FREE ADMISSIONS TO ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY’S GARDENS. 595 
The collections to consist of Flowering plants and Ferns, arranged according 
to the Natural System of De Candolle, or any other natural method in common 
use, and to be accompanied by lists, arranged according to the same method, 
with the species numbered. 
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, 1870, 
and the first day of June, 1871, 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, 1871, 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. 
FREE ADMISSIONS TO THE ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY’S 
GARDENS, REGENT’S PARK. 
The following pupils of the class of Botany and Materia Medica, in the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society, after examination in Elementary, Structural, and Physio¬ 
logical Botany, by Professor Bentley, have had free admissions to the Gardens 
in the Regent’s Park given to them :— 
Mr. Frank Adams. 
„ W. T. Aylesbury. 
„ F. J. Barrett. 
„ James Bell. 
„ Harold Bouttell. 
F. P. Brown. 
„ Horace Davenport. 
„ W. K. Ferguson. 
„ C. E. Fox. 
„ Robert M. Fowke. 
„ Charles Fryer. 
„ J. P. Jackson. 
Mr. R. W. Kiddle. 
„ Edward Lloyd. 
„ W. H. Page. 
„ F. H. Peck. 
„ H. E. Price. 
„ W. Raffle. 
„ Robert Richmond. 
„ Edward Henry Storey. 
„ W. P. Swift. 
„ Philip Vincent. 
„ E. A. Webb. 
„ G. E. Williamson. 
The above names are arranged in alphabetical order. 
These orders will admit to the Gardens upon ordinary days in the months of 
March, April, and August, from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m. ; and in May, June, and July, 
from 7 a.m. till 1 p.m. Such orders, therefore, give every facility to those who 
possess them of making themselves practically acquainted with plants. 
