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DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON BOTANICAL WORK : 



Murray, Mr. George Robert Milne, F.R.S. — continued. 

 ments, p. 4; historic collectdons, 40-41; b-vliday, 

 popular visits during a, 9; Holmes's charges, reply 

 . to, p. 178; Hooker, Sir J. D., collection of fossil 

 plants, 47; p. 4; — on Indian flora, 74; —plants, 

 annotated by, 154 ; — wanted help on grasses, 119 ; 

 Hookei, Sir W. J., and J. G. Baker, "Synopsis 

 fiilicum," the authority for arranging ferns, p. 4; 

 identiiioation of specimens, 124 ; — lielp in, 18-20 ; 

 importi^rs of drugs referred to Kew, 29 ; incorpora- 

 tion of specimens, p. 3; — —continuous, p. 4 ; — desa 



than acquirements, 70 ; explanation, 71 ; • 



rapid reduction, 66, 69, 72 ; — not laid in, 64, 66 ; 

 —yet available, 65 ; incorporation of both herbaria, 

 labcmr immense, 93; — would result from amalga- 

 mation by cabinets, 153 ; India, botanists work first 

 .at Kew, 161 ; — ^Kew collections outweigh British 

 Museum, 74, 77, 157, 161 ; initial expense of union 

 large, 98, l06, 107, 112, 115 ; instruction of collectors, 

 p. 3 ; — ^popular, 6 ; instrmnents for botanic work 

 provided, 79 ; interchanged visits of staffs, 113, 119, 

 120 ; Jaeger, A. and — Sauerbeck, mosses arranged 

 according to, p. 4 ; Keeper of Botany, 1 ; — ^his 

 duties, p. 2 ; Kew, African collections, 74, 75 ; 

 — botanist living at, prefers London for amalgamation, 

 153 ; ■ — India better represented at, than at the British 

 Museum, 74, 77 ; — needs a herbarium, 194 ; — prac- 

 tice aa to duplicates, 127 ; labelling of exhibition col- 

 lection, 12 ; — ^nearly completed, 13 ; labels, printed 

 for gallery, 97 ; laboratory, p. 4 ; — microscopic pre- 

 parations in, 148 ; — not confined to cryptogams, 

 J.45 ; • — ^methods for examination, p. 4; — utility, 

 147 ; — well equipped, p. 4 ; leakage in numbers, 

 73 ; library, at Bloomsbury remained there, 176 ; 

 — departmental, p. 3, 4 ; — expenses, 93, 94 ; — extent 

 p. 4 ; — new one at Cromwell Road, 177-181 ; — ^not 

 used for examinations, 14 ; Lichens, in course of re- 

 arrangement, p. 4 ; Linnean Society, papers pub- 

 lished by, 121; Lister, A., British Mycetozoa, 35; 

 — Myceiozoa arranged according to his catalogue, p. 

 4 ; — sale of his guide, p. 3 ; loan of specimens not 

 permitted, p. 4 ; London, amalgamaition preferably 

 in 113, 114, 153 ; — no similar exhibition in, 141 ; 

 manuscripts, p. 4 ; microscope slides, number, p. 2 ; 

 — prepared in laboratory, 148 ; microsoopes provided 

 for botanic visitors, 80; cf., Seward, 924; models in 

 gialleries, 138, 139 ; monographers compelled to con- 

 sult the collections, 36 ; monogi-aphs as the basis of 

 arrangement, p. 4 ; mosses, arrangement, p. 4 ; 

 morphologic collections, 132, 143, 147 ; — not promi- 

 nent, 147 ; — plan for continuation, 151 ; — points 

 occasionally worked .at, 146 ; — progress stopped by the 



Director, 133-135 ; regret at same, 137, 151 ; 



morphology, fossils to illustrate, 47 ; Mycetozoa, ar- 

 rangement, p. 4 ; — British, 35 ; — guide to, p. 3 ; 

 named collections, 152 ; naming specimens, main work, 

 33 ; — ^public gallei-y, 131 ; naturalists' clubs assisted 

 iby the staff, 6 ; new species in unnamed collections, 



152 ; cecological collection, 132 ; developed, 136, 



143 ; Oliver, Prof. F. W., no set lecture in the Herbar- 

 ium, 189 ; — special exhibition for, 15 ; opinions written 

 on sheets of herbarium, 154 ; p. 178 ; or- 

 ganised work on a collection, 152 ; palaeo- 

 botanists, consult staff rather collections, 108, 

 109 ; — who have used the collections, 53 ; 

 palaeontological, animal remains better adapted for 

 geologists than plants, 85-87 ; — collections, p. 4 ; 

