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POPULAR ECONOMIC BOTANY. 



direct attention more fully to the vast importance of this 

 study. Museums of Raw Produce should be formed on 

 a large scale, showing not merely the products themselves, 

 but all their known applications. At present we have only 

 two rudimentary estabKshments of this kind, both too 

 small to be of any great service, though useful in their 

 way : they are the Botanical Museum at Kew, and the Col- 

 lection of Imports at Liverpool, made by the author for the 

 Great Exhibition, and now in the Eree Public Museum of 

 Liverpool. 



