38 Libraries. 



The collection is composed of the following sets : 



22 original water-colour drawings of Plants made in the north-western 

 provinces of India in 1796, with autograph descriptions (B). 



56 water-colour sketches of Plants from the neighbourhood of Pletten- 

 burg Bay, S. Africa, by "C. H. W." and "I. W. B.," with autograph 

 descriptions by Major-General Hardwicke, 1812 (B). 



Water-colour drawings of Indian and Chinese animals (Z), viz., 194 

 Mammals, 1,230 Birds, 65 Birds'-nests and eggs, 