BOTANICAL. SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
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The number of members, amounting to sixty five, of which 
the new members elected for the ensuing session far exceeds 
the expectations of the council, who are at the same time 
happy to state, that they have received but ten notices of se- 
cession of members. 
The council refer with pleasure to the list of donations to 
the Library, Herbarium and Museum, and hope that the se- 
veral donors, and the others members, will not cease either 
their favours or their exertions. 
The names of the various donors to the Library, are as 
follows : — Messrs. Gray, Macreight. Reynolds, Charlesworth, 
J. F. Young, Bossey, MacIntyre, Dennes, Cooper, J. and G. 
Rich, White, Bell, W. Pamplin, Jun., W. Baxter, Hancock, 
Mrs.' Gawler, &c. &c. 
The report of the Curator with respect to the Herbarium 
is as follows : — The names of the various donors are, R. Ley- 
land, Halifax, Yorkshire ; C. Conway, Pontnewydd, Mon- 
mouthshire ; A. Wallis, Chelmsford, Essex ; W. Baxter, Bo- 
tanic Garden, Oxford ; W. Gardiner, Dundee ; Dr. Bell 
Salter, Poole, Dorsetshire ; Dr. Ranking, Hastings ; Miss 
Perry, Stroud, near Godaiming, Surrey ; — and the following, 
residing in London ; Messrs. J. F. Young; D. Cooper; G. E. 
Dennes ; W. M. Chatterley ; M. Hopkins ; J. and G. Rich ; 
W. H. White; W. A. Lewis; R. Davis; Dr. D. C. Ma- 
creight ; Mrs. Gawler ; Mrs. Dennison, &c. — To these ladies 
and gentlemen the Society is indebted for several valuable 
presents of British and Foreign collections of dried plants. 
The number of British plants received amount to 4819 spe- 
cimens, including Ferns; 767 species, including 1313 speci- 
mens, have been arranged in the Herbarium, according to 
the system of Decandolle. The remaining 3506 duplicates, 
including 515 species, will be distributed to those persons 
who have favoured the Curator with lists of desiderata for 
that purpose. 
The distribution will take place under the direction of the 
council in the months of December and January every year, 
when each member will receive such of his desiderata as may 
be contained among the duplicates in the Herbarium, in pro- 
portion to his contributions. Those gentlemen who have not 
contributed to the Herbarium, receiving their duplicates 
after the distribution of the contributors has taken place. 
The council beg also to inform the members, that in order to 
afford every facility for examining the Herbarium and Li- 
brary, the Rooms of the Society will be open one hour and a 
