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been for years, the use of them during his lifetime. Mr. Brown 
transferred them to the Trustees of the Museum in 1827, and 
was appointed the first Keeper of the Department. The yearly 
additions since 1827 have been so extensive that the Banksiau 
Collections form now but a small proportion of the great 
Herbarium. In a brief notice it is impossible to give a correct 
idea of the richness of this Herbarium. Among the principal 
collections contained in it may be mentioned those of Clayton, 
Eoemer, Miller, Brown, Bowie and Cunningham, Gardner, 
Nuttall, Horsfield, Konig, Martin, Masson, Wilson, Hampe, 
Seemann, Welwitsch, Salt, and Miers. It includes also authentic 
specimens received from Loureiro, Gronovius, Tournefort, 
Jacquin, Aublet, Euiz and Pa von, and Perrottet. 
The cellular plants are accommodated in a large room in the Cellular 
Central Tower approached by a staircase, the entrance to which ^^^^ts. 
is on the left side of the statue of Sir Joseph Banks. The 
Mosses include the collections of Wilson, Hampe, Drummond 
and Spruce ; the Liverworts contain the herbarium of Hampe ; 
with the Lichens are incorporated collections made by Carroll, 
Spruce and Weddell. The Algse contain the herbarium of 
Prof. Dickie, the Diatomacese of Kutzing and Greville, and 
collections from Harvey, Eobert Brown, Shuttleworth, &c. The 
extensive series of. Fungi, including collections from various 
botanists, has been increased by the bequest of the valuable 
herbarium of the late Mr. C. E. Broome. 
There is a separate Herbarium of British plants, based on the Herbarium of 
collections formed by Sowerby in the preparation of his great p[anu 
work, 'English Botany.' This is, perhaps, the largest and 
most interesting public Herbarium of British plants, and its 
value is constantly increasing by additions from botanists who 
make the British Flora their special study. 
The extensive Herbarium formed by Sir Hans Sloane became sioane's 
the property of the nation in 1753, along with his other coUec- 
tions. The plants gathered by himself in Jamaica formed the 
nucleus of this Herbarium, and to them were added the collections 
of Petiver, Buddie, Plukenet, Kaempfer, Kamel, Merrett, Boer- 
haave, Vaillant, Banister, and others. According to the practice 
of the time these plants are preserved in large folio volumes, of 
which there are altogether 310. This collection had been placed 
