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PREFACE. 



With reference to this subject, the Council have to observe 

 that the second of the regulations printed at the commence- 

 ment of the last volume, has since been rescinded, and that 

 all the Fellows of the Society have now the privilege of 

 applying for plants and cuttings ; and when visiting the 

 Garden they may receive such as are in sufficient abundance 

 to be so distributed ; the Garden being open from nine in 

 the morning, daily, until six in summer, and until sunset in 

 winter. 



The Library of the Society at their house in Regent-street, 

 has continued to receive additions by purchase as well as by 

 donations. The models of fruits, the herbaria, and other 

 scientific collections have been transferred to the Garden, 

 where it is proposed to arrange them in such a manner as 

 to render them of easy access, and to answer as fully as 

 possible the purposes for which they were intended. 



With the present volume, it is designed to close the first 

 Series of these Transactions, but, their extensive circulation 

 having proved that they have generally met with the appro- 

 bation of the Public in their present form, it is not intended in 

 commencing a new series to make any material alteration 

 either in the style in which the plates are prepared, or in the 

 typographical execution of the letter press. 



Regent-street, 

 December 27, 1830. 



