ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
SULLEN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
Nos. 157-168. 1900. 
I.—BOTANICAL MUSEUMS IN FRANCE. 
During the Autumn of 1897, Mr. J. M. Hillier, Assistant in the 
Museums of the Royal Botanic Gardens, was instructed to visit 
the principal botanical museums in Belgium and Holland, with the 
view of noting deficiences in the Kew Museums and of observing © 
the general arrangements of the collections and the methods 
adopted in mounting and preserving museum objects [Kew 
Bulletin, April and May, 1898]. Asa result of this visit, many 
interesting and valuable products have been obtained and added 
to the museums, and useful hints gathered on practical museum 
Work. In view of the efforts made by Kew in developing the 
natural resources of our W. African possessions, and of French 
enterprise in that portion of the African Continent, Mr. Hillier 
was further instructed, in July of 1899, to proceed to France, for 
the purpose of studying, more particularly, the vegetable products 
of French Colonial possessions in a few of the more important 
museum collections. The Museum of the French Colonies in 
Marseilles, in particular, has afforded much desirable information. 
The following report has been furnished by Mr. Hillier. 
JARDIN DES PLANTES, ROUEN. 
The gardens are situated on the outskirts of the city. The 
plants are classified according to the system of A. Brongniart, and 
are for the use of the School of Botany, at Rouen. There is no 
museum connected with the gardens. 
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, ROUEN. 
, This collection is in a new building, which, at the time of my 
visit, was not yet opened to the public, as the specimens were in 
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