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IT is with as much pain as surprise that I notice in your impression of last Thursday a most unfair as well as ungenerous attack upon the botanical establishment at Kew under Dr. Hooker. It is not within my province to discuss the inaccuracies upon which the insinuations of bad cultivation are founded, nor yet the extraordinary statement that the herbarium which the constant experience of a long life has proved to me to be an indispensable adjunct for the efficient working of a national botanical garden—that this “collection of dead plants,” as your correspondent contemptuously terms it—has interfered with the proper care of the garden. There is, however, one of the facts mentioned which my long and intimate acquaintance with the herbarium of the British Museum and its successive keepers, Mr. Brown and Mr. Bennett, calls upon me to deny.
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BENTHAM, G. Our National Herbarium. Nature 7, 26 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/007026a0
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