66 J. H. MAIDEN. 



In a New South Wales museum, the first prominence 

 should be given to plants of this State, but the plants of 

 other parts of Australia and other parts of the world come 

 only second to these. 



A botanical museum should be arranged according to a 

 botanical classification, not like the vegetable contents of 

 a technological museum, which are grouped according to 

 their uses, e.g., the timbers together, the fibres together, 

 and so on. 



Nor should such a museum confine itself to taxonomy ; 

 it would confer untold advantage on botanical students 

 if, by means of models, diagrams and actual specimens, 

 morphology (including anatomy), and physiology were well 

 represented. Special attention should be given to terato- 

 logical specimens ; indeed, I have been accumulating such 

 for many years past. And when one contemplates the 

 resources of the Botanic Gardens, it seems the greatest of 

 pities that specimens, culled from its treasures, cannot be 

 systematically collected, placed in a suitable museum, and 

 labelled as to name, and to indicate the lessons they are 

 able to teach. Such a museum should be richly supplied 

 with pictorial illustrations, in natural colours wherever 

 possible. The public like pictures, and well executed 

 drawings of plants are always in flower, always in fruit. 



It is not possible to separate the botanical museum from 

 the herbarium, for the former forms an integral portion of 

 the latter. It contains succulent and bulky fruits, gums 

 and resins, pieces of timber, etc., which cannot be placed 

 in their proper order in the herbarium, for physical reasons 

 solely. It also includes certain models, pieces of apparatus, 

 portraits of botanists, botanical scenes, etc., which could 

 not, even if their bulk did not stand in the way, fittingly 

 find so convenient a place in the herbarium. 



