348 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



Sm. {EiqjJiocarpus mss.) ; Baueram [Bamsaia mss.) ; et Euca- 

 lijptum L'H^rit. [Aromadendrum mss.)-" 



There remain for consideration the MSS. in Anderson's hand 

 which came into the possession of Banks, and are now in the 

 British Museum (Nat. Hist.). These originally formed one small 

 quarto volume in the Department of Zoology, but were separated 

 in 1898, the botanical portion being then transferred to the 

 Department of Botany, where it remains. The descriptions must 

 have been taken during the voyage, as Andersoi? died before its 

 completion, but many were transcribed and amplified after the 

 first description. 



The portion containing the Zoology is interesting as giving the 

 only record of Anderson's observations during the second voyage : 

 the first part of this is entitled " Characteres breves Avium (in 

 itinere nostro circum orbe visa) adhuc incognitorum anni 1772, 

 1773, 1774, 1775" : it consists of thirteen small quarto pages, and 

 enumerates and diagnoses birds mostly from New Zealand and New 

 Caledonia, with some from the Cape, the Sandwich Islands, and 

 Terra del Fuego. This is followed by "Zoologia nova seu Charac- 

 teres & Historia Animalium hactenus incognitorum qui in itinere 

 nostro videbantur 1776 in Unguis Latinis & Anglicis traditus. 

 W. A." In this, animals, birds, lizards, fishes, and insects are 

 described, mostly from the above localities, but including birds from 

 Kerguelen's Land. It is evident that on this, as on other early 

 voyages, special attention was paid to ornithology : Sydney 

 Parkinson's drawings, taken during Cook's first voyage, those by 

 George Forster on the second, and those of Wilham W. Ehis, 

 Anderson's companion on the third, are in the Natural History 

 Museum, and the correlation of these last with Anderson's MS 

 descriptions would probably lead to the identification of many 

 of the latter. An enumeration of the drawings of the three 

 voyages, with identifications, by Bowdler Sharpe, will be found in 

 the Ilistorij of the Collections, ii, 172-208. On the last page, under 

 Tatare ceqzinioctialis, we ]'ead : " Latham described this bird (Gen. 

 Syn. Suppl. i, 187) from the papers of Mr. Anderson." A reference 

 to Latham (Z. c.) shows that both this and the description of a 

 bird from Van Diemen's Land which immediately precedes it are 

 adapted from the MSS. under notice: in the latter case Latham 

 {Index Oniithologicus, ii, 553) adopts Anderson's trivial for the 

 bird, which he named Sylvia canescens. 



II. — Plants collected by Anderson. 



The volume of Anderson's MSS. devoted to plants contains 

 forty pages ; it is in two parts, each with a title-page. The first 

 runs, " Genera nova Plantarum seu Descriptiones characterum 

 naturalium Plantarum adhuc incognitarum in itinere nostro visa 

 — 1776, 1777 — in Linguis Latinis et Anglicis scriptis, W.A. " ; 

 the second contains the " Descriptiones seu Characteres specifi- 

 cos." As in the zoological portion, many of the full and careful 

 descriptions, which include plants from the regions already men- 

 tioned, appear twice, in the original and in a revised form. They 



