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BOTANICAL INDEX. 
Government Botanical Gardens, and do not make a business of collecting plants, but 
they give volumes of information, each year, of inestimable value. Others are trav- 
eling as missionaries, commercial agents, &c., and make botany onlj r a secondary 
study, but it is none the less valuable. 
Botanists anil Travelers collecting on their own account, ( not in North America,) during 187ft. 
NAME OF COLLECTORS. LOCALITY COLLECTING. 
Dr. Wm. Schimpfer Abyssinia. 
Sir. Richard Schomburgk, Baron Ferdinand 
Von Mueller, Henry Farcell, Alexander For- 
rest, Dr. Neidman, Charles Moore Australia. 
E. S. Rand Brazil. 
M. Endres aiid M. Zalm Central America. 
J. M. Hilderbrandt Madagascar. 
Herr Benedict RoezI Mexico. 
James Dali New Zealand. 
Mr. Pierce Peru, South America. 
Dr. Crevaux, (in French Guinea,) U. S. of South America. 
Rev. Mr. Chalmers, Rev. Mr. Macfarlane, Mr. 
Goldie New Guinea. 
Mr. G. Maxwell King George’s Sound. 
Gustav Wallis New Grenada. 
Mr. Kramer and Louis Boehmer Japan. 
We also add a list of collectors, employed by a few of the large commercial estab- 
lishments of England. But the list is not complete, because each collector always 
employs from one to three assistants, while in the list only one is given. Again, in 
all the portions of the world little known to Europeans, are a numerous class of 
plant lovers, army oliicers, &c., who are so much pleased with the vegetable won- 
ders in their vicinity, that they open up a correspondence with some of the famous 
plant dealers, and, as a result, become plant collectors; these we have designated in 
the following table as l. c. (local collectors and correspondents.) 
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Australia andNew Guinea... 
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Cape op Good Hope 
Central America 
East Indies 
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New Zealand 
South America 
U. S. op South America 
West Indies 
2 
L. c. 
1 
L. C. 
B. S. Williams 
William Bull 
1 
L. C. 
L. C. 
L. C. 
L. C. 
L. C. 
1 
L. C. 
1 
L. C. 
James Veitch & Sons 
It would be a pleasure to notice the addition to our botanical knowledge in the 
way of new Books, but space will not permit, and we will only say, the year has been 
productive of some most valuable standard botanical works, in addition to our feast 
of popular and scientific magazines and journals. 
We cannot close this article without a short notice of the inroads made by Death 
upon the ranks of those who had enrolled themselves under the banner of Flora. 
Commencing with our own country, we find the names of those enthusiastic Horti- 
culturists: George Cruikshanks, of Mass., JE. 79; Silas Moore, of Rhode Island; 
