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DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. [UPPER FLOOR. 
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 ordinaril}'' 
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 Woods 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 Mahogany (Swietenia Mahogani, L.), Bread-Fruit (Arto- 
carpus incisa, L. Jil.\ of various species of Ebony, and of the Til 
f Laurus fcetens, Sol) of Madeira, a wood the intense fcetor of which 
is apparently undiminished after more than a century's preservation in 
the Sloanean Collection. E 6 is filled with Proteageous Woods, and 
witli 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 
genus Banksta, together with a few of the nearly related genus 
Dryandra. The former are geographically arranged, according as they 
are derived from the east coast of New Holland, the north, or the west 
coast. The latter are wholly from the west. 
JOHN JOSEPH BENNETT. 
