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and pencil drawings of the Animals and Plants oOserved on that occasion, 

 filling 4 volumes, form the Banksian MSS. No. 6-9 (B and Z). 



Franks (Sir AUGUSTUS WOLLASTON) [1826-1897] 



In 1880 a copy of W. Smith's large Geological Map of England and 

 Wales (1815) (G) was presented by Sir A. W. Franks. 



Gerard (JOHN) [1545-1612] 



Besides his " Herbal," Gerard wrote a " Catalogus Arborum . . . ac 

 Plautarum ... in horto J. Gerardi . . . nascentium . . . 1596," of which 

 rare work a copy in manuscript forms the Banksian MS., No. 89 (B). 



Goodenough (SAMUEL), Bishop of Carlisle [1743-1827] 



The original drawings for the plates to Bishop Goodenough's " Obser- 

 servations on the British species of Carex" in the Transactions of the 

 Linna^an Society, vol. ii. and iii., are preserved in the Museum (B). 



Gray (JOHN EDWARD) [1800-1875] 



Keeper of the Zoological Department from 1840 to 1875, Gray 

 presented in 1861 to that Department 89 volumes of Zoological works 

 and pamphlets, including the manuscript notes by C. B. Darwin, T. Bell, 

 and himself on the Keptiles and Amphibia collected during the voyage of 

 the Beagle. He was a constant donor to his department thereafter (Z). 



In 1865 he presented the MSS. and botanical drawings of E. A. 

 Salisbury (B). 



On his death in 1875 his widow presented many other works and 

 drawings, of which last the most noteworthy are the original water-colour 

 and pen-and-ink drawings of animals made by A. Adams on the voyage 

 of the Samarang, and the 65 original water-colour drawings of Chelonia 

 by J. de C. Sowerby used for the illustrations in T. Bell's " Monograph 

 of the Testudinata," and Sowerby and Lear's " Tortoises " (Z). 



Gronovius or Gronow (LAURENTIUS THEODORUS) [1730-1777] 

 Gronow was a Senator of Leyden and one of the best ichthyologists 

 of his day. His collection, and a manuscript description of it illustrated 

 by numerous original drawings, were purchased at an auction in London 

 in 1853 (Z). The manuscript was afterwards printed and issued in 1854 

 as one of the Museum catalogues. 



Hansen (GEORGE) 



A number of original drawings of monstrous flowers of cultivated 

 Orchids, by G. Hansen, Superintendent of the Foothill Agricultural 

 Experiment Station of the University of California, were purchased about 

 1890 (B). 



Hardwicke (THOMAS), Major-General in the Indian Army 



[ -1835] 



Hardwicke formed an extensive collection of illustrations of Asiatic 

 zoology, besides making himself some botanical drawings and notes. The 

 greater part of the collection is the work of native artists; but among 

 the drawings of Fish (in addition to one of the four sets of drawings of 

 Chinese Fish by a native artist that J. Eeeves caused to be prepared) 

 are included, some by Major Neeld, others by Major Farquhar, and 

 copies from drawings by Buchanan Hamilton. There is also a series of 

 drawings of Birds by T. W. Lewin. 



