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confined to Botanical objects, the seas were ransacked for . 
shells and corallines; and birds and quadrupeds, both living 
and dead, were equally transmitted to Mr. Barclay; and such 
of them as Mr. Barclay did not wish to add to his own 
Museum, were liberally presented by him to the Zoological 
Society." Thus possessed of great vegetable riches from the 
most remote quarters of the globe, it was his pleasure, and 
his pride, too, to render them available to others; so that 
there is not a collection of any value in Britain, which is not 
indebted for some of its chief attractions to Mr. Barclay. 
In particular, he was anxious that they should be described 
and figured. He kept an artist, almost constantly employed 
in representing the new or rare plants which bloomed in the 
Buryhill gardens; and their number is so great, as to have 
filled several volumes: but it afforded their possessor still 
more gratification to have them represented and described in 
some publication. Hence it is, that I am indebted to him 
for so many of the species figured in the Botanical Magazine, 
and every similar work owes him a similar debt of gratitude 
It would require too much space to enumerate the many 
desirable plants which his zeal has introduced into this 
country and his liberality distributed; so that our gardens; 
stoves, and green-houses, owe to him some of their chief 
ornaments. It will be sufficient to mention here the Ery 
throlena conspicua, and many other Mexican species; the 
Hibiscus liliiflorus, the Thunbergia alata and angulata, the 
Hunnemannia fumariefolia, Clerodendron emirnense, Poin- 
ciana regia, Arum campanulatum, Leschenaultia formosa, and 
L. oblata, Argemone grandiflora and A. albiflora, and CE 
atro-purpurea. 
_ Aware how little Botany or any science could be scons 
fully cultivated without books, Mr. Barclay, to a library 
already well stored with general literature, added a very 
extensive collection, purchased for him in Spain, by the late 
Dr. Shuter. This was particularly rich in works of Nat 
History and Botany, and in this latter department he 
himself of every publication that could illustrate his favourite 
pursuit; ‘so that his library may be reckoned among the 
