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DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 
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pended. Sections of these woods exhibit the transverse as well as the 
vertical structure. Section C 2 commences with a set of Woods, 
chiefly from New Holland and New Zealand, obtained from the Model 
Room of the Board of Admiralty at Somerset House, and ends with 
specimens, in longitudinal and transverse sections, of the woods used 
in the construction of the carriages on the North-Western line of rail- 
way. A set of Woods of British Guiana, arranged for the most part 
alphabetically, according to the native names, occupies the whole of 
the division C 3, and a part of C 4 ; and these are followed, in the 
latter division, by specimens of a set of Woods from New Holland, 
Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand, imported in the ship Drome- 
dary, in 1821 ; by specimens of a set of Timber Trees of Van Diemen's 
Land ; by specimens of a few Chilian Woods ; and by a set of four- 
and-twenty Woods of the East Indies, including most of those in 
common use for ship-building and other purposes of construction. 
The opposite Table, D, is chiefly occupied by an extensive series of 
Cabinet- Woods, including nearly all of those which are more or less 
frequently employed by the London cabinet-makers, and arranged 
alphabetically, according to the names by which they are ordinarily 
known in the trade. These specimens fill nearly the whole of Divisions 
D 1, D 2, D 3 ; and the remaining division of the Table, D 4, is 
devoted to specimens of the principal varieties of Coniferous Wood, 
or Deals, in common use. 
The middle Table on the northern side of the room, lettered E, 
commences with a series of W t oods of New Holland and Van Die- 
men's Land ; Division E 1 being entirely occupied by Woods of the Myr- 
tle Tribe, the most conspicuous of which belong to the genus Euca- 
lyptus, and are mostly distinguished by their native names. Division 
E 2 contains other Woods of Australia, together with a few from New 
Zealand. The divisions lettered E 3 and E 4 contain a series of 
Woods from Southern Africa, alphabetically arranged, according to 
the names given by the Dutch colonists. E 5 is filled with Miscel- 
laneous specimens of Woods from various quarters, among which are 
sections of a remarkable wood from the Moluccas, sent under the 
name of Nutmeg-wood, but probably belonging to the family of 
MEN'isPERMEiE, of a tree, probably Leguminous, from Santa Elena, in 
the Republic of Ecuador, thickly coated with a yellow resinous secre- 
tion, the branched stem of a species of Geranium from S. Africa 
(Monsonia Heritieri) almost wholly converted into a smooth gummy 
substance ; together with sections of Mahogany (Swietenia Mahogani, 
L.), Bread-Fruit (Artocarpus incisa, L. Jil.), of various species of 
Ebony, and of the Til (Laurus fojjtens, Sol.) of Madeira, a wood 
the intense foetor of which is apparently undiminished after more than 
a century's preservation in the Sloanean Collection. E 6 is filled 
with Proteaceous Woods, and with the Woods, in many respects 
similar, of several species of the genus Casuarina. 
The last Table, lettered F, contains a series of specimens of the 
ponus Banksia, together with a few of the nearly related genus 
Dryandra. The former are geographically arranged, according as they 
