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easily command the specimens in tlie tliree collections in the 
prosecution of his investigations. ISTor is the facility of reference 
confined to the mounted and finally arranged specimens, for the 
method in which the unmounted collections are arranged and 
temporarily stored in small rooms behind the great Herbarium 
provides for their ready consultation, even though they may not 
yet be incorporated in the Herbarium itself. 
The student receives assistance in his investigations from the I'ibrary, 
extensive Library of the Department, and from a large collection 
of plates and drawings of plants systematically arranged in the 
same order as the plants in the Herbarium. 
The collection of original drawings comprises specimens of Original 
the work of the principal botanical artists, such as Kamel, pia^Jts^and^ 
Ehret, J. Miller, ISTodder, Aubriet, Sidney Parkinson, J. E. & G. Manuscripts, 
Forster, Jacquin, Masson, Sowerby, Salisbury, Schomburghk, 
Fitch, Schleiden, W. G. Smith, and especially Francis and 
Ferdinand Bauer ; and a large collection of drawings of Chinese 
and Indian plants. 
The department possesses also many valuable manuscripts, 
such as those of Eobert Brown, Solander, Euiz and Pavon, 
Konig, Salisbury, and Miers, referring to plants now in the 
Herbarium on which these botanists have worked. 
The cellular plants are accommodated in a large room in the Cellular 
Central Tower approached by a staircase, the entrance to which 
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 Algae contain the herbarium of 
Prof. Dickie, the Diatomaceae of Kiitzing 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. 
