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DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON BOTANICAL WORK : 



Masters, Dr. Maxwell Tylden, F.R.S.—<:ontinued. 

 Museum, 666, 684 ; botanists at, British Museum and 

 Kew, 621 ; —casual visits might be met by leaving 

 Brditish herbarium at Cromwell Road, 700 ; Britiish 

 Museum at Bloomsbury and at South Kensington 

 visited by him, 710 ; — ^accesisibility advantageous, 

 674 ; — -amateui's, imrpoi-itant fonthem, 673 ; — arrange- 

 memt less deslrabile than the Keiw plan, 636, 637, 6o5, 

 671, 672 ; — boots less 'accessible than those a/t Kew, 

 676 ; — ^botanical sequence observed, 666, 684 ; — 

 iotanists casual visits might be anet by llea/vLng British 

 herbarium at, 700 ; — ^Batish liei<barium, 647 ; — 



— should be left, 648, 651, 654 ; sufScient for 



chance visitors, 699 ; — ^collections less rich than 

 .Kew, 718, 719 ; —dilettanti, important for, 678 ; — 

 expense of transfer hardly warranted, 657, 658, 680 ; 

 — ^fossil plants should not be transferred .from, 747- 

 755 ; — garden plants, why now named at, 756-762 ; 

 — ihisitoric herbaria should be left, 647, 655 ; — ■ — ^few 



study them, 650 ; reisearch_at, 624, 629 ; — ^horti- 



cultiurisits rarely consult it, 739, 740 ; — .journialists 

 .get plants named there, 756-762 ; — library should 



not be added to, 690, 691 ; less easy to consult 



th'am Kew, 676 ; — imorpholo^Joal collections, 705 ; 



anucli used, 705-7C8 ; — old collections at, 621, 



647 ; — phanerogams probably less rich than Kew, 

 721, 722 ; — plants named for journalists, 756-762 ; 

 — pre-Linnean herbaria, 647 ; —researches finished at, 

 695 ; — rivalry a possible stimulus, 659, 660 ; — staff 

 name plants for journalists, 756-762 ; — ^suspension 

 of enlargeiment, 729 ; — ^students not taken by him to, 

 709 ; — teratology not represented at, 714, 715 ; — 



union of herbaria, desirable, 635, 640 ; methods 



641 ; — ^unity of collections not practically advanta- 

 geous, 692 ; competing establishments, 725 ; — de- 

 pilored, 727 ; — not oonduoive to science, 728 ; com- 

 plete collection desirable, 723, 734 ; — never 

 attainable, 735 ; cryptogams, cannot assert 

 the respective pre-eminence of either estab- 

 lishment, 722 ; dilettanti, British Musemn 

 important for, 678 ; distance no impedi- 

 ment to use of Kew, 638, 639, 673, 693, 724 ; 

 editor of the "Gardeners' Chr'onicle," 620; eduoa- 

 tiional basis for secondiaTy coillectaon, 736, 754 ; — her- 

 biarium at the British Museum, 651. 652 ; — ^new col- 

 lection, 656 ; energy of officials, 663, 664 ; evidence, 

 620-762 ; exipense of removal hardly warranted, 657, 

 658, 680 ; fossil plants should noit 'be taken from the 

 British Museum, 747-755 ; garden p'Hants named at 

 IKew, 652 ; — why named at Brutish Museum, 7'S6- 

 762 ; gardens at Kew important for naming, 702, 

 703 ; geographic arrangement at Kew, advantageous, 

 665, 666, 684 ; — ^formerly absent. 686 ; — not in use 

 ■at British Museum, 684, 685 ; geologic collection 

 should possess the fossil plants, 749 ; Government 

 collections at Kenv, the reason for Its greater michness, 

 662 ; herbaria, amialgamation preferably at Kew, 635, 

 640 ; — reasons, 636, 637 ; historic botany, few study 

 -it, 650 ; — ^herbaria at British Museum should be left 

 there, 647, 655 ; — none believed to be at Kew, 675 ; 

 — iresearch at British M-useum, 624, 629 ; horticuil- 

 turists chiefly go to Kew, 621, 701. 738 : — rarely to 

 JBritish Museum, 621, 739, 740 ; intercalation of cabi- 

 nets the best way of union, 642, 643 ; journalists geit 

 plants named at British Museum, 756-762 ; Kew, 

 -amalgamation preferably at, 635, 640 ; — — reasons 

 given, 636, 637 ; — arrangement of plants at, 636, 

 637, 665, 671, 672 ; — ibookis at, 'easier consulted, 676 ; 

 — 'collecitions iiicher Itllian British Museum, 627 ; • — due 

 to reception of Government collections, 662, 633 ; 

 — fossil plants can be there compared with recent, 

 748-750,755 ; —its former teratological collection, 741- 

 746 ; — librai-y more accessible than British Museum, 

 676 ; — phamerogaiinic collection heitter at Kew than 

 British Museum, 721, 722 ; — ^researches generally 

 begun at, 694 ; — reasons for not getting plants nam-ed 

 at, 759-762 ; — size of sheets an impediment to incor- 

 poration, 645 ; — should be the head establishment, 

 729 ; — teratological collection formerly there, 742- 

 746 ; — union at Kew desirable, 635, 640 ; ^me- 

 thods, 641 ; library at British Museum should not be in- 

 creased, 690, 691 ; — that at Kew the more accessible, 

 676 ; Linnean herbarium in London, 649 ; London 

 requirements, 711-713 ; monographers must consult 

 Kew collections, 633 ; morphological collection at 

 IBritish Museum, 705 ; —much used, 706-708 ; 

 natural system employed at the British ]\Iuseum, 

 688 ; old collections at the British Museum, 621 ; — 

 old herbaria, 647 ; oscillation of visitors between 

 IKew and the British Museum, 697 ; — that would 

 ■cease on amalgamation, 698 ; phanerogams at Kew 



Masters, Dr. Maxwell Tylden, F. U.S.— continued. 

