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valuable collection of aon-luiropcan plants pri'scuitcd to the University in 
1904 by Mr Cosmo Mclvill when he retired from business, places Manclu'ster 
University ainonf( the foremost of British institutions in rc-spi-ct of this 
necessary instrument of botanical study and research. 
In a communication which Mr Charles Bailey made last 'I'uesday to 
the Manchester Literary and Philosoiihical Society, he mentions that the 
foundations of his herbarium were ‘ laid more than sixty years ago, in the 
dingy lecture-room of the late Professor W. C. Williamson, in the old Owen’s 
College in Quay Street, and it is fitting that it should revert to the Uni\-ersity 
of which Owen’s College was the forerunner.’ It is ecpially appropriate that 
the vast collection which has been brought together by the enterjirise and 
assiduity of a Manchester business man should permanently enrich the city 
of which he was a prominent and active citizen. His long and intimate 
connection with the scientific interests of Manchester, both as treasurer of 
the Literary and Philosophical Society and as president of the IManchester 
Field Club, and the charm of his personality have endeared him to a long line 
of botanical students, and this last generous gift to the University of Man- 
chester is a fitting climax to a lifetime in which he devoted so much thought 
and all his wonderful methodical energy to the building up of what is at present 
undoubtedly the finest private herbarium in Britain. 
“ The comprehensiveness of his collection may be gathered from the 
fact that the British portion contains no less than 87,000 separate sheets of 
mounted plants, while the European portion amounts to 295,000 sheets. 
jMr Bailey has made generous provision for the cost of transference of his 
herbarium to Manchester, and also towards the expenses of completing the 
mounting Of the specimens, so that it may be available for study and reference. 
“ The Committee of the Manchester Museum and the Council of the 
University have expressed their thanks to Mr Bailey for his most generous 
gift, and their appreciation of the great value which the herbarium will he 
to all students of botany. Some of 'Hiose chai'ged with teaching such students 
feel themselves unable adequately to expre.ss their thanks for the great ser- 
vices which Air Bailey is rendci'ing to botanical science in Manchester by 
his munificent gift.” 
Air Bailey's communication to the Alanchester Literary and Philo- 
sophical Society has been published in its Memoirs and Proceedings (Vol. 61, 
part IL), where the formation, methods adopted, and extent of the collec- 
tion, are given in detail, and present some idea of the enormous labour which 
has been bestowed upon it. Air Bailey is also presenting his library of piinted 
books, of which the botanical section forms a valuable part. 
Before leaving Hay mesgarth. Air J. II. Jones thanked Air and Airs Bailey 
for their hospitality, and referred to the magnificent gift made to Alanchester. 
He also thanked Air Gray and Dr Garrett for the trouble they had taken to 
make the day's proceedings so thoroughly interesting. 
