Catalogue of Boohs in the Franklin Museum. 313 
in the form of a cross, substantially roofed, but open at the sides, being 
102 feet long and 47 feet wide ; and several borders have been planted 
with both deciduous and native shrubs. The objects of the Society in 
the establishment of their Gardens, in addition to the health and recrea¬ 
tion of the inhabitants, are stated by them in their memorial to the 
government, to be the introduction and climatising of plants, as well 
from England as from the warmer countries of the northern hemisphere ; 
as a place of experimental research on the properties of the native plants 
of the island ; as a means of imbuing the minds of the young with a 
taste and love of gardening, who in a new country are but ill provided 
with means of recreation ,* last, as a station whence the most valuable 
and ornamental plants might be collected and distributed throughout 
the country. 
The Society have had the means, through the opportunity of their 
President’s (the Rev. It. It. Davies) stay in London, of establishing a 
communication and interchange of plants and seeds with the Horticul¬ 
tural Society of London, with Mr. Vanstraalen of Brussels, the Messrs. 
Loddlges, of Hackney, Sec., and they have begun and hope permanently 
to keep on foot a similar exchange with the neighbouring colonies. 
Unfortunately the depression existing in agriculture and trade has 
caused a check in the Society’s means, and being prevented from obtain¬ 
ing the assistance of government laborers, and having no government 
aid, can make but slow progress in the attainment of its objects. It has, 
however, already imported largely, and brought into notice a number of 
valuable English fruits and plants existing in the colony hut not before 
recognised, and exhibited satisfactory proof of the advantages which 
such an institution is calculated to confer upon the community. 
CATALOGUE OF BOOKS IN THE FRANKLIN MUSEUM. 
ANCANTHE. 
Title of Work . 
1 Jameson’s Australia and New Zealand 
2 Romance of Nature - - 
3 Polar Regions - 
4 Henslowe’s Botany • 
5 Knox’s Poetic Trifles - 
6 Progress of Australia - 
7 Achill Mission - 
8 Mann’s Australian Provinces 
9 Hovell’s and Hume’s Journey to Port Phillip 
10 Threlkeld’s Australian Grammar 
11, 12, 13, 14 Colonial Magazine, 1,2,3, 4 
15 Ward’s New Zealand - 
16 Fauna of New' Zealand - 
17 Petre’s New Zealand - - 
IS Herschell’s Meteorological Observations - 
19 Rev. J. Y. Wilson’s Address to Inhabitants 
of Portland Bay - 
20 How to Colonise - - - " 
21 Proceedings of the Royal Astronomical oo- 
cieiy 
22 Owen on an Australian Mastodontoid Pachy¬ 
derm - 
23 Richardson’s Ichthyology of New Zealand 
9 
Donor. 
J. F. Buckland, Esq. 
Authoress 
Lady Franklin 
F. H* Henslowe, Esq. 
Author 
Mr. Ferguson 
Sir J. Franklin 
Lady Franklin 
ditto 
David Burns, Esq. 
J. F. Buckland, Esq. 
Dr. Richardson 
J. F. Buckland, Esq. 
Author 
ditto 
Sir J. Franklin 
Author 
ditto 
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