 better than at the British Museum, 721, 722 ; 

 pre-Lmnean herbaria at the British Museum, 647 ; 

 present arrangement of bot>h eollections satisfactory, 

 o80, 682 ; researches begun generally at Kew, 694 ; 

 — hnishcd at the Britishi Museum, 69o ; — involving a 

 final vis^t to Kew, 696, 697 ; — sihould be the aim of the 

 ohief herbarium, 736 ; rivalry possibly a stimulus, 659, 

 650 ; starting de novo, only one coUection should be 

 maintained, 733 ; scientific work not hindered by pre- 

 sent methods, 730, 732, 737 ; sheet incoiporation aluiost 

 impossible, 644 ; size of sheets in two herbaria a bai 

 to complete incorporation, 645, 669 ; staff of the British 

 Museum name piants for journals, 756-762 ; stimulus 

 of rivalry, 659, 060 ; students not taken to the British 

 Museum by witness, 709 ; teratology, attractive, 716, 

 717 ; ■ — ^collection presented by him to Kew, 742 



now at the Royal College of Surgeons, 744-746 



^was formed some years ago, 745 ; — no collec- 

 tion at the British Museum, 714 ; nor Kew, now, 



742, 743 ; — should be represented, 715 ; time required 

 for incorporation a drawback, 646 ; types should be at 

 Kew, 729 ; — but not now to be rectified, 730 ; union of 

 herbaria at Kew desirable, 635, 640 ; — methods, 641 ; 

 unity of collections at the British Museum not prac- 

 tically advantageous, 692. 



Maskelyne, Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story, F.R.S., attrac- 

 tions of Kew, p. 125 ; — ^British Museum as a centre of 

 work, p. 126 ; — evidence, p. 126 ; — Kew as a place 

 of scientific resort, p. 126 ; — opinion as to the two 

 establishments, p. 126. 



Massalongo, A., exsicca/ta at Paris, p. 166. 



Material, unarranged, at the British Museum, Murray, 



p. 4; ^reported to be large, Dyer, 1330; — at 



Kew, a minimum. Dyer, p. 94. 



Mauritius flora. Dyer, p. 65. 



Mayne, Capt., Magelhaen collection, Dyer, p. 85. 



Medallions of botajiists at Kew, Dyer, p. 58. 



Meller, Dr. C. J., Madagascar collection, Dyer, p. 85. 



Memorandum of H. M. OfSce of Works, 1868, p. 126 ; 

 —1873, p. 151. 



Memorial against removal of collections, p. 117 ; — on 



Kew management, 1872, p. 149 ; cited, p. 139 ; 



— ^on purchase of Hooker collections, p. 142 ; — ^to H.M. 

 Treasury, from the British Association, 1847, p. 113 ; 

 ^regarding the national herbaxia, 1872, p. 146. 



Menissier, A., on Kew, Dyer, p. 60, 64. 



Merrifield, Mrs. M. P., Algse named by her, Holmes, 

 485. 



Mesozoic plants, external characters, Seward, 896 ; — ^no 

 recent woaiker on, Seward, 914 ; — studied by witness, 

 Seward, 891 ; — ^wanting in structure, Seiuard, 895. 



Micheli, M. Marc, at Kew, Dyer, p. 66. 



Microscope, slides at Berlin, p. 169 ; — Cromwell Road, 

 Murray, 148, p. 2 ; — ^at Kew, no collection. Dyer, 

 p. 58 ; at Paris, p. 166, 167 ; — at Vienna, p. 161 ; 

 — ^usually deteriorate, Farmer, 839. 



Microscopes, provided for study, Murray, 80 ; Seward, 

 910, 911, 924. 



MicroBoopic work in fossil plamits, Seward, 910, 911. 



Miers, Johp, on the henbairium of the British Mu'seum, p. 

 147 ; — referred as probably the " Hammersmith 

 botanist," p. 125. 



Milanji, plants at the British Museum, Dyer, 1354. 



MUhe-Poutingon, A., report on Kew, Dyer, p. 67-74. 



Milne, A., letter, p. 99. 



Mineral collection at the BritMi Museum, very impoitant, 

 Lankester, 1154. 



Mineralogical Department, early history, Woodward, 

 1062. 



Mineralogy at the British Museum, Owen, p. 126. 



Minute, see Treasury Minute. 



Miscellaneous notes in "Kew Bulletin," Dyer, p. 81. 



Models in the British Museum, Murray, 138, 139, 149 ; 

 — in Kew Museums, Dyer, p. 58. 



Molony, Sir C. A., rubber trade, of West Africa, Dyer, 

 p. 76. 



Monocotyledans, in Kew Arboretum, hand list, Dyer, p. 



58 ; — — Museums, Dyer, p. 58, 94 ; ^tender, hand 



list. Dyer, p. 58 ; — need atudj^ing in living specimens, 

 Elwes, 1008, 1022 ; — ^not studied by witness in fosai'l 

 forms, Seward, 891. 



