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has been obtained, this ought to be considered as an advantage; and, moreover, 
the increased value of the ground forming the old site went a considerable way 
towards defraying the expenses of the removal. 
A band used to be employed on certain evenings during the week, the same as 
is now done by the Manchester Garden; it formed a source of great attraction to 
the visitors, but it has been discontinued for the last year or two. 
At the commencement of the establishment of the Garden, it formed part of 
the plan of the proprietors to add a library of works on Natural History, and a 
collection of specimens of dried plants, as appendages to the Institution. The 
foundation of the latter was laid by the purchase of the Museum of the date^Dr. 
Forster, of Halle. This collection—which is one of the most interesting features 
of the foreign portion of the Herbarium'—comprises many thousand specimens, 
collected by the Doctor and his son in the South-Sea Islands, and other foreign 
countries, and large contributions of plants from those illustrious botanists, 
LinnjEus, Thunberg, Sprengel, Jacquin, and Pallas, with whom Dr. Forster 
was in correspondence. Most of the specimens collected by Pallas are from 
Siberia and the banks of the Volga, and have very interesting memoranda in 
Latin, in the hand-writing of Pallas. The principal contributors to the 
Herbarium are—Sir J. E. Smith, Sir W. J. Hooker, Mr. Swainson, Mr. Boot 
(principally North-American specimens), Dr. Buchanan, the Missionary (prin¬ 
cipally Nipal specimens), Mr. C. S. Parker (New Holland plants), Mr. Bearpark, 
Mr. E. Robson, Mr. Wright, Sir Thomas Gage, Mr. Smith (North-American 
specimens), Capt. Lace, Mr. A. Harrison, Mr. J. Haworth, and the following 
Manchester gentlemen connected with the Botanic Garden,—Messrs. Tomlinson, 
Phillips, Stanley, Law, Ackers, and Bridgeford. Mr. Aiton, of the Kew 
Gardens, was also a large contributor. The specimens contributed by Sir W. J. 
Hooker were collected by him when on a tour in Switzerland, and are mostly 
Alpine species, in a beautiful state of preservation. Mr. Swainson’s specimens 
are gathered from the most classic spots in Greece; they are beautifully dried, 
but are not in every instance named. To show the spirit with which the pro¬ 
prietors commenced the Garden and Herbarium, it may be mentioned that they 
engaged Sir J. E. Smith to deliver a course of botanical lectures, and purchased 
specimens from him to the amount of £300. Amongst this collection are many 
of Sir J ames’s duplicates from the Linnaean Herbarium—a nearly complete series 
of British S dices ,—an interesting collection of Lichens,—specimens of the difficult 
genera Rosa and Rubus , and some Swiss plants collected by himself.* 
On the occasion of Mr. Shepherd’s death—which happened shortly after the 
* They also sent out Mr. Bradbury, an excellent botanist, to collect for them in North- 
America; there are a great many of his dried specimens in the Herbarium, [principally in 
Louisiana. 
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