 — department, 47 ; palms, special size of sheets 

 for, p. 4 ; Paris, disastrous separation of 

 cryptogams and phanerogams, 197 ; — instance 

 of no competition and the result, 156 ; pa- 

 trol, fire, at Cromwell Road, 98 ; plant- 

 adaptations, 12 ; plant-identification, 18-20 ; plant- 

 models m galleries, 138, 139 ; plants, economic, usually 



referred to Kew, 29 ; — ^unarranged, 64 ; available, 



65 ; reduced in bulk, 66 ; shrinkage rapid, 



69, 72 ; popular exhibition of models, 138 ; — instruc- 

 tion, 6, 8 ; post-Linnean collections all in the general 

 herbarium, 43-45 ; pre-Linnean collections, systematic 

 botany largely based on, p. 3 ; — herbaria used in 

 botanic investigation, 40 ; preparing allowance, p. 3 ; 

 — ^no reduction on amalgamation, 104 ; preserva- 

 tive fluids, specimens in, p. 2 ; printing allow- 

 ance for catalogues, p. 3 ; — no economy 

 on amalgamation, 97 ; professors not allowed 

 to lecture in the Herbarium, 188, 190, 192 ; prox- 

 imity of the two herbaria, advantageous, 153 ; public 

 collections for teaching purposes, p. 3 ; publications, 

 p. 3 ; purchase of specimens, p. 3 ; — slight saving on 

 amalgamation, 101 ; pure botany, work confined to, 



Murray, Mr. George Robert Milne, F.R.S. — continued^ 

 29 ; questions submitted for replies, p. 1-2 ; recom- 

 mendations of the Devonshire Commission, some un- 

 workable, 167, 175 ; reconstruction of cryptogamic- 

 herbarium, and effects, p. 3 ; reduction in expense 

 on union, presu>miably none, 88, 97-107 ; removal- 

 from Bloomsbury, p. 3 ; - — effect on ■\T.sitors, 27, 28 ; 

 remuneration of temporary assistant, 51, 52 ; Rendle,. 

 Dr. A. B., help to Sir J. D. Hooker on Indian 

 grasses, 119; reply to Mr. E. M. Holmes's charges,. 

 p. 178 ; — to questions, p. 2-4 ; requisitions from. 

 Government rare, p. 3 ; research, facilities for, 17, 

 79-81 ; — herbarium, an instrument for, 129 ; — if. 

 withdrawn, would be disastrous for science, 82 ; 

 — visits for, could be ascertained, 24-26 ; — work of 

 assistants, 121-123 ; researchers alone can perceive 

 the difference of the two establishments, 163 ; 

 rivalry, 156 ; — effect of none, 156 ; Royal College^ 

 of Science, advantage of British Museum collections- 

 and library being near, 183-185 ; — exhibition for, 

 15; — .no arrangemenit with, 182; — restrictions,. 

 186 ; — special facilities would require sanction of- 

 the Trustees, 195 ; teaching at, 142, 143 ; Saccardo, 

 P. A., fungi arranged according to, p. 4 ; salaries, 



p. 3 ; — no reduction on union, 88, 91 ; ^increase 



during, 99; Saturday afternoon, popular visits, 9:. 

 saving on union doubtful, 88 ; — small, 98, 107, ill -^ 

 schools, regulations, 9; Scott, Dr. D. H., no set lec-- 

 ture in the herbarium, 189 ; — special esliibition for, 

 15; — worked at fossil plants, 53; Scott Elliot, see 

 Elliot, G.F.S. ; sem'.-incorporation, 153; sets of:' 

 plants bought, 62; Seward, Mr. A. C, arranging 

 fossil plants, 47 ; — ^temporary assistance, 51, 52 ; 

 — ^worked on fossil plants, 53; sheets, number, p. . 

