£32 On the Museum of Practical Geology of Great Britain. 



Dicotyledonous. 



Rudbeckia speciosa. 

 Coreopsis bidentoides. 

 Cirsium pumilurn. 

 Nabalus Boottii. 

 Gaylussacia brachycera. 

 Utricularia clandestina. 



" resupinata. 

 Hemianthus micranthemoides. 

 Pycnanthemuin clinopodioides. 



" Torreyi. 

 Asclepias Sullivantii. 



" Meadii. 

 Blitum maritimum. 

 Polygonum Careyi. 

 Ulrnus racemosa. 

 37 species. 



MoNOCOTYLEDONOUS. 



Carex mirata. 



" Grayii. 

 Sporobolus compressus. 



" serotinus. 

 Calamagrostis confinis. 



" Pickeringii. 



" brevipilis. 

 Dupontia Cooleyi. 

 Glyceria acutiflora. 

 Poa alsodes. 



" debilis. 

 Ampbicarpum Purshii. 



34 species r= 71. 

 {To he continued.) 



Aet. XYII. — Letter on the Museum of Practical Geology of Great 

 Britain ; by Sir Koderick I. Murchison.* 



TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLY, &C. &C. 



Having heard that Her Majesty's Government proposes to re- 

 move the Department of Science and Art, at present under the 

 control of the Board of Trade, to the office of the Minister of 

 the Crown who may be charged with the education of the people, 

 I beg to be permitted to place on record a few observations on 

 the effect which such a change may produce upon the establish- 

 ment in Jermyn-Street, as consisting of the Geological Survey 

 of the United Kingdom and its affiliated School of Mines and 

 illustrative Museum. 



Impressed with the great value of the scheme of bringing 

 science and art to bear upon the productive industry of the 

 country, and anxiously desirous, as well as every professor in 

 this establishment, to aid zealously in so good a cause, I have 

 to request that the following statement may be considered as an 

 exposition of the views entertained by my associates and myself. 



I will first recall to your Lordship's notice, briefly, the origin 

 of this establishment and the objects which it was destined to 

 accomplish by the additions which were made to it ; and having 

 shown that all other states, seeking to develop their mineral 



* From a " Copy of Correspondence between the Director-General of the Geolog- 

 ical Survey and the President of the Board of Trade and the Council of Education, 

 relative to annexing a Museum of Practical Geology to the Department of Arts and 

 Sciences." 



