by sheet, 392 ; — ^ex- 

 cluded, 391 ; economic botany chiefly studied by wit- 

 ness, 457 ; — ^represented at Kew, 461 ; experts should 

 verify all names before incorporation, 475 ; evidence, 

 371-494, p. 173 ; —comments on. Batters, p. 179 ; 

 Carruthers, p. 177, 178 ; Murray, p. 178 ; fire-proof, 

 condition of herbarium buildings important, 417 ; 

 Forster, E., plants in his cnlleotion lost sight of, 451 ; 

 p. 173 ; cf. p. 178, 179 ; fossil plants beUeved to be 

 in the Botanical Department, p. 173 ; — no critical 

 knowledge of, 494 ; — not studaed by witnesj, 400 ; 

 — ^should be separate from the recent plants, 455 ; 

 — ^should be transferred, 439, 440 ; — vyork done in 

 Jodrell Laboratory, p. 173 ; fruits, duplicates for 

 British Museum, 431 ; —main collection should be 

 transferred, 431 ; — ^no complete collection in exist- 

 ence, 430 ; — ^one good specimen of each sufficient for 

 teaching, 432 ; — unknown forms in commerce, 435 ; 

 " Gardener's ChronHcle," plants named in, 408 ; 

 generic types, views on, 422-428 ; geographic arrange- 

 ment at Kew, 409 ; Geological Department, British 

 Museum alluded to, 444, p. 173 ; — not a.ware of the 

 fossil plants there, 446 ; — should have a series of 

 fossil plants, 494 ; Geological Museum {i.e.. Museum 

 of Practical Geology), Jermyn Streeft, supposed to 

 possess fossil plants, 441-444 ; — ^explained, p. 173 : 

 Geological Society of London, supposecl collection of 

 fossil plants, 443 ; geology, not an expert in, 494 ; 

 — ^outsi'de the usual work of .student'S, 401 ; Gepp, 

 Mr. A., Key collection of mosses ,pfr6pared by. 486 ; 

 Halymenia latifolin, Dr. Dickie's error in naming, 

 487-490, p. 173 ; herbai-ia, arrangement of, 469"; 

 — leaves cannot be well studied in, p. 176 ; — .paper 

 on, mentioned, 414-416 ; Hudson, W., plants lost to 

 sight, 411, 451, 452. p. 178, 179 ; identification, ama- 

 teurs supply insufficient miatefl'al for, 408 : — erro- 

 neous, 473-492 ; — of plants yieldjng economic pro- 

 ducts, 462 ; Jodrell Laboratory, fossil botany at, 

 p. 173 ; Keiw, accessibility compared with BriitiLsh Mu- 

 seum, 454; — algae of " Challenger " expedition in- 

 correctly named, 473 ; — amalgamation desirable at, 



379, 402 ; ^bv incorporation, 387 i ^residue 



for the Royal College of Science or British Museum, 

 389 ; — — sheet incorporatiion preferable, 392 ; — 

 — or by cabinets when sheets could not be cut down, 

 394, 395 ; — colleotions richer than those at. Crom- 

 well Eoad, 375, p. 173 ; used by witness, 374, 



376 ; wanting specimens, 376 ; — competi- 



tition not required as a stimulus, 414 ; — cor- 

 rection of names in herbarium, 484 ; crypto- 

 gamic collection better named than the Briti'sh Mu- 

 seum, 473 ; .main collection should be at Kew, 



476 ; — economic botany should be given up to Kew, 



3499. 



Holmes, Mr. Edward Morell, F.L.S.— continued. 

 461, 465 ; — ^fruits at British Museum should be 



transferred, 430 ; duplicates, provision for, 433, 



444 ; should be chief fur economic botany, 434 ; 



— — unnamed specimens, 430 ; — ^fossLl plants, p. 



173 ; ^should be transferred to, 439, 448 ; — nher- 



bjuiium arranged geographilcally, 409 ; — — 4f com- 

 pletely so would puzzle students, 410 ; used by 



him, 374, 462 ; — ^identification in future exclusively 

 done there, 407 ; — living plants facilitate reseiarch, 

 402, 404 ; — more civ'd treaitment and ready help than 

 elsewhere, 377, 378 ; — nam.es correctly given, 407 ; 

 — nearly all the plants there which are at the I3ritish 

 Museum, 460, p. 173 ; — preferable place for amalga- 

 mation, 402 ; — ^pre-Linnean collecibions should be trans^ 



ferred, 411,412 ; some already there, 411 ; — Sina- 



pis identified, 407, 449, p. 173 ; — use made of collec- 

 tions, 373 ; — visited as easily as the British Museum, 

 454 ; ■ — works published at the two establishments 

 compared, 413 ; labelling, views on, p. 173 ; leaves 

 best studied in gardens, p. 173 ; lichens named by 

 Rev. J. M. Crombie, 486 ; London, commercial col- 

 lection required in, 464 ; Merritield, Mrs., mentioned, 

 485 ; mosses, key collection, 486 ; Museum of the 

 Pharmaceutical Society, partly botanical, 372 ; 



witness is Curator, 371 ; names, erroneous, p. 



