1865. E. J. Lowe: Our Native Ferns. Two vols., 8vo. 79 coloured plates and 909 woodcuts.--_City._ 1868. L. E. Tripp: British Mosses. Two vols., 4to. Coloured figures of every known species.--_City_, _P. P._ 1872. Horatio C. Wood: North American Fresh-water Algæ. 4to. 21 plates filled with exquisite coloured figures.--_P. P._ 1872. Flore Forestiére, &c. Folio. 18 splendid coloured plates, representing about 120 of the most interesting trees and shrubs of central Europe.--_P. P._ 1872-1874. D. Wooster: Alpine Plants. Two vols., 8vo. 108 coloured plates.--_City._ 1873. Le Maout and Decaisne: General System of Botany. Translated by Mrs. Hooker. 5,500 woodcuts.--_City._ 1875. Sachs: Text-book of Botany. A massive 8vo., with innumerable woodcuts.--_City._ 1877. F. G. Heath: The Fern World. 12 coloured plates.--_City._ 1878. F. G. Heath: Our Woodland Trees. Contains excellent coloured drawings of their leaves.--_City._ In addition to the thousand botanical works contained in the three great Free Libraries, there are many of considerable value, which they do not possess, in the Portico, the Athenæum, the "Royal Exchange," the Owens College, and other collections not open to the general public. The following are the most important of the illustrated volumes. The aggregate of all kinds in the subscription libraries is about four hundred volumes. A.D. 1834. Stephenson and Churchill: Medical Botany. Three vols., 8vo.--_Owens._ 1834-1849. Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Gardening. Sixteen vols. Nearly 600 fine coloured plates.--_Royal Exchange._ 1838-1847. John Lindley: Botanical Register. New series. Ten vols., 8vo. 688 fine coloured plates.--_Portico._ 1841. Mrs. Loudon: Ornamental Bulbous Plants. 4to.--_Royal Exchange._ 1843-1844. Mrs. Loudon: Ornamental Perennials. Two vols., 4to.--_Royal Exchange._ 1845. A. H. Hassall: British Fresh-water Algæ. Two vols., 8vo. 100 plates.--_Owens._ 1848. John Ralfs: The British Desmidiaceæ. 8vo.--_Owens._ 1850. Wm. Griffiths: Palms of British East India. Large folio. 133 plates.--_Owens._ 1851-1853. Lindley and Paxton: The Flower Garden. Three vols., 4to. 108 admirable plates and 314 woodcuts.--_Royal Exchange._ [Illustration] Footnote [32: A complete catalogue of the thousand botanical works in the Manchester Libraries, with notes upon their various contents, has been prepared by the author of this volume, and only waits publication. Meantime it can be consulted by any person who may wish to use it.] [Illustration] SUMMARY OF RAILWAY STATIONS AND DISTANCES. _The figures after the names of the respective places denote the number of miles they are distant from the Manchester Station of departure previously mentioned._ I. LONDON ROAD STATION. (_a_)--_London and North-Western._