10 Libraries. 



1867-68. 



G. The collection of drawings formed by Hugh Falconer 

 in connection with his " Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis," and other 

 writings on Indian Palaeontology, was presented. It included 

 sketches for 20 unpublished plates to the " Fauna," sketches for 

 18 plates of Ruminant remains, with manuscript explanations, 

 and more than 220 drawings in water-colour, pen-and-ink, and 

 pencil, by various artists (e.g. Dinkel, Kaup, etc.), with photo- 

 graphs, illustrating vertebrate remains, chiefly Indian. The 

 whole are mounted and bound in two volumes. 



1869. 



Z. The Rev. W. Kirby's manuscript Catalogue of British 

 Staphylinidae, in 3 vols., was presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



1874. 



B. The original drawings and manuscript notes, with corre- 

 spondence accompanying the herbarium of William Wilson, of 

 Warrington, were purchased. 



262 original drawings of Irish Lichens were purchased with 

 the herbarium of Isaac Carroll. 



1875. 



B. Considerable additions were made to the Botanical Depart- 

 ment collections of drawings ; 1 ,300 original water-colour drawings 

 of Fungi, by W. G. Smith, and coloured engravings of upwards 

 of 4,000 species of Algse being purchased. 



Z. A large number of zoological works and drawings (includ- 

 ing 109 original water-colour drawings and pen-and-ink sketches 

 of Fish, with 106 of Insects, Crustacea, and Arachnida, made by 

 Arthur Adams during his voyage as naturalist on the Samarang, 

 also the 65 original water-colour drawings of Chelonia, by J. De 

 Carle Sowerby, used for the illustrations in T. Bell's " Monograph 

 of the Testudinata," and Sowerby and Lear's " Tortoises "), which 

 had belonged to Dr. J. E. Gray, were presented by his widow. 



1876. 



B. The transcripts, by two daughters of Mr. Dawson Turner, 

 of Sir Joseph Banks' journal kept on his voyage with Capt. Cook 



