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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 121.] JANUARY. [1897. 
DXLI.—LIST OF KEW PUBLICATIONS, 1841-95. 
The Royal Gardens, Kew, have been from their first devotion to 
publie use the most important seat of botanical research in the United 
Kingdom. Sir William Hooker, the new Director of the reorganised 
establishment, brought with him from the University of Glasgow not 
merely his herbarium and li rary, for the reception of which West 
Park was — for him by the Government, but an indefatigable assiduity 
n the pursuit of science and a world-wide correspondence with every 
nder irection K 
took the position of a botanical institution of the first rank. The 
impulse which it received from him has gathered stren h with sue- 
ceeding years, and its activity batts little likely to diminish under the 
demands made upon it from every part of the Empire. 
1852 the Hookerian Herbarium was removed to the present 
ST In 1854 George Bentham, Esq., F.R.S., added to it his own 
herbarium and library. In 1858 the East India Company transferred 
to Kew the enormous collections made by their officers, which had 
accumulated at the India House. In 1867, after the death of Sir 
William Hooker, the Government purchased his library and herbarium, - 
became 
up for the library. 
In 1863 Sir William Hooker projected a series of Mord o iv uniform 
- and in the English language for Indis and the Colonies. The 
ork has been steadily kept in hand ever since, and the bulk of it has 
Sons accomplished at Kew, though not in all cases by members of 
the staff. Of those works the most important are the * Flora Austra- 
liensis,"" commenced by Mr. Bentham in 1863 and completed in 1878, 
and 5E i i 
