32 Libraries. 



Buchanan, afterwards Hamilton (FRANCIS) [1762-1829] 



Buchanan went out in 1794 as surgeon in the East India Company's 

 Service. In the following year he accompanied the mission to Ava ; 

 his autograph descriptions with 53 drawings of the plants he observed 

 form the Banksian MSS., No. 18 and 19 (B). 



Buonamici (GIOVANNI FRANCESCO) 



A transcript of Dr. Buonamici's original MS. " De Plantis quse in 

 Melita? et Gaulo observantur " (written about 1670), marked "Ex 

 Biblioth. Boisy, MS. No. 21 " is preserved (B). This work was printed 

 as " Pugillus Meliteus," by F. P. Cavallini in 1689 under his own name, 

 and reprinted by Briickmann in 1737 ; in both cases the Maltese names 

 which appear in the MS. were omitted. 



Burbidge (FREDERICK WILLIAM) [1847- ] 



Burbidge travelled in the Eastern Archipelago, paying especial 

 attention to the botany of those regions. 



115 original sketches, some coloured, made in Borneo, of Orchids, 

 Pitcher-plants, etc., were purchased in 1886 (B). 



Burgis (THOMAS) [fl. 1776] 



Burgis was employed by Banks to make finished drawings of Plants 

 from sketches by S. Parkinson, J. F. Miller, and others. Some of these 

 are among the Banksian Collection of Drawings (B). 



Caesalpinus (ANDREAS) [1519-1603] 



A manuscript of the celebrated Italian physician and natural 

 philosopher Caesalpinus, entitled " A. Cajsalpini epistola de methodo Eei 

 Herbarie prafixa horto suo sicco qui mine Florentise in Bibliotheca D. 

 comitis E. Pandulphini adservatur," Pisis, 1563, is in the Museum (B). 



Caley (GEORGE) [ -1829] 



Caley, who was at first employed in his father's stables, was led by 

 his desire to know more about the herbs used for veterinary purposes, to 

 study botany, and was later sent out by Sir Joseph Banks to collect 

 in New South Wales. His autograph journals and descriptions of the 

 Plants collected formed an item of the Banksian Collection (B). 



Camellus, or Kamel (GEORGIUS JOSEPHUS) [1661-1706] 



Kamel went as Jesuit missionary to the Philippines. 



A volume of pen-and-ink drawings with autograph descriptions entitled, 

 " Descriptiones Fruticum et Arborum Luzonis," formerly in Sir Hans 

 Sloane's library, was transferred from the MSS. Department in 1884 (B). 



Carmichael (DUGALD) [1772-1840] 



Two MSS. of D. Carmichael are in the Museum, viz. : 

 [Autograph] Catalogue of Plants collected in Mauritius and Bourbon 

 in 1812-1814 (B). 



[Autograph] Gramma Capensia [and descriptions of Cape Plants] (B). 



Carpenter (WILLIAM BENJAMIN) [1813-1885] 



For some years before his death, the well-known naturalist, Dr. W. B. 

 Carpenter, had been collecting materials for a Monograph on " Eozoon" 

 These included 129 water-colour drawings, by A. J. Hollick and C. 

 Berjean, with 116 photographs and prints, now mounted and bound in 