 178 ; — sizes, p. 4 ; shelves in cabinets are move- 

 able trays, p. 4 ; sizes of cabinets, difference in, 90,. 



91 ; new requisite for amialgamation, 90, 91 ; 



— of sheets, p. 4 ; slip-catalogue of book-'titles, p. 4 ; 

 — ^Sloane, Sir Hans, his collections, p. 2, 3 ; — fruits, 

 p. 2 ; — incorporation in the general herbarium un- 

 desirable, p. 4; South Kensington, removal to, and 

 its effects, 27, 28 ; Sowerby, J., models of fungi, and. 

 guide, p. 3 ; space available for extension, p. 4 ; 

 special exhibitions, 15 ; specialisation, advance by,. 

 165 ; species, geographic arrangement, p. 4 ; — how 

 represented, 3 ; specimen, defined, p. 178 ; speci- 

 mens, allowance for purchase, p. 3 ; —identification,. 

 124 ; — naming and arranging, 33 ; ■ by com- 

 parison in public gallery, 131 ; — not species, 

 counted, 3 ; — worthless state of some purchased, 72 ; 

 staff, constitution, 4 ; — could not be reduced, 100 ;; 

 — ^eduoational functions, p. 3; — lielp to students,. 

 6-21 ; — interchange of visits, 113, 119, 120 ; state- 

 ment in reply to interrogatories, p. 2-4 ; — put on, 

 2 ; Stephani, F., hepatics arranged according to, p. 

 4 ; stratigraphic geologists do not now use fos.sil 

 plants, 59, 60, 85-87 ; studenits, access to herbarium, 

 129 ; — ^kinds of, 17 ; — ^of Royal College of Science, 

 183-187; — tickets for, 14; — use of collections, p,_ 

 2, 3 ; ■ — visits with their professors, 189, 190, 192 ; 

 study series, all plants identified before incorpora- 

 tion, 124 ; — term defined, 125 ; subsidiary collec- 

 tions, p. 4 ; " Synopsis filicum," ferns arranged by, 

 p. 4 ; " Synopsis hepaticarum," hepatics arranged 

 by, p. 4 ; systemiatic botany, largely biased on pre- 

 Linnean collections, p. 3 ; — character of work, 146 ; 

 — ^collection in public galleries, 130-132 : — series ex- 

 hibited, 8 ; teaching, at the Royal College of Science, 

 142, 143 ; — collections, 8, 11, p. 3 ; — ^herbarium, 

 129 ; temporary assistant, employed, 4, 5 ; — ^for re- 

 ducing unarranged plants, 66 ; Trustees' sanction, 

 51, 52 ; time, chief demand on, 34 ; — ^for popular 

 instruction, 9, 10 ; — on galleries, 11, 12 ; — pro- 

 fessors take up little. 17, 30, 31; — visitors, 17,18; 

 Toynbee Hall students, p. 3 ; tracts in the depart- 

 mental library, p. 4 ; transactions, available from 

 the general library, p. 4 ; transference of fossil 

 plants, 47 ; travellers instructed in collection, p. 3 ; 

 Trustees, consent required in all cases of duplicates, 

 144; — present specimens, 68; — publish Lister's- 

 British Mycetozoa, 35 ; and Seward's Wealden flora, 

 87 ; — transference of fossil plants not yet sanc- 

 tioned by, 48-50 ; trays, number in each cabinet, p. 

 178 ; types, 36 ; — ^added to, 38 ; — enormous number, 

 37 ; —more cryptogams and fewer phanerogams than- 

 Kew, 116 ; — not needed for teaching, 194 ; un- 

 arranged plants, 64 : — available for research, 65 ; 



— reduction in number, 66 ': ^rapid, 69, 72 ; 



union, no economy, 88 ; unique specimens. 116 ; 

 University College, special exhibition, 15 ; — .students- 



