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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 

 ntore 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- 

 throloBna conspicua, and many other Mexican species; the 

 Hibiscus liliijiorus^ the Thunbergia alata and angulata^ the 

 Hunnemannia fumaricBfolia, Clerodendron emirnense, Poin- 

 ciana regia. Arum campanulatum, Leschenaultia Jbrmosa, and 

 L. ohlata, Argemone grandiflora and A. alhifiora^ and Chelone 

 atro-purpurea. 



Aware how little Botany or any science could be success- 

 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 Natural 

 History and Botany, and in this latter department he possessed 

 himself of every publication that could illustrate his favourite 

 pursuit; so that his library may be reckoned among the 



