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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 at once 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 August, 1865, indorsed “ Herbarium 
for Competition for the Botanical Prizes.” 
If required , the collection will he returned after competition. 
No candidate will be allowed to compete unless he be an Associate, Regis- 
tered Apprentice, or Student of the Society, or if his age exceed twenty-one 
years. 
FREE ADMISSIONS TO THE ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETT’S 
GARDENS, REGENT’S PARK. 
The following pupils of the Class of Materia Medica and Botany, in the 
Pharmaceutical Society, after examination in the Elements of Structural and 
Physiological Botany, were recommended by Professor Bentley to Air. 
Sowerby, the Secretary of the Royal Botanic Society, for free admission to 
the Gardens in the Regent’s Park, and the privilege was at once liberally 
accorded to them :— 
Mr. J. Bingley. Mr. C. J. Kinch. 
— J. M. O’Eminson. — M. Magor. 
— J. Eaulkner. •*— B. Shaw. 
— C. Gorton. — H. Smith. 
— A. Hall. — E. Solomon. 
— J. P. Iliffe. — B. Tanner. 
— E. W. Jones. — J. Watts. 
The above are arranged alphabetically, and without any reference to actual 
merit exhibited at the examination. 
These orders will admit the above Students to the gardens upon ordinary 
days in the months of March, April, and August, from nine a.m. till one p.h. ; 
and in May, June, and July, from seven a.m. till one p.m. Such orders, there¬ 
fore, give every facility to those who possess them of making themselves prac¬ 
tically acquainted with plants. 
PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
Wednesday, March 2, 1864. 
MR. SANDFORD, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
'The following 
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 
were announced, and the thanks of the meeting given to the donors thereof 
The Chemical News. 
The Chemist and Druggist. 
The Dental Review. 
The British Journal of Dental Science. 
The Photographic Journal. 
The Educational Times. 
The Technologist. 
The Veterinarian. 
The Medical Circular. 
The Journal of the Society of Arts. 
The Journal of the Chemical Society. 
Bulletin de la Societe de Chimie de Paris. 
Kaiserliche Adcademie der Wissenschaften in 1 Vien; die Proceduren. Nos. 3—5. From 
the respective Editors. 
Watts's Dictionary of Chemistry. Part 13. From the Author. 
