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West Park and Kew, 1841-1865. 
skill in preparing and mounting the latter for exhibition 1 . 
His bust in marble (the gift of his sister) and that of the 
Director (the gift of Henry Christy, Esq.), both by Woolner, 
stand in the entrance hall of the new building, where are also, 
hung on the walls and projecting ends of the cases, a collection 
of nearly one hundred framed portraits of botanists 2 , then the 
property of the Director. The third Museum (No. Ill of 
Guide-book), opened in 1863, originated in the timely con- 
version to this purpose of the Orangery, the oldest building in 
the establishment, 145 feet long in the interior. Timely 
it was in two senses ; for the Orangery had hitherto been the 
main receptacle for such trees of Australia and New Zealand 
as had outgrown the old New Holland House, and in this 
very year the Temperate House was ready for their recep- 
tion ; also in 18 63 my father had, thanks to the Secretary 
of State for the Colonies, the Duke of Newcastle (his first chief 
when Lord Lincoln), and to the Governors of several of the 
colonies themselves, acquired for Kew almost the whole of 
the vegetable products exhibited in the International Ex- 
hibition of that year, the East Indies being the chief exception. 
The colonies were, West Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, 
Natal, Mauritius, St. Helena, West Australia, New South 
Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland, Canada, New Bruns- 
wick, Vancouver’s Island, British Columbia, Ceylon, Trinidad, 
the Bahamas, Dominica ; together with these were exhibits from 
the Ionian Islands, Austria, Russia, and miscellaneous articles 
from other countries. Conspicuous amongst these acquisitions 
was the collection of colonial timbers, many as slabs of large 
1 Nor should the services on these occasions of the keeper for ten years of both 
Museums be forgotten — Mr. Alexander Smith (son of the Curator of the Botanical 
Gardens), who had acquired a remarkable knowledge of vegetable products. 
Owing to his health breaking down he was obliged to retire in 1858. He died at 
Kew in 1864. He was succeeded by Mr. John Jackson, who showed equal ability, 
and who in the course of his forty-two years of keepership became a leading 
authority on vegetable products. He retired on his well-earned pension in 1901. 
2 There are now (1902) about 190 portraits of botanists in this No. 1 Museum. 
There are also in the Herbarium 275 mounted in portfolios, and a few hanging on 
the walls, amongst which latter are excellent oil paintings of the late Mr. Bentham 
and of Professors Oliver and Baker, 
