572 FREE ADMISSIONS TO ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY’S GARDENS. 
The collector to follow some work on British Botany (such as that of Babing- 
ton or Bentham), and to state the work which he adopts. The name of each 
plant, its habitat, and the date of collection, to be stated on the paper on which 
it is preserved. 
Each collection to be accompanied by a note, containing a declaration, signed 
by the collector, and certified by his employer, or a Pharmaceutical Chemist to 
whom the collector is known, to the following effect:—The plants which accom¬ 
pany this note were collected by myself, between the first day of May, 1869, 
and the first day of June, 1870, and were named and arranged without any 
assistance but that derived from books. 
In estimating the merits of the collections, not only will the number of spe¬ 
cies be taken into account, but also their rarity or otherwise, and the manner in 
which they are preserved ; and should a specimen be wrongly named, it will be 
erased from the list. 
The collections to be forwarded to the Secretary of the Society, 17, Blooms¬ 
bury Square, on or before the first day of July, 1870, indorsed “ Herbarium for 
Competition for the Botanical Prizes.” After the announcement of the award, 
they will be retained one month, under the care of the Curator of the Museum, 
for the inspection of persons connected with the Society, and then returned to 
the collectors, if required. 
No candidate will be allowed to compete, unless he be an Associate, Regis¬ 
tered Apprentice, or a Student of the Society, or if his age exceed twenty-one 
years. 
TREE ADMISSIONS TO THE ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY’S 
GARDENS, REGENT’S PARK. 
The following pupils of the Class of Materia Medina and Botany, in the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society, after examination in the Elements of Structural and Phy¬ 
siological Botany, were recommended by Professor Bentley to Mr. Sowerby, the 
Secretary of the Royal Botanic Society, for free admission to the Gardens in the 
Regent’s Park, and the privilege has been accorded to them :— 
R. Calvert. 
Mr. 
George Iredale. 
Janies Thos. Clarke. 
William Luff. 
Richard Summerby Crossby. 
Walter George Mackmurdo. 
Joseph Cuffling. 
J. E. Maitland. 
Horace Davenport. 
Robert N. Mason. 
Felix Goodwin. 
Arthur P. Penrose. 
Edward Histed. 
John William Reeler. 
George Iliffe. 
V 
Everton Sainsbury. 
John Ingham. 
Walter Henry Smith. 
Mr. R. H. Swingburn. 
The above are arranged alphabetically, and without reference to actual merit 
exhibited at the examination. 
These orders will admit to the Gardens upon ordinary days in the months of 
March, April, and August, from nine a.m. till one p.m. ; and in May, June, 
and July, from seven a.m. till one p.m. Such orders, therefore, give every 
facility to those who possess them of making themselves practically acquainted 
with plants. 
