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I Monographers, cclleotions consulted br, Elwcs, 1052 ; 

 Masttis, 720 ; ]ier])anum arranged :vft*r, Murray, p. 4. 



ilontagiie, J. ¥. C, crvptogamio herlxirium at Paris, p. 



156. " . 



Montague House, eskiiblishmciit, p. 111. 



2VIoore, Mr. .S. L., at Kew, Dyer, p. 65; — on a new 

 acaujtliaceous plaat, Clarke, 302. 



Morphologic coliectio;i, at the British Museum, Car- 

 ruthers, 590-601 ; Masters, 705-709, 711-713 ; Murray, 

 132, 137, 151 ; — at Kew, not sufhcieutlT used, Dyer, 

 p. 64 ; — at tlie Koyal College of Science, Fanner, 828- 

 834 ; — at Vienna, p. 162. 



Morris, Dr. Daniel, appointed Cooixmiseioner of Agricul- 

 ture, West Indies, Vyer, p. 76. 



Mosses, arrangemeiiit, Murray, p. 4. 



Mougeot, J. B., exsiccata at Pans, p. 166. 



Murcliison, Sir Eoderick Inipey, memorial signed by, 

 1847, p. 113. 



JSIuiray, Mr. (jeorge Robei't Milne, F.ll.S., accessions, 

 61, 62, p. 3 ; accumulations, aocessiible to enquirers, 

 p. 4 ; — now rapidly being reduced, p. 4 ; acaaemies, 

 publications accessible in the general librar}', p. 4 ; 

 adaptations of plants shown, 12 ; additional cost during 

 amalgamatioji, 92, 98, 99 ; — ^informatioii, p. 174, 178 ; 

 additions, each institution gats as many as practicable, 

 156 ; advantages of two herbaria, 113 ; adrnce, equally 

 competent at either establishment, 163 ; African 

 botanj', certain areas rich.er than at Kew, 74, 75 ; 

 Algse, arrangeanent, p. 4 ; amalgamation, by cabinets 

 would lead to incorporation, 153 ; — ^no econoany, 88- 



94 ; additional cost during, 92, 93, 98, 99 ; —not 



desirable, 113 ; — should be in London, 113, 114 ; aaiti- 

 quarian, the word historical substituted, 41 ; applied 

 ■botany, referred to Kew, 29 ; arrangements, authoii- 

 ties used in, p. 4 ; — of specimens, the main work of 

 the staff, 33 ; — ^plants not incorporated, 65 ; aiTange- 

 . ments for working out collections, 172 ; assistants, per- 

 manent and temporairy, 4, 5 ; — ^research by, 121-123 ; 

 — ^work, 140 ; attendance of visitors, p. 3 ; Australia, 

 perhaps richer than Kew in types from, 160, 162 ; 

 Baker, J. G., vasculax ciyptogams arranged after, p. 4 ; 

 Banks, Bt. Hon. Sir J., Bart., his herbarium, p. 3 ; 

 — not kept separate, 42 ; — fossils, p. 4 ; — library re- 

 mained at Bloomsbury, 176 ; Bentham and Hooker, 

 pha-ierogams arranged according to, p. 4 ; Berlin, ex- 

 changes with, 68 ; — organisation copied, 152 ; Besclie- 

 relle iierbarium, 67 ; bioiding, allowance, p. 3 ; — ex- 

 penses, 97 ; — might be halved by union, 103 ; Birk- 

 beck Institution, students from, p. 3 ; Bloomsbury, re- 

 moval from, attracted visitors, 27, 28 ; — ^consequent 

 - additi'oaiial space, p. 3 ; books, p. 3 ; — ^liow procured, 

 17 ; — saving on union small, 93, 94, 102 ; booksellers 

 employed', p. 4 ; botanic information afforded by the 

 staff, p. 2 ; BotaJiical Department, fossils transferred 

 under own charge, 47-50 ; cf. TFoodivard, 1063, 1064, 

 1081, 1084-1086 ; botanists, facilities for monograph- 

 ing, 17, 79 ; — pre-Linnean herbaria not a popular dis- 

 play, 40, 41 ; — provincial and foreign, prefer London 

 amalgamation, 114 ; —recorded opinions on 

 herbarium-sheets, 154 ; p. 178 ; botany, econo- 

 mic, referred to Kew, 29 ; —systematic, largely 

 based on the pre-Linnean collections, p. 3 ; 

