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DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON BOTANICAL WORK; 



Xing, Sir George, F.R.S. — continued. 



from Kew, 271 ; emulation concei.vably ad-vantageous, 

 234 ; Europe, representative herbarium should be 

 kept at the British Museum, 225 ; evidence, 199- 

 296 ; exhibition for the public should be retained 

 at Crcanwell Road, 221-223, 263-266; expense of 

 amiailgam'ation should not be oonsidered,_ 213, 252, 

 233 ; facilities recoimmended for public use of 

 museum oollections, 223, 237 ; fire, British Museum 

 <;ollecitaonjs probably secure from, 244 ; — Kew col- 

 lections most unsafe, 244 ; dangerous condition, 



284-288 ; fireproof building at Calcutta Herbarium, 

 and its cost, 246, 252 ; — essential before transfer 

 oi museum collections, 244 ; flora of the Straits 

 Settlements, Dyer, p. 98 ; geographical arrangement 

 suggested, 225-226, 243 ; herbarium according to 

 colonies, 223 ; — ^miain collection to be at Kew, 210 ; 

 — ^needed for gardens, 294 ; — — 'inclusive of types, 

 294 ; historic herbaria to be sent to Kew, 231 ; in- 

 corporation by cabinets preferred, 211, 212, 214, 215, 

 236 ; India, agriculture in, Dyer, p. 78 ; — repre- 

 sentative herbarium to be at Cromwell Road, 223, 

 290, 292 ; Kew, amalgamiation at, desirable, 204, 

 205, 219, 266 ; by cabinets, 240 ; by con- 

 tiguous buildings, 215. 236-238 ; — — complete in- 

 coarporation of sheets, 236, 238 ; — arnangement good, 

 275, 276 ; — dTiplicates to be gi^adually discarded, 

 259 ; — — supply to British Museum, 271 ; — fire, 

 risk of, 244, 284-288 ; — ^fireproof building impera- 

 tive before any ainalgamiaition, 244 ; — (herbaiium to be 

 sent from British Museum, 210 ; — inadequacy of 

 ■present buildings, 242 ; — labonatory arrangements 

 needed in herbarium, 296 ; — Linnean herbarium 

 might be acquired by, 231 ; • — new plants should be 

 dealt with at Kew, 271 ; — pre-Linnean herbaria 

 to be sent to Kew, 231 ; ■ — reference herbarium, 217, 

 219 ; — research herbarium, 277, 281 ; — reserve of 

 specimens, 223 ; — ^size of sheets a hindrance to in- 

 corporation, 212 ; — space at Kew inadequate, 253, 

 257 ; — table-fspace inadequate, 253, 255^; — types 

 needed, 218, 231, 294 ; laboratory arrangements re- 

 quired at Kew, 296 ; Linmean herbiai'ium migiht be 

 acquired for Kew. 231 ; new plants should be sent 

 at first to Kew, 271 ; palaeontologists, arrangements 

 for, 257 ; phanerogams, remarks exclusively apply 

 to, 260 ; pre-Linnean herbaria should be at Kew, 

 231 ; public exhibition should be left at Cromwell 

 Hoad, 221-223, 263-266 ; reference herbarium at the 

 British Museum, should be accurately named, 278, 

 279 ; —at Kew, 217, 219 ; research herbarium, 277, 

 281 ; reserve of specimens for British Museum from 

 Kew, 223 ; rivalry may be advantageous, 234 ; Royal 

 College of Science, herbarium for, arranged geo- 

 graphically, 243, 269 ; sheets, difi'erence in size, a 

 Tiindrance to incorporation, 212 ; space at Kew in- 

 adequate, 253, 257 ; Straits Settlements flora. Dyer, 

 p. 98 ; Switzerland, a representative herbarium of, 

 ishould be at the British Museum, 225, 226 ; — ^in 

 natural orders, 230 ; — 'would not be costly, 228 ; 

 ■svstematic arrangement in the united herbarium, 

 230 ; table-space at both establishments inadequate, 

 253, 255, 257 ; types needed at Kew, 218, 294 ; —the 

 whole should b» there, 231. 



Kirk, Sir John, .at Kew, Dyer, p. 65 ; collections 

 made by. Dyer. p. 85 ; originator of the East Coast 

 rubber trade, Dyer^ p. 76. 



Knatohbull, Sir E., named in Banks's will, p. 101. 



Kna.t'.'hbuU-Hug'essen, E., afterwards 1st Baron Bra- 

 bourne, Banksian papers (see Bbabotjene). 



Xonig, Charles, evidence as to the position of R. 

 Brown in the British Museum, p. Ill ; ■ — ^liis " Icones 

 fossilium secti'Ies " contains manv fossil -plants, 

 Woodward. 1061 ; — ^Iceeper of the Geological Depart- 

 ment, 1815-51, Woodward, 1061 ; ■ — ^under-librarian 

 of matural history, p. 111. 



Krai, ¥., preparations of bacteria at Vienna, p. 162. 



TJabelling, in the British Museum, Murray, 12 ; — in. 

 the Kew Museums, HooJcer, p. 128 ; — ^views on, 

 Holmes, p. 173. 



T-abels not popularised, Woodward, 1097. 



