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" mscr." appended to the name, and tlie munber oi' .•^peciimiUMj 

 collected of each plant is indicated. 



In the volume published by the Briti.sh Museum 1 have attri- 

 buted the names ot" species which have been adopted by vai'ious 

 aulliors from the Solander JMSS. to Banks and 8olander jointly, 

 although in uuiny instances 8i)hindef alone wjis originally cited 

 for ihein. The joint responsibility seems to have been recognized 

 by their contem[)oraries : thus (Smith, writing in Eees's Cycloinidia 

 (under Jasminum), referring to what are usually known as the 

 iSolander manuscripts, speaks of them as the work of both ; a 

 similar indication by Patrick Kussell has already been mentioned. 



In 177- Banks went to Iceland, accom]ninied by kSolander and 

 by J. Y. Miller as artist ; it would seem that he kept a journal 

 ot the voyage, but this cannot be traced. The specimens collected 

 by him are, however, in the Herbariun), and there is a volume of 

 memoranda in MS. connected with the visit, which includes a 

 rough list m Solander's hand, wherein the principal plants obtained 

 are ilescribed. Most of the sketches — 11 in luimber — are endorsed 

 by Banks with the name and locality. 



After 1773, as the Correspondence more than once referred to 

 shows. Banks was occupied by the consideration of a number of 

 subjects, of which botany was only one. In 176G he had becojue 

 a Fellow of the Eoyal Society, in which he soon occupied a 

 prominent position, and in 1778 was elected President. From 

 this time his practical interest in Botany was mainly confined to 

 his Herbarium, for the curatorshi]) of which he secured in succes- 

 sion Solander and Dryander, to whose industry and knowledge its 

 value is mainly due. 



The Herbarium is indeed in some respects the greatest evidence 

 of Banks's position as a botanist ; it was not the formation of a 

 man whose primary instincts Avere those of a collector but of 

 one who knew the value and interest of what he acquired, and 

 who was willing to allow others to share the treasures which he 

 had secured. These included the large collection of drawings 

 and MSS., of which a list is given in the official ' Hisiory ' of the 

 Museum Collections; among the latter are the series of volumes 

 known as the Solander manuscripts — the work mainly of Solander 

 and Dryander — which may be regarded as a key not only to the 

 Banksian but to the Sloane collections, and form the basis of 

 Alton's 'Hortus Kewensis.' Among the herbaria secured by Banks 

 are those of Herman, Clifford (on which the 'Hortus Clitfortianus' 

 was based), Gronovins, AVilliam lloustonn, John Peinhold Forster 

 and George Forster, Jacquin, Phillip Miller, and Loiaviro. Among 

 tliose who have testified to the \alue of the collections and to the 

 readiness with which they were placed at their disposal may be 

 mentioned Swartz, Thunberg, the elder DeCandolle, and Gaertner, 

 who in his ' De Fructibus' (1788-1805) continually acknowledges 

 his indebtedness to the Herbarium, from w hich he describes manv 

 novelties. Tlie importance of the Herbarium is thus summarized 



