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the several advantages of my position. Among these, I 
would particularly mention the easy accessibility to col- 
leagues, willing and able to aid with their advice and assist- 
ance ; as well as to varied and increasing Libraries and 
Museums, Collections of Diagrams and Drawings, and also 
to a Laboratory and Herbarium ; to these, I hope, my 
own Herbarium and Collection of Materia Medica will be no 
useless addition for the purposes of illustration. But, as 
first in value, and sufficiently so to be ranked by itself, 
I would mention the munificent donation of a Museum of 
Materia Medica, which I understand is to be a counterpart 
of their own, by the Society of Apothecaries.* Words are 
inadequate for expressing the value to us of such a gift : 
but as a Botanist, I cannot but feel pleased that it should 
have come from a Body, who have for two centuries 
patronised my favourite study. As Member of an Insti- 
tution, called into existence by the exigencies of modern 
times, I hardly know how sufficiently to appreciate the 
patronage of those, who have so long and so successfully 
laboured for the improvement of the general members of 
the profession, on the only sure basis, that of extended 
and efficient education. I trust we may take this as an 
omen of King's College being so considered, because it 
offers to youth of every calling, opportunities of laying 
deep the foundations of Literature in conjunction with 
Religion, and on a basement of Mathematical and Physical 
Science, raising a Professional superstructure, which will 
be as creditable to themselves as beneficial to the public. 
In conclusion, I have to request your attention to a 
* This collection has been received since this Lecture was delivered, 
and is deposited, with a set for the use of Students, in one Museum, with 
the Collections of Botany, Mineralogy, and Geology. The other Museum 
alluded to, contains the Collections of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, 
in connexion with those of Human and Morbid Anatomy. 