 Bower, Prof. F. O., work on fossil plants, 

 53 ; British botanists, their types before 1841 all 

 practically in the Department, 37 ; —plants in pub- 

 he gallery, 130, 131 ; — Mycetozoa, Guide, 35, p, 3 ; 

 British herliarium, p. 2, 4 ; —consists of native speci- 

 mens only, 46, 83; Brofwn, R., codleotion of fossil 

 plants, 47, p. 4 ; —cone described by, 53 ; —her- 

 barium, p. 3 ; mentioned, 42 ; —plants annotated 



by, 154 ; cabinets, provided with moveable trays, p. 4 ; 

 —number, p. 178 ; — required on amalgama- 

 tion, 89-91 ; camphor used as a preservative, 

 p. 4 ; - carpological collection in special boxes, 

 56 ; —fairly complete, 58 ; carriage, where 

 charged, 97; Cari-uthers, W., fossil plants. 

 47, p. 4; catalogues, cost partly repaid, 97, 

 105 ; — official, p. 3, 4 ; — — ^printing same, p. 3 ; 

 -Central Hall, exhibition, 133-135 ; clubs, assisted by 

 staff, 6 ; collections, accessions, 61, 62 ; — disposal 

 -chiefly a personal question, 96, p. 3 ; — for teaching 

 purposes, p. 3 ; — if consisting of duplicates not bought" 

 126 ; — ^new forms found in, 152 ; — ^not existing else- 

 where, 36, 39 ; — when unnamed, consume more time, 

 152 ; collectors previously instructed, p. 3 ; colonies', 

 involve economic questions, 164 ; comparison, proxi- 

 mity of specimens important for, 84 ; competition prac- 



Murray, IMr. George llobert Milne, F.R.S.- — eunlinued. 

 tically jion-existent, 128, lo6 ; • — a lie^ilthy stimulus, 

 156 ; corresiiondcnco with botanists, p. 3 ; Ci'own 

 Colo'iiies, enquiries fi jiu the agents, 164 ; cryptogami>, 

 accessions since removal, 118, p. 3 ; — imperiecriy re- 

 presented at Kew, 117 ; — increase, 117, p. 3 ; ■ ■ 



predominate over the Kew collections, 116, 162 ; 

 —resulting from (iovernment expeditions, 173 ; — 

 sets, 62 ; — should not be separated from jHiaiie- 

 rogams, 197 ; — unarranged, none, 67 ; — visitors 

 foir, dimiiii.shed during reeonstiuotion, p. 3 ; 

 cycads, special size of sheets, p. 4 ; daily visits, 

 ^, 23; demarcation between the two establisiliments 

 never reached, 166 ; desultory work avoided, 152; De 

 Toni, G. B. , Algae reaivranged according to, p. 4; 

 Devonshire Commiission, jdan proposed unworkable, 

 167-175 ; diaries of tlie otticers, p. 2 ; Director lias 

 the funds for the public exhibition, 133-135 ; disitai- 

 bution of duplicates, no fixed system, 144 ; drawings, 

 collection of, p. 4 ; drugs, questions concerning, re- 

 ferred to Kew, 29; Dublin, types at, 37 ; Dulau and 

 Co., as booksellers, p. 4; duplicate room, 66, 68; 

 duplicates, bequests contain, 126 ; — ^collections, 66, 

 71 ; — if eliminated, 154, 155 ; — no hxed systenn of 

 diistributiom, 144 ; — what constitute them, 154* ; 

 duties of ofhcers, p. 2 ; economic bottany, referred to 

 Kew, 29 ; — questions involved by colonial miatters, 

 164 ; — — jjrimary function of Kew, lf6 ; 