Xaboratoiy, at the British Museum, Murray, p. 4 ; 



— — cryptogamic preparations, Murray, 145, 146 ; 



— — morphologic and systemaitic botany in, Murray, 

 145, 147 ; — at Kew, how used. Dyer, p. 66 ; rea- 



Laboratory — co ntinued. 



St. Petersburg, p. 165 ; — ^requirements wanting at 

 herbarium, King, 286, 296; see also Kew, Jodrell 



Laboratory. 



Lagos, rubber trade at, Dyer, p. 76. 



Laniarck, J. B. M., Chevalier de, his herbarium at 

 Pans, p. 166. 



Lambert, A. B., specimens collected by W. Hudson in 

 his herbarium, Batters, p. 179. 



Lange, Dr. J. E., at Kew, Dyer, p. 66. 



Lankester, Professor Edwin Ray, F.R.S., advantages 

 of botanical and zoological collections under 

 one roof, very small, 1140; Agriculture, Board 

 of, airangement as to zoological questions, 1186- 

 j.j.aii ; with Kew for botany, 1188 1190 - 

 -removal of botanical collections would not 

 interfere, 1190, 1192; amalgamation, m- 

 volvmg building would be costly, 1164 1165 • 



^aTw/"'' n^' ^,^i^rP°l°gy> ^ts claims' greate; 

 than botany, 1151, 1166 ; biologic arrangement of 

 tossils in Geological Department, 1148 ; botanic col- 

 lections, none should be retained at the British 

 Museum, 1157 1162 ; -not used by students, 1156, 

 1171 ; —should be transferred to Kew, 1150 • 

 botanists the only students of fossil plants 1146 • 

 botany, claims of other branches stronger 1151 • 

 keeper of the Department and the Index Museum', 



iiJo'n '. 'J'^n';^^"^"' '^°^^d ^ot '^e retained 

 1162 ; Central Hall Index Museum, 1183 ; collections 

 if transferred from Kew would entail additional 

 building, 1138, 1151 ; -if to Kew, would give addi- 

 tional space, 1138 ; " edification " the purpSse of the 

 Museum, 1152, 1153; edi:<cation, no part of the 

 tunctions of the Museum, 1152, 1157 1170 1185 • 



J:'\}^°7 ' facility of access to Kew, 1175 ; Flower, 

 Sir W. H Index Museum, 1183 ; —series of teeth 

 stiown, 1155 ; fossil plants do not need a lar<^e her- 

 barium of recent plants, 1142; -might be trans- 

 erred, 1146, 1178; -not regarded as geological, 

 1196 ; —required for stratigraphic purposes, 1195 ; 

 —should be with living plants, 1178 ; —should not 

 be kept apart, 1146 ; general herbarium, its transfer- 

 ence would not injure other Departments, 1139 



1141 ; geologic specimens, their qualitv, 1178 ; Geo- 

 logical Department essentially palajontological, 1142, 

 1143 ; —fossil plants not treated geologically, 1148 ;' 

 palseo-zoologic arrangement, 1177; —would not 

 suffer by transference of the botany, 1159; geology 

 stratigraphic, its claims, 1151, 1166 ; herbarium of 

 recent plants needless for study of fossil plants, 1142, 

 1167, 1180 ; —should be with living plants, 1178 ;' 

 Index Museum, in Central Hall, 1183 ; instruction 

 no function of the Museum collections, 1152, 1157, 

 1170, 1185 ; Kew the botanic centre, collections 

 should be concentrated there, 1163, 1170, 1181 ; 

 living plants should be associated with herbarium 

 and fossil specimens, 1178 ; minerals, an important 

 collection, 1154 ; Museum of Practical Geology, 

 stratigraphic collection confined to Britain speci- 

 mens, 1169 ; opinion, personal, throughout the evi- 

 dence, 1152 ; palseo-botany, forms a small proportion 

 in the collections in the Geological Department, 

 1142, 1144, 1176 ; —a valuable collection, 1145 ; 

 palseontologic collections part of the zoologic, but 

 housed in the Geological Department, 1147, 1148 ; 

 paJseontologist as a type of investigator, 1146 ; 

 palseo-zoologic department of the British Museum, 



1142 ; pedagogic instruction not the purpose of the 

 British Museum, 1152, 1170 ; personal opinion only 

 in his evidence, 1152 ; popular exhibition at Crom- 

 well Road, 1170 ; public, the function of the British 

 Museum in relation to, 1152, 1174 ; recent forms 

 should be associated with fossil, 1149 ; research ma- 

 terial should be transferred to Kew, 1170 ; Royal 

 College of Science should have its teaching museums, 

 1173 ; space would be vacated by transfer of the 

 botanical collections, 1138, 1151 ; stratigraphic 

 geology, at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1169 ; 

 ^its claims, 1151, 1166 ; — should be exhibited, 

 1193-1196 ; students, botanical, none, 1156, 1157, 

 1171 ; — of dental anatomy using the Museum, 1155, 

 1157 ; —special needs of, 1174, 1184 ; teeth, series 

 shown in Central Hall, 1155, 1157 ; transference of 

 botanic collections to Kew, its effect on the British 

 Mfuseum, 1138 ; Trustees, not the mouthpiece of, 

 1152 ; vegetable kingdom, general forms shown in 

 cases, 1158, 1159 ; views on geological department, 

 1068 ; visitors to the British Museum, exhibition for, 



