6 Libraries. 



Library, and so may be held in some sense to have constituted 

 the nucleus of the present collection of works on Natural History. 

 Some volumes formerly in Sloane's library were transferred at 

 later dates ; as were also some from Baron von Moll's library, 

 which was acquired in 1815. 



1818. 



Z.* J. Abbot's original water-colour drawings of the Insects 

 and Plants of Georgia, with manuscript descriptions, comprised 

 in 17 volumes, formerly in the possession of J. Francillon, was 

 purchased. 



1827. 



B. The first approximation towards the formation of a depart- 

 mental library was in 1827, when the collections and library of 

 Sir Joseph Banks were transferred to the Trustees, it being 

 agreed that the Keeper of the Banksian Botanical Collections 

 should also have exclusive care and management of the manu- 

 scripts, with the drawings and copper-plates engraved. 



Under this agreement 149 volumes, chiefly systematic works 

 used in the herbarium, that were either duplicates, or had 

 manuscript notes in them, remained in what is now the Depart- 

 ment of Botany with the Banksian collections of MSS. and 

 Drawings.f Some other duplicate volumes from this Library, 

 which forms an item of the Printed Books Department, were 

 transferred at later dates to other of the Natural History 

 departments. 



1835. 



Z. The collection of drawings formed by Major-General T. 

 Hardwicke were bequeathed with his collections in 1835, but 

 remained in charge of the MSS. Department till the removal of 

 the Zoological Collections to South Kensington, when they were 

 transferred to the Zoological Department.! 



B. His botanical MSS. and drawings, however, were placed 

 at once with the Banksian Botanical Collection. 



1841. 



B. An important collection of water-colour drawings of 

 Plants, by Franz A. Bauer, " being that part of Mr. Bauer's 



* For explanation of these initials, see p. 1, ante. 

 t For an enumeration of these, see pp. 23-26. 



