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1859. 



B. The collection of more than 2,500 original water-colour 

 drawings by James Sowerby for the illustrations to his " English 

 Botany " were purchased with his herbarium. These have been 

 mounted on sheets, beside copies of the finished plates from the 

 first and third editions. 



1861. 



B. The unpublished autograph Journals kept by L. A. 

 Deschamps during his voyage as naturalist on La Recherche, 

 under Entrecasteaux, and during his subsequent travels in Java, 

 with materials for a Flora Javanica, water-colour sketches, and 

 other notes and memoranda, as well as 1 1 1 water-colour drawings 

 of specimens of Java Plants, made by, or for Dr. F. Noronha, 

 were presented by J. R. Reeves. 



Z. Deschamps' original sketches and autograph descriptions 

 of the Mammalia of Java, presented with the foregoing. 



89 volumes of zoological works and pamphlets, including 

 manuscript notes by C. R. Darwin and T. Bell on the Reptiles 

 and Amphibia collected during the voyage of the, Beagle, were 

 presented by Dr. J. E. Gray, at that time Keeper of the 

 Department. 



1862. 



B. A set of original water-colour drawings by James De 

 Carle Sowerby and J. W. Salter for the illustrations to vol. i. iv. 

 of the Supplement to James Sowerby 's "English Botany" were 

 purchased, and incorporated with those for the main work that 

 had been acquired in 1859. 



1863. 



Z. An autograph MS. of the Rev. W. Kirby, the entomo- 

 logist, entitled, "Musseum Entomologicum Barhamense. Pars 

 prima," was presented by the Entomological Society. 



1865. 



B. The botanical drawings and MSS. of R. A. Salisbury 

 were presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



1866. 



B. 29 sheets of original drawings by James De Carle Sowerby, 

 from which the illustrations to Dawson Turner's " Muscologiae 

 Hibernicse Spicilegium " were engraved, were purchased. 



