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enabled to prepare labels for the printer for all the Indian food-products of the vegetable kingdom. Every specimen of value is now on exhibition, with a short, written label attached, and the whole collection arranged according to the order of the genera in Bentham & Hooker's 'Genera Plantarum'. To have accomplished this result without the aid of Dr. Palmer would have been the work of months, and without his notes it could not have been done so well. The collection is on exhibition, but some of the specimens are not permanently installed, and it will present a more attractive appearance when time permits the remounting of those requiring it.

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[[signed]] R Hitchcock [[/signed]]