38 
BOTANICAL INDEX. 
ANNUAL REVIEW OF BOTANICAL PROGRESS. 
[Continued from Page G.] 
When we first resolved to publish an article on an “Annual Review of Botanical 
Progress,” we set about the task of procuring information on the number of collec- 
tors so employed, ;uid, although the time was then short, we have succeeded very 
well, and now having received additional information on the subject since the first 
pages were published, we will reprint the table from page 0 together with the addi- 
tional reports. 
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NO 
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erf 2, 
E. Np 
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i 
1 
3 
4 
8. Brazil 
1 
1 
1 
4. Central America 
i 
S. L. C. 
i 
1 
4 
3 
(). China 
i 
1 
1 
1 
9. Mexico 
9 
2 
1 
2 
10. New Guinea 
8 
3 
1 
1 
1 
i i 
12. Northern Africa ' 
2 
S. Jj. c. 
1 
8 
2 
14. Pacific Islands 
20 
] 
i 
9 
16. .South America, except No. S and 20 
>. 1.. ( . 
L. C. 
5 
! " i 
2 L. C. 
9 
3 
] 
4 1 
2 
8 
9 
1 
20. U. S. of South America 
3 
1 
1 
i 
22. West Indies 
S. I,, c. 
1 
This table is made up from the official reports of some of the largest commercial 
plant establishments of Europe for 1879, and conveys a good idea of the magnitude 
of the enterprise. Of course the tables are far from complete yet, but we hope next 
year to be more successful, especially, as we shall endeavor to commence in season, 
and also hope to convince our friends that we do not wish to pry into their business for 
personal motives by the information we ask, but simply wish to illustrate the fact, that 
the efforts of botanists will prove a blessing, from the benefits sure to follow a more 
extended knowledge of the world. It is not in the money value alone that these 
travelers and collectors bring to tin; firms employing them that the world is enrich- 
ed, but each year they collect commercial and geographical facts of almost inestima- 
ble value to the whole civilized world. To illustrate this point more clearly, we will 
venture to publish an extract from a priv ate letter from B. S. Williams, one of the 
famous new plant merchants of London, England. Mr. Williams writes: “My col- 
lector and his assistants have been in New Guinea for three years in search of Or- 
chis, new plants, etc., and, while there, discovered gold for t lie first time, and made 
some explorations and discovered new islands and harbors on the south-east coast of 
New Guinea, which has been sanctioned and adopted by the Admiralty ; these explo- 
rations were made in a schooner which I purchased for collecting on the coast.” An 
extract from Mr. Joseph Allen's letter (page 27) will also serve to increase our admi- 
ration for these men. Perhaps we should also say that E. G. Henderson & Sons are 
among the largest and oldest new plant houses in London, but in their letter they 
only gave the number of skilled or professional botanists they employ as collectors 
and sent out to collect for themselves, while the number of local collectors was not 
given, which would have increased their actual numbers to at least twenty-five men. 
