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drawings made at the expense of the late Sir Joseph Banks, 

 baronet, which did not accompany his Library and Botanical 

 Collections when transferred to the Museum, but was bequeathed 

 by Sir Joseph to his late Majesty King George the Fourth," was 

 presented by her late Majesty Queen Victoria. 



Z. A copy of Cramer's " Papillons exotiques," which belonged 

 to Henry Seymer, of Handford, Dorsetshire, who had added the 

 Linnean names and re-touched several of the coloured plates, was 

 presented by A. B. Lambert. 



1842. 



In this year the first systematic purchases of works for the 

 departmental libraries appear to have been made. 



B. The autograph journal of H. Ruiz Lopez, kept during 

 the botanical exploration of Peru and Chili made by him in 

 company with J. Pa von (1777-83), his important manuscripts 

 " Sobre Quina " with other autographs, and their joint original 

 descriptions of the Plants met with, were purchased at the sale of 

 A. B. Lambert's library. 



Z. The first book recorded as purchased by the Zoological 

 Department was H. Milne Edwards' " Histoire naturelle des 

 Crustaces." 



1843. 



B. and Z. The original water-colour drawings made by 

 Ferdinand L. Bauer, the artist who accompanied Flinders on his 

 " Voyage to Terra Australis " in 1801-3, comprising 202 drawings 

 of Plants and 49 of Animals/"" were presented. 



1845. 



In the estimates for 1845 there appears for the first time a 

 sum of money definitely allotted for the purchase of books for a 

 departmental library, that of Mineralogy, which then included 

 the present Departments of Geology and of Mineralogy. The 

 following year it is reported that " the books purchased . . . have 

 all been catalogued and bound with a distinctive ornamental mark 

 on each volume." This grant was annually renewed. 



Among other accessions for the year were : 



Z. 670 foil, of water-colour drawings by native artists of the 



* Not transferred from B to Z till 1887. 



