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MR. JAMES BRITTEX ON KOME 



on the sexes, the size, and places of growth, whicli I have everywhere inserted 

 ou his authority/' Dr. Jackson informs mo that this collection is not now 

 in the Society's possession, having heen disposed of at the sale of the 

 Society's collodions in 186-1. 



James AVilrs (|180G) was botanist on the voyage of the Providence 



came to 



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17yi-3, and on his way out collected at the Cape. His 



Banks and are in the Herbarium — e, g. Erica se.vfaria (see under Nelson) 



endorsed '' Cape. Table Mountain, Mr. Wiles. 1791 Nov/' 



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Dr. James Lind (173G-1812) was at the Cape in 1779, on his way 

 to India, and "collected a few plants'^ for Banks — '* moro,^' he writes to 

 him from Cape Town {23rd 0(*.t, 1779), *' for the practice of drying them 



than for anything else, Masson and Paterson baring sent home everything 

 this place produces in the vegetable way" (Banks Correspondence, i. 274). 



James BojiKUi^SON, of whom the little that is known is brought together 



in Journ. Bot. 1899 (p. 87)^ collected at tlie Cape In 1772, on his way 

 to India : a considerable number of his specimens, notably in Restio^ — all 

 endorsed in Bacstrom's hand " C. of Good Hope, False Bay, Mr, Robertson, 

 fruthered April 1772^^ — arc scattered through the Herbarium* 



David Nelson (tl779) collected at the Cape on Cook's Third Voyage, and 

 his pkmts, sent to Banks, are in the Herbarium (see Journ. Bot. 1916, 351) 

 e.g. in Ericaceae, where are specimens of Erica sexfana from Nelson, Wiles, 

 Tliunberg, and Mmssou. These may be regarded as types of that species, 

 which was published iirst as a plate in Bauer's ' Delineations of Exotick 

 Plants,' 1. 11 (1793). Mr. N.E.Brown (Fl. Cap. iv. 1, 240) cites 'M.?Muer^' 

 as the authority for ilie name, on the strength of tins plate: the Kew Index 

 gives " Ait."" ; Bentlmm (DC. Prodr. vii. 618) cites '' Dryand. !^' ; Andrews 

 (Heaths, ii. t. 131), Avho first described it, gives no authority. The matter 

 from a bibliographical standpoint is discussed in Journ. Bot. 1901, 107 : 

 whatever decision may be arrived at, it is certain, not only from the Herbarium 

 and the Sohmder MSS. but also from Bauer's original drawing for the plate, 



that Drvnnder was the author of the species : Francis Bauer, so far as I am 

 aware, had no knowledge of flowering plants beyond that displayed in his 

 beautiful drawings. • 



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Althoufili Robert Brown lived until be3'ond the middle of the last century, 

 his visit to the Cape occurred in its first year ; and it se^ms not unfitting that 

 this paper^ wliich has been concerned so largely with the collections in the 

 Department of Botany, should end with a reference to the work of its first 

 Keeper^the ' Botanicorum princeps ' of his age. 



As is well known. Brown accompanied Flinders on the Voyage of the 

 lavestigator (1801-3) as '^naturalist/' with Ferdinand Bauer as "natural- 

 history painter,^' The sin'p was at the Cape from Oct, 17 to Nov. 3, 1801, 



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