 Edinbuigh, herbarium at, 194 ; — types at, 37 ; 

 educational use of collections, p. 2, 3 ; elimination of 

 duplicates, 154, 155; Elliot, G. F. S., his collectiong 

 divided, 128, 172 ; Engler, Dr. A., methods at Berlin, 

 152 ; enquiries, staff in relation to, 32 ; evidence, 1- 

 198, p. 1-13 ; examination, by boiling, p. 4 ; • — pur- 

 poses of the establishment, 14, 16 ; excliange of speci. 

 mens, p. 3 ; exchanges, from duplioate room, 63 ; 

 — included in figures, 63 ; exhibition, comjpared. with 

 others, 149 ; — ^for people partiailly instructed, 150 ; 

 — none similar to it in London, 141 ; expansion, room 

 for, 110 ; extra time, not paid for, 122, 123 ; Farmer, 

 Professor J. B., and his studefnts, 186; — no except 

 tional treatment, 193 ; — no set lecture in the her- 

 barium, 189 ; ferns, arrangement, p. 4 ; — ^special size 

 of paper for, p. 4 ; Ferro, pre-Linnean herbarium 

 transferred from Kew, p. 3 ; field clubs, assisted by 

 staff, 6 ; fire, a reaso-n against amalgamation, 115 ; 

 fire-proof building esseirtial, 88 ; — coillections housed 

 in, p. 4 ; fire-risk on amialgamiation, 98, 115 ; Flower, 

 Sir W. H., agreement as to transference of fossils, 47, 

 48, 49 ; p. 4 ; — ifunds in Iris hands, 133 ; — on Index 

 Museum, 133 ; — ipolicy as to popular instruction, 11, 

 12 ; fluid, plants in, compared with miodels, 138 ; 

 fossil plants, collections in one series, 47 ; — Keeper 

 of Botany, has charge of them, 47 ; — — controverted, 

 Woodward, 1081 ; — now sent to British Museum 

 from Government expeditions, 171 ; — returned after 



being borrowed. Woodward, 1063 ; including 



Brown's and Hooker's collections. Woodward, 1063 ; 

 — when well preserved useful to stratigraphic geolo- 

 gists, 87 ; Foster, Sir M., division of Scott Elliot's 

 collections, 128, 172 ; fruits, p. 2 ; — .arranged near 

 the dried plants, p. 3 ; — colleotions included in the 

 heiflaarium when possible, 56, 57 ; — ^when large, 

 placed in the carpological series, 56 ; fungi, arrange- 

 ment, p. 4 ; furniture and fitttings, p. 3 ; 

 — enormous cost on amalgamation, 88, 89, 106 ; 

 —large lamount on removal, 89 ; galleries, de- 

 voted to exhibition, 7, 8 ; — ^uise defined, 78 ; 

 genera, how arranged, p. 4 ; general herbarium, p. 2 ; 

 — ^compared to Kew, 74, 77 ; — no British plants in 

 it, 46, 83 ; general library, 94, 178 ; — ^ilts speciality, 

 179 ; genus, undetermined plants in eaoh, 3^4 ; geo- 

 graphic arrangement confined to ispecdes, p. 4 ; 

 — botany, great progress miade a* Kew, 170 ; Geological 

 Department, fo.ssil plants in, 47 ; — ^under the charge 

 of the Keeper of Botany, p. 4 ; geologists, fossil plants 

 not much used by, 59, 60, ^-87 ; gift, accessions by, 

 p. 3; glue not employed, p. 4; Government expedi- 

 tions, plants now sent to Kew, 171, 172 ; — requisi- 

 tions from, rare, p. 3 ; groups of plants under geo- 

 graphic arrangement, p. 4 ; guides to collections, p. 

 3, 4 ; gum, not glue, as an adhesive, p. 4 ; her- 

 barium, access of students, 129 ; — ^accessions, p. 3 ; 

 —consulted by pailaeobotanists, 109 ; — ^for use of 

 teachers, 130 ; — incorporated, p. 3 ; patrolled during 

 the night, 98 ; — possibly stronger than Kew in parts', 

 158, 159 ; — somnolent once. 156 ; — staff consulted 

 by palaeobotanists, 108, 109 ; — ^used for Seward's 

 "Weialden plants," 87; — utilised for palaeobotany, 

 53, 54; — ' — enormous convenience of contiguous col- 

 lections, 55 ; Hepatics, present and future arrange- 



