252 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



From the United States 1,104 



South Australia 

 Dr. WaUich's 



1,000 

 1,021 



Dr. Daubenj's private collection .... 1,900 



43,812 



I must not forget to notice the valuable collection of drawings of the 

 Animals of the Levant, executed for Dr. Sibthorp by his travelling com- 

 panion and'draughstman, the celebrated Ferdinand Bauer, universally 

 admired for their fidelity, and containing some still undescribed speci- 

 mens. They consist of 11 drawings of Quadrupeds, 44 of Reptiles, 

 123 of Fish, and 115 of Birds, 



We are also indebted to Dr. Sibthorp for one of the only two copies 

 ever struck off from the plates engraved by order of the Emperor, from 

 the celebrated MS. of Dioscorides with illuminated figures, preserved 

 in the Imperial Library at Vienna. 



One of these copies, it appears, was presented by the elder Jacqiun 

 to Linnaeus ; the other to Sibthorp, when he passed through Vienna on 

 his way to Greece, in 1786. * 



The MS. was procured by Busbequius, the Emperor's Kesident at 

 Constantinople, about 1560, and is said to have been copied at the ex- 

 pense of Juliana Anicia, daughter to the Emperor Flavins Anicius 

 Olyber, about the year 492. 



Our copy contains 410 figures of plants, to which Dr. Sibthorp has 

 attached the Greek names, and, in spite of their rudeness, may be useful 

 from, their antiquity, in enabling us to identify with modern plants those 

 described in that early authority on the Materia Medica, especially as 

 they are said to agree with the figures contained in a still earlier MS. 

 of the same author, existing in the Library at Naples. 



Mr. Baxter, the former gardener, who has now resigned the more 

 active duties of his post to his son, has lately completed a catalogue of 

 the contents of this Herbarium, which, it is hoped, will render it more 

 generally useful and accessible. 



The above collections however, although, as we have seen, extensive, 

 and, considering the antiquity of most of the specimens, in a state of 

 very fair preservation, have been in a great degree superseded by the 

 valuable donation made to the University in 1852, by the widow of the 

 late Mr. Fielding of Lancaster. 



{To be continued,) 



