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vince ; murders and violent cases of assaults were of frequent occur- 
rence, but now the case is reversed — no outrage of any description ever 
happens ; they attend regularly Divine Service, their children are edu- 
cated, they themselves dress neatly, are lawfully married, and as a body 
there are no people, in point of general good condu6t, to surpass them ; 
this change which has caused peace and contentment to prevail, was 
brought about solely through missionary labour ; and why not, may I 
enquire, extend similar benefits to the more benighted children of the 
woods." 
This letter — Mr. Brett adds in a footnote — led to the re-establish- 
ment of the Waramuri Mission, which had been vacant for four years, 
under Mr* Wadie in 1854. 
A Difficulty of Botanical Colleclors. — In a recent 
number of this Journal an ( occasional note ' was inserted 
under this heading which has, to my great regret, given 
rise to some misapprehension. It has been read as a 
charge of carelessness on the part of the workers in our 
national herbarium at Kew, in determining and identifying 
some of the more obscure and difficult plants sent there 
by botanical collectors. As a matter of fact the writer 
of the paragraph fully realized, fully appreciated, the 
really extraordinary perfection of the arrangements by 
which the staff of that Herbarium, considerably too 
small for the work it has to do, sorts and orders the in- 
numerable specimens which are constantly sent to it 
from all parts of the world. The system is as perfect, 
probably more perfect than that of any other similar es- 
tablishment in the world ; and the staff of specialists 
who take under their charge the various parts of all col- 
lections arriving there, each taking the plants of the 
special group which he has made his study, are even 
famous for their, often ill-rewarded, devotion, to and in- 
