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stitute, to accompany Banks on the now famous voyage with 

 Captain Cook. He returned in 1771, and, Maty becoming 

 Principal Librarian in 1772, Solander was made Keeper of the 

 Natural History Department in 1773. At the same time, J. O. 

 Justamond was appointed Assistant Keeper, and was joined 

 in that office in 1776 by the Rev. P. H. Maty ; E. W. Gray 

 succeeded Justamond in 1778. E. W. Gray was uncle of Samuel 

 Frederick Gray, the Chemist, whose son John Edward Gray 

 joined the Museum staff in 1824 and became one of the most 

 prominent systematists of his time. 



On Solander's death in 1782, P. H. Maty succeeded to the 

 Keepership, and the Rev. C. G. Woide to the vacant Assistant 

 Keepership. When P. H. Maty died in 1787, E. W. Gray 

 was appointed to the Keepership, and in 1791 the well-known 

 naturalist, G. Shaw, became Assistant Keeper. 



In 1803 Taylor Combe was made an Assistant Keeper, with 

 charge of the Antiquities and Coins. 



E. W. Gray died in 1806, and the following year the first 

 important change was made, the old department being divided 

 nto the " Department of Natural History and Modern Curiosi- 

 ties," with G. Shaw for Keeper, and the " Department of 

 Antiquities and Coins," of which T. Combe was made Keeper. 

 Chas. Konig was added to the staff of the former as Assistant 

 Keeper in the same year, and became Keeper in 1813 on Shaw's 

 death. 



"W. E. Leach was made Assistant Keeper in 1813, but retired 

 in 1822, and was succeeded in 1823 by J. G. Children, transferred 

 from the Department of Antiquities, which he had joined in 

 1816. The department was further strengthened by the addition 

 of J. E. Gray in 1824, G. R. Gray in 1831, and Adam White in 

 1835. 



In 1827 the Banksian Herbarium was transferred to the 

 custody of the Trustees, Robert Brown, its former custodian, 

 being created " Keeper of Sir Joseph Banks' Botanical Collection." 

 By the addition to this in 1835 of the Sloane Herbarium and 

 other botanical collections in the charge of the Natural History 

 Department, a " Botanical Branch " was formed. 



