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THE Godman Trustees have presented to the Department of Botany of the Natural History Museum a collection of about six hundred plants made by Mr. R. C. N. Young in north-east Angola (Lunda). The Department is particularly rich in Angolan plants having valuable collections from F. Welwitsch and J. Gossweiler. The present set of plants is of considerable interest as it is from an area so far botanically unknown. Three octavo volumes of British plants have been presented by Miss Jackson. The interest in these is bibliographical, as. there is a printed title page giving publisher's name and date (1847); there is also a printed preface. The title reads “Specimen Flora or British Botany exemplified by Plants from a Collector's Cabinet”. The plants were “arranged by the author of ‘The Pictorial Flora’” [Mary Ann Jackson].
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Botany Collections at the Natural History Museum. Nature 130, 841 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130841b0
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