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OF HERBARIA. 
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cially to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, 
and to the Commissioners for the Affairs of India, that this 
great public principle has been recognised; and I trust the 
day is not distant when the. trustees of the British Museum 
will order it to be acted upon, both in spirit and in letter, by 
the officers in charge of the public property in that national 
institution. 