173 ; naming plants in herbaria, 481-492 ; — should 

 be done by officials, 408 ; national herbarium should 

 be at Kew, 408 ; natural orders studied by students, 

 418 ; Nitophyllum misnamed, p. 173 ; objections to 

 uncorrected errors in naming, p. 173 ; phanerogams 

 studied professionally by witness, p. 173 ; " Phar- 

 maceutical Journal," plants named by for the public, 

 408 ; plant-types for popular use, p. 173 ; pollen 

 best studied in gardens, p. 173 ; popular use 

 of types, p. 173 ; pre-Linnean collections should 

 be transferred to Kew, 411, 412 ; — some already 

 there, 411 ; reasons for restricting access, Carruthers, 

 p. 177 ; reference collection defined, 418 ; — herba- 

 rium should be systematically arranged, 405 ; — might 

 be arranged geographically, 409 ; research results 

 should be published by the nation, 469 ; Bhody- 

 menia, error in naming, 487-490, p. 173 ; Royal Col- 

 lege of Science, as a teaching establishment, 429 ; 

 Schizymenia misnamed, p. 173 ; Sinapis matched at 

 Kew, p. 173 ; South Kensington collections not much 

 visited by witness, 373 ; species more than one on the 

 same sheet, 473, 484-489, p. 173 ; specimens mixed at 

 the British Museum, p. 173 ; Sphacelaria species 

 mixed in the herbarium, p. 173 ; students of pollen 

 or leaves, their requirements, 398 ; — teaching collec- 

 tion, conditions for consultation, 398 ; teaching, views 

 on, 467, 478 ; types of natural orders, 418-422, 426 ; 

 — continued to genera, 423 ; — requii'ed for popular 

 use, p. 173 ; unaware of the different sized sheets at 

 the two establishments, 393 ; uncorrected names in 

 specimens, p. 173 ; views on catalogue of British 

 Algfe, Carruthers, p. 178 ; Westminster Medical 

 School, formerly taught botany at, 467. 



Hongkong flora. Dyer, p. 65. 



Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, at Kew, Dyer, p. 65 ; anxiety 

 as to fire. Dyer, p. 95 ; botanic collections at Kew 

 before the time of Sir "W. .J. Hooker, p. 141 ; British 

 flora, estimated extent, p. 137 ; career of, p. 150 ; 

 collection of fossils transferred, Murray, 47 ; Wood- 

 ward, 1063, 1084 ; correspondence with the Admiralty, 

 Dyer, p. 86 ; — with the British Museum, Dyer, p. 



85-87 ; evidence, 1858, p. 119 ; cited, Carruthers, 



p. 133, 135, 137 ; Owen, p. 153 ; —1871, p. 127-130 ; 



cited, Carruthers, p. 133 ; facilities at Kew for- 



scientific work, p. 119 ; flora, British, estimate of its 

 extent, p. 137 ; fossil plants collected by. Dyer. p. 

 94 ; — transferred, Murray, 47, p. 4 ; JVoodward, 1063, 

 1084 ; gift of Gay's herbarium, p. 150 ; Dyer, p. 76 ; 

 herbarium at Kew requisite for garden purposes, p. 

 119 ; — cited, Carruthers, p. 133, 135, 137 ; his Indian 

 collections, Dyer, p. 76 ; letter, adhering to his former 

 evidence, p. 177 ; • — on Bauer's drawings. Dyer, p. 



101 ; memorandum as to collections. Dyer, p. 87 ; 

 motion concerning, in the House of Lords, Dyer, p. 



102 ; Museums at Kew, p. 127 ; —cited, p. 139 ; New 

 Zealand flora. Dyer, p. 65 ; plants annotated by, their 

 value, Murray, 154 ; Rendle's help eiven to, on 

 grasses, Murray, 119 ; statement as to purchase of 

 Hookerian herbarium, p. 142 ; suggestion to Devon- 

 shire Commission, Dyer, 1357 ; views combated, Car~ 

 ruthers, 578.- (See also Kew.) 



Hooker, Sir William Jackson, advantages of trans- 

 ferring British Museum collections, p. 118 ; — cited. 



