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of plants represented in our dried "collection . These I commenced to collect
soon
after my appoinctscconcton to this establishment; and the work has been Continued whenever I could avail
time
I.
myself of any opportunity. As it was impossible to find time in the day a great deal of this work was done by night. About a couple of yours ago
commenced to rearrange and relabel the collection according to the new systein adopted in the Genera Plantarum, a great work, just___ completed, on which Sir Joseph
Hooker and Mr Beutham were occupied for upwards of 20 years. References have been made to the Genera Plantarum for the position
in the system of every 2,000 species and new labels have
one
of
these
been written for each specimen.
The
following sample exhibit the
mouner in which each specimen
is labetted :--
5. Leguminosa.
Suterdot. Papilionacea Tribus 2. Genisted.
Crotalaria, Linn.
albida, Hezz.
Those
var
West River, below Tung Chun,
18 May, 1882
Coll. C. F
specimens are accomodated
in eight cabine to which have been made with a special view to preserving the contruks as far as possible from damp. By
an alteration in my office arrangements, I have been enabled to place the cabiuck in a room to a fire can occasionally
themselves where a
been
be