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Powell Collection. Purchased from the representatives of the late
J. T. Powell.
Sewell Collection. Presented by the representatives of the late Mr.
S. A. Sewell.
Benson Collection. Collected by the late Rev. T. Benson. Presented
by Mrs. Sidney Thorp. (See Essex Naturalist vol. I. pp. 138-9 and
205).
Moore Collection. Presented by Mr. W. Moore. Specimens collected
principally within a five mile radius of Felstead Church and a four mile
radius of Rochester Castle.
Plants collected by John Ray, of Epping ; See Essex Naturalist
xi., 224.
Mrs. Cowles, Stratford. Plants collected near Edinburgh.
Collection of British Ferns. Presented by Miss Marian S. Ridley.
Collection of Phanerogamus Plants made by Miss M. I. Tindal (1835).
Small Collection of Teratological Specimens, made by the late Charles
Browne, M.A.
And many small collections of plants by various donors.
In dealing with the mass of material that was to hand, the
primary consideration that guided those responsible for the
arrangement of the collection was to make the Herbarium such
that it would be possible for the student as rapidly as possible
to refer to any specimen therein contained. As, however,
the material to hand represented collections from various
sources, the first practical step to be taken was to clearly mark
each specimen sheet with the name of the source from which
it was derived. The next consideration was the question of
what arrangement of Orders, Genera and Species should be
followed. The best seemed to be that of the British Museum
List of Seed-plants and Ferns (of 1907), for the reason that this
may be used in conjunction with the fullest and latest Botany
Manual, that of the ninth edition of "Babington" as revised
by Henry and James Groves and published in 1904. The
British Museum List invariably adopts or refers to the specific
names of this manual.
In the work of sorting the material into the various Genera
and Species four points had to be dealt with. (1) Many specimens
were present which are not included in the British Museum
List : aliens and such like plants. These for the time being
have been placed in a special box which will later receive atten-
tion. (2) Many specimen sheets were found on which were
mounted more than one species ; these again have been
separated, and will later be remounted and placed in the