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Tidal y Soler, Don S., work at Kew, Dyer, p. 82. 



"Vienna, application for information, p. 161 ; no dupli- 

 cate collections there, Carruthers, p. 135 ; report on, 

 p. 161, 162. 



Yiaitors caLered for, Lankester, 1174 ; — to Botanical 

 Department, p. 114, Murray, 21-28, p. 3 ; — to Kew 

 Dyer, p. 59 ; herbarium, Dyer, p. 65. 



Vi&i*^^3 of staffs interchangetl, Murray, 113, 119, 120. 



Voelokor, Dr. A., report on Indian agriculture, Dyer, 

 p. 77-78. 



Voight, Dr. A., at Kew, Dyer, p. 66. 



Volumes, m the Botanical Department, Murray, p. 4 ; 

 — Kew, Dyer, p. 58. 



Tote, how expended. Dyer, 1313-1315. 

 Voyages, accessions from, Paris, p. 168. 



W. 



Wall-cases in museums, Dyer, p. 58. 



Wallioh, Dr. N., ooHeations desiaiable, Dyer, 1338; 

 herbarium mentioned, Carruthers, p. 137 ; his num- 

 bers, Clarke, 314. 



Ward, Prof. H. M., at Kew, Dyer, p. 65. 



Water, supply in case of fire. Dyer, p. 96, 97 ; Hiern, 

 961. 



Waterhouse, George Robert, evidence, 1860, p. 124 ; 

 — cited, p. 125 ; Carrutliers, p. 134 ; Keeper of the 

 Geological Department, Woodward, 1061. 



Watson, H. C, British herbarium at Kew, Dyer, p. 95 ; 

 — not suited for study, Hanhury, 506 ; numbers, 

 Clarke, 314. 



Watt, Dr. G., Dictionary of Economic Products, Dyer, 

 p. 76. 



"Wax models, Paris, p. 166. 



Wealden plants studied, Seward, 891 ; — catalogue of, 

 Murray, 87, 109 ; Seward, 939 ; Woodduard, 1079. 



Weeding out, requisite training for. Dyer, 1287. 



"Weiss, Prof., work in Geological Department, Wood- 

 ward, 1066. 



Welby, Rt. Hon. Reginald Earle, 1st Baron, quoted, 

 Dyer, p. 57. 



W'elwitsch, F. M. J., collections at the British Museum, 

 Holmes, 375, 397, 407 ; visitor to the Botanical De- 

 partment, Carruthers, p. 134. 



"West African plants, Hiern, 950. 



West Indies, botanic stations, Dyer, p. 76, 79 ; col- 

 lections from. Dyer, p. 85 ; flora of. Dyer, p. 65. 



Westminster Medical School, witnesis formerly taught 

 at. Holmes, 467. 



Wheat, Bauer's drawings of, p. 116. 

 Wilford, C, collections, Dyer, p. 85. 

 WTilliam IIL, manuscripts, p. 111. 



Williams, P. iST., at Kew, Dyer, p. 65. 



Williamson, Prof. W. C, collection of fossil plants. 

 Dyer, p. 95 ; — consists of microscope slides, Wood- 

 ward, 1063 ; how acquired, Woodward, 1090, 1091 ; 

 palaeozoic plants in, Seward, 924 ; purchase for the 

 British Mhiseum, Murray, W ; reasons why not 

 bought for Kew, Woodward, 1068 ; work in the Geo- 

 logical Department, Woodward, 1066t 



Willis, J. C, at Kew, Dyer, p. 65. 



Willows, critical botanist wanted for, Hanhury, 509. 



Wilson; Mr., assisted Dr. Lindley in surveying Kew, 

 p. 112. 



Wolley-Dod, Major A. H., at Kew, Dyer, p. 65. 



Wood specimens should be left for comparison with 

 fossils, Woodward, 1077. 



Woodrow, G. M., at Kew, Dyer, p. 65. 



Woods, collections, at the British Museum, Dyer, p. 

 82 ; Murray, p. 2, 4 ; Woodward, 1077 ; at Brussels, 

 p. 164 ; at Kew, Dyer, v. 58. 85 ; at Paris, p. 167 ; 

 at St. Petersburg, p. 165 ; at Vienna, p. 16Z. 



3499. 



Woods, Forests, Land Revenues and Buildings, man- 

 agement of Kew transferred to that department in 

 1841, p. 113. 



