24 TRANSACTIONS LIVEEPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



outhouses ; whilst on the south east corner are the huts 

 of the native workmen. 



The system of arrangement adopted in the garden is 

 that of the Genera Plantarum of Bentham and Hooker, 

 replacing that of Endlicher which was the system used 

 when Teijsmann had the direction of the garden. Related 

 families of plants are placed together in the garden, so 

 that the system is a strictly natural one, although of course 

 climbers, marsh plants, and such as shew peculiar habits 

 are collected together in special regions, where their 

 physiological characteristics may be better exhibited than 

 by scattering them all over the garden in proximity to 

 their various relations. The garden contains in all about 

 9000 species. I wished that time availed for me to give you 

 even the faintest idea of the contents of this magnificent 

 garden. I must leave you to imagine it from the photo- 

 graphs taken from the published account of the garden I 

 have already referred to. Dr. Burck's most admirable 

 account of the treasures of the garden described in a series 

 of imaginary walks through the ground must be read in 

 detail if any adequate conception is to be obtained of 

 this the grandest botanical garden of the tropics. 



The Museum originally built in 1859 to accommodate 

 a collection of minerals illustrative of the mining 

 districts in the Colony came into the hands of the garden 

 officials in 1871. The present museum consists of a 

 vestibule and large hall, round which runs a gallery and 

 off which lead passages to various smaller rooms serving 

 as library, keepers'-rooms, work-rooms, store-rooms and a 

 small laboratory. The gallery is occupied by the herbarium 

 preserved in 1200 wooden cases arranged on shelves, and 

 includes collections made by Zollinger in the Celebes, Java 

 .and Lombock, by Teijsmann in his numerous excursions 

 throughout the Archipelago, more especially in New 



