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 PLANTS JAVANICE RAMORES.

��In the postscript to the ' Plantse Javanicse' Dr. Horsfield states — " On my arrival in England my zoological col- lections required my first attention, both with a view to their preservation and to their exhibition in the Honorable Company's Museum. It was therefore no less advan- tageous to myself than important to science, that Robert Brown, Esq., with a ready and disinterested zeal, undertook the examination and arrangement of my Herbarium. After much time and labour, every specimen of an extensive series of duplicates was examined, all the species of each genus were brought together, the entire Herbarium was distributed into families according to the natural method, and the basis of an accurate catalogue was formed. By this operation the number of species composing the Her- barium, which had previously been vaguely estimated, was determined to be 2196.

" While engaged in this arrangement Mr. Brown noted in each family those subjects which appeared to possess the greatest interest, either on account of their novelty, or of their peculiarity of structure ; and from the subjects thus noted he finally made a selection, which it was pro- posed to publish under the title of ' Plantce Javanicce Mar lores!

" It was at the same time determined that a series of figures for the illustration of all the subjects to be described in the work should be prepared. Although a considerable number of drawings had been made in Java by native

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