Libraries. 3 1 



Brady (HENRY BOWMAN) [1835-1891] 



Brady made a special study of the Foraminifera. A copy of 

 Soldaui's rare work, " Testaceographise ac Zoophytographise parvje et 

 microscopic* tomus primus ( secundus)" was at Brady's request 

 presented to the Museum by the Royal Society in 1891, his own copy 

 remaining in their possession (L). 



Brewer (SAMUEL) [fl. 1700-1742] 



As botanical collector for Dillenius and others, Brewer made a 

 collecting tour through Wales. A copy in Solander's handwriting of his 

 unpublished " Botanical Journey through Wales in . . ., 1726 and 1727," 

 forms No. 95 of the Banksian MSS. (B> 



Broome (CHRISTOPHER EDMUND) [1812-1886] 



C. E. Brcome, the mycologist, bequeathed his books and pamphlets 



to the number of 212 and the whole of his mycological correspondence 



with his Herbarium in 1886 (B). 



A further series of his letters addressed to M. J. Berkeley was presented 



with the latter's correspondence in 1890 (B). 



Brown (JOHN), of Stanway [1780-1859] 



J. Brown was one of the pioneers in Pleistocene palaeontology. His 

 autograph notes, chiefly relating to English Post-Pliocene deposits with 

 lists of the contained fossils, were presented in 1898 (G). 



Brown (ROBERT) [1773-1858] 



Brown accompanied the expedition under Flinders to Australia; as 

 botanist ; in 1810 he succeeded Dryander as librarian to Sir Joseph Banks ; 

 while from 1827 to 1857 he was Keeper of the Botanical Department. 



He bequeathed to the Trustees two portfolios of drawings by Ferdinand 

 L. Bauer " to be placed with the other productions of the same artist," 

 and to his successor, J. J. Bennett, some books and pamphlets with 

 numerous MSS., which were presented to the Trustees in 1876 by Mrs. 

 Bennett (B). The more important of these were, his Diary from 1800 

 to 1803, a Flora of Madeira, a List of Gaelic Plant Names, and Descrip- 

 tions of Ferns, all in his own handwriting. 



Some of his autograph descriptions of Plants in two volumes were 

 presented in 1888 by Mr. J. Britten (B). 



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

 Brown's " Plante Javanicaj rariores " are preserved, and also Brown's 

 correspondence in 3 vols. (B). 



Browne (PATRICK) [1720?-! 790] 



While practising medicine in the West Indies, Browne studied their 

 natural history, especially that of Jamaica. 



An autograph "Catalogue of the Plants of the English Sugar 

 Colonies " forms No. 70 of the Banksian MSS. (B). 



Bruch (PHILIPP) [1781-1847] 



Bruch, who was an apothecary and botanist at Zweibriicken, devoted 

 much time to the study of Mosses. 



219 of his original pencil drawings of Mosses used in illustrating the 

 " Bryologia Europrea " were purchased in 1883 (B). 



