30 Libraries. 



1893 by the executors of Sir B. Owen, in whose collection of drawings 

 they are (L). 



One of the 25 copies of vol. i of A. B. Lambert's " Genus Pinus," 

 coloured by him, is in the Museum (B). 



Bennett (JOHN JOSEPH) [1801-1876] 



Appointed assistant to Robert Brown when the Banksian Herbarium 

 was transferred to the British Museum in 1827, Bennett succeeded 

 Brown as Keeper of the Botanical Department in 1858. Brown had 

 bequeathed to him a number of books and MSS., which remained in the 

 Department and were presented to the Trustees in 1876 by Mrs. Bennett 

 (B). 



The original pencil drawings by J. and C. Curtis for Bennett and 

 Brown's " Planta Javanica rariores," with proof engravings and hand- 

 coloured proofs after letters of the plates are preserved (B). 



Berkeley (MILES JOSEPH) [1803-1889] 



Berkeley, the distinguished mycologist, presented 530 original water- 

 colour drawings done by James Sowerby for the " English Fungi," in 

 1876 (B). 



A series of his letters to C. E. Broome was bequeathed with the 

 latter's correspondence in 1886 (B). Berkeley's own correspondence was 

 presented in 1890 (B). 



Blair (PATRICK) [ft. 1706-1728] 



Copies of the correspondence and a " Catalogue of the discoveries . . . 

 made by Dr. P. Blair," botanist and surgeon, form the Banksian MS., 

 No. 35 (B). 



Blake (JOHN BRADBY) [1745-1773] 



Sent out in 1766 to Canton as one of the Hon. East India Company's 

 supercargoes, Blake devoted himself to Natural Science. A volume of 

 drawings of Chinese Plants made under his superintendence by a native 

 artist form the Banksian MS., No. 12. 



Bloxam (ANDREW) [1801-1878] 



Bloxam went as naturalist on the Blonde in 1824-25, and on his 

 return entered the church, becoming Eector of Twycross, in Leicester- 

 shire, and afterwards of Harborough Magna, in Warwickshire. His 

 manuscript notes on the Cellular Cryptograms of Leicestershire, and his 

 Correspondence (forming 1 vol.), were presented by his son in 1878 (B). 



Bolton (JAMES) [ft. 1775-1795] 



The self-taught naturalist of Halifax, Yorks., J. Bolton, etched the 

 illustrations for his own works. 



His original drawings for the plates of his " Filices Britannicse " form 

 the Banksian MS., No. 36 (B). 



25 original water-colour drawings of Fungi, executed 1788-1794, were 

 purchased in 1892 (B). 



50 original water-colour drawings of Flowers from Nature, made 

 1785-87, were purchased in 1894 (B). 



Botanical Society of London. 



The manuscript of the " Proceedings," 1724-26, of this Society, 

 which was a distinct Society from the later one bearing the same name 

 (1836-57), is preserved in the Museum (B). 