Woodward, Dr. Henry, F.R.S., assistant, 1858-80 ; aud 

 keeper from 1880 of Geological Department, British 

 Museum, 1062 ; balances, unexpended, not now re- 

 turned to the Treasury, 1092 ; biological aspect of 

 palaeontology, 1075 ; Birkbeck Institution, students 

 from 1096 ; books on botany, duplicates should be 

 left, 1076 ; — on palaeobotany, a large collection, 

 1093 ; not the siame in the Botanical Depart- 

 ment which is confined to recent plants, 1094 ; bor- 

 rowed, term as used in the British Museum, 1082, 

 1083 ; botanical arrangement in the Depai-tmenit, 

 1065 ; — assistance from outside, 1079 ; Seward, 881 ; 



Department advanced part purchase money for 



Williamson collection, 1090 ; botanists who have 

 used the collections of fossil plants, 1066 ; Urown, 

 Robert, collection of fossil plants, 1063, 1084 ; car- 

 boniferous plants, catalogue of, 1079 ; catalogues of 

 parts of the Geological Department, 1079 ; coal plants 

 given by MoMurtrie, 1096 ; collection of illustrative 

 plants might be left, 1069 ; collections transferred 

 interdepartmentally, 1083 ; Devonian sharks, 1103 ; 

 dismemiberment of Department by transference of 

 fossil plants to Kew, 1068, 1074 ; distribution in geo. 

 logic time important on palaeobotany, 1067 ; dupli- 

 cates, books on botany should be left, 10V6 ; 

 elementary collection would be insufficient, 

 1073, 1074 ; evidence, 1059-1103 ; formations charac- 

 terised by certain peculiar forms of life, 1102 ; 

 fossil plants. Brown collection, 1063, 1084 ; — - 

 general collection is large, 1062 ; — ^Hooker collec- 

 tion, 1063, 1084 ; —history, from 1815, 1061, 

 1062 ; — if transferred to Kew, would be the 

 dismemberment of the Department, 1067 ; — micro- 

 scope slides in, 1053, 1064 ; — specialist refused, 

 1079 ; — specimens in Museum at Jermyn Street, 

 1101 ; ■ — ^transference from Botanical Department of 

 Brown's and Hooker's collections, 1063 ; — — now 

 entierly under his charge, 1054, 1081, 1084-1086 ; 

 — Williamson collection, 1064 ; — — all microscope 



slides on glass, 1063 ; how acquired, 1090, 1091 ; 



^why refused by Kew, 1068 ; geological collection 



absent from the British Museum, 1065 ; — research 

 difficult to discriminate from botanical, 1065 ; her- 

 barium used for comparison of recent and fossil 

 plants, 10S7-1089; Hooker, J. D., collection, 1063, 

 1084 ; Jermyn Street, Museum of Practical Geology, 



in, a stratigraphical collection, 1099 ; ^only of 



British specimens, 1100 ; — fossil plants in, 1101 ; 

 Judd, Prof. J. W., students from, 1096 ; keeper of 

 the Geological Department since 1880, 1059, 1062; 

 labels not popularised, 1096 ; McMurtrie, collection 

 'of coal plants, 1096 ; Museum of Practical Geology, 

 Jermyn Street, arranged stratigraphioally, 1065 ; 

 fossil plants in, 1101 ; — geologists usually go thither, 

 1099, 1100 ; — only British, 1100 ; microscope slides 

 in Department; 1063, 1064 ; oolitic shale plants, 

 errors in interpretation of, 1087 ; palaeobotanic as- 

 sistant to Department refused, reasons given, 1079 ; 

 — collection never supposed would be transferred e)lse- 



where, 1074 ; ^of books, large, 1093 ; ibut 



not the same as in Botanical Department, which is 

 entirely concerned with recent plants, 1094 ; palse- 

 ont'ology a more correct term than geology for the 

 Department, 1065 ; popularisation of labels not .at- 

 tempted, 1096 ; purchase of Wiiliarnson collection, 

 1090 ; Riadstock coalfield, fossil plants from, 1096 ; 

 reference collection would not satisfy scientific 

 worikers, 1069-1073 ; — herbarium would be useful to 

 situdents, 1077 ; Royal College of Science, students, 

 1096 ; Searles Wood coilection, 1083 ; shale, fossil 

 IDlants in, 1087 ; sharks from Devonian times, 1103 ; 

 specimens exhibited in galleries, 1095 ; stratigraphi- 

 cal collection absent from the British Museum, 



1065 ; present at Jermyn Street Museum, 1099, 



1100 ; — not an important aspect at Cromwell Road, 

 1103 ; student's collection in Geologidal Department 

 arranged stratigraphioally, 1095 ; — a limited number 

 of fossil plants in it, 1096 ; — provision for, 1095 ; 

 transference of botanical collections would be a great 

 loss to palseobotaniists, 1076 ; Treasury, and unex- 

 pended balances, 1092 ; type herbarium more satis- 

 factory than a reference herbarium, 1088, 1089 ; 

 Wealden plant catalogue, 10'79 ; Williamson col- 

 lection, 1064 ; — consists of slides on glass, 1063 ; — 

 its acquisition, 1090, 1091 ; — reason of refusal by 

 Kew, 1068 ; woods, recent, a set required for com- 

 parison with fossil woods, 1077 ; world-wide fossils in 

 the Department, 1100 ; zoological arrangement pre- 

 valent in the Geological Department, 1065. 



