This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt:...so as to convey the flowing turpentine into earthen vessels beneath. It is afterwards distilled. Impl.ements used in wounding the stems and collecting the turpentine are exhibited in this case. That which concretes on the trunk is known as Barras or Galipot. (See Musezam No. 1, Case 117.) Ho. 1. ZELKOVA Tum: (Zelkora crenata, Spacl1., syn. Planera Ricbardi, Michx.) A native of the Caucasus, where it attains a height of from 70 to 80 feet. The sapwood is very elastic, of a light colour, and is used for similar purposes to Elm wood; the heartwood is of a reddish colour, very heawy and very hard. It takes a good polish, and is used for furniture. The specimen is from a tree which grew in the Royal Gardens, Kew. b. Palestine. N0. 1. (Left hand on entering.) Section of a branch of the celebrated Oak troe, from near Hebron, known as Abraham's Oak ( Quercus pseudo-cocczlfera, Desf.). This specimen formed part of a branch that was broken oif in a snowstorm in the winter of I856-57., It was purchased by Mr. Finn, British Consul at Jerusalem and Palestine from 1845 to 1863, who had the branch cut up and conveyed to Jerusalem. Sir Joseph Hooker, in a paper on "Three Oaks of Palestine" (Transactions of the Linnean Society, Vol. xxiii., p. 381), says, " Owing to a " superstition that any person who should cut or maim the Oak " would lose his first-born son, considerable difliculty was " experienced in procuring hands to saw up the timber for " transportation. These were at last brought up from Jerusalem, " nearly 25 miles ofl', and loaded seven camels with the wood " of the one limb of this fine tree. This tree is popularly " supposed to indicate the spot where Abraham...