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HERBARIUM NOTES, &c. 
The Contributors to the British Collection. 
In the first report issued by the Yorkshire Philosophical 
Society, 1824, mention is made of the presentation of 
Herbarium specimens by James Backhouse, Esq., Capt. Fred 
Vernon, R.N., and Miss Atkinson. Also of donations to the 
Library, consisting of a volume of the Flora Scotica by the 
author (W. J. Hooker, LL.D.), and Flora Edinensis by the 
author (R. K. Greville, LL.D.), both of whom were dis¬ 
tinguished botanists, and Honorary Members of this Society. 
The names of the Rev. James Dalton, S. Hailstone, Esq., 
W. Middleton, Esq., are associated with those, who, in the 
early years of this Society’s existence, endeavoured to realize 
the wishes of its originators. 
The Rev. James Dalton, a distinguished naturalist of this 
county, presented in 1827, a valuable collection of 2,500 
specimens of British Phanerogams. 
In the same year, 1827, W. Middleton, Esq., of Poppleton, 
contributed a similar collection of 1,780 specimens, well 
illustrated by characteristic varieties. 
The Herbarium was enriched in 1833 by a collection of 
Scottish plants, which had obtained the gold medal of the 
Botanical Professor at Edinburgh University. This donation 
was made by Giles Munby, Escp, of York, the collector of the 
specimens and a celebrated Botanist. 
In addition to these donations, the Society became possessors 
of the following collections of British Phanerogams—Hailstone, 
1852, 0. A. Moore, 1862, Dalton, miscellaneous collection, 
1887, Walker, 1892-93. 
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The Arrangement of the Specimens. 
In 1827, the Rev. W. Hincks, F\L.S., Lecturer on Botany, 
York School of Medicine, was appointed Honorary Curator of 
Botany. He commenced in 1828 to arrange the Botanical 
specimens according to the natural system of De Candolle, and 
in doing so, incorporated the collections of Backhouse, Dalton, 
and Middleton. 
In addition to arranging the specimens in the Herbarium, 
Mr. Hincks delivered a course of Lectures on Botany in 1829, 
