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ADMISSIONS TO THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS. 
common use, and to be accompanied by lists, arranged according to the same 
method, with the species numbered. 
The collector to follow some recent work on British Botany, and to state the 
work which he adopts. The name of each plant, its habitat, and the date of col¬ 
lection, 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:— u The plants which ac¬ 
company this note were collected by myself, between the first day of May, 1866, 
and the first day of June, 1867, and were named and arranged without any 
assistance but that derived from books.” The age of the collector must be also 
stated in the note. 
In estimating the merits of the collections, not only will the number of species 
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, this 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, 1867, indorsed u Herbarium for 
Competition for the Botanical Prizes.” After the announcement of the award, 
they will be retained one month, under the care of the Librarian, for the inspec¬ 
tion 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. 
FREE ADMISSIONS TO THE ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY’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 Mr. Sowerby, 
the Secretary of the Royal Botanic Society, for free admission to the Gardens in 
the Regent’s Park, and the 23rivilege was at once liberally accorded to them :— 
Mr. Charles Wm. Bass, 
„ John Scoley Battle, 
„ John H. Davis, 
„ J. T. Dumolo, 
„ R. M. Evans, 
„ Thomas Parries, 
„ Alfred R. Hall, 
„ Richard Hebron, 
„ William Jones, 
Mr. Thomas Ramsey Kent, 
„ Rowland Pritchard Jones, 
„ Edward Skipper, 
„ R. J. Pye Smith, 
„ John James Thorn, 
„ Alfred Tingle, 
„ W. J. Walsham, 
„ Charles Cracknell Watts. 
„ Robert Yates. 
The above are arranged alphabetically, and without 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.m. ; 
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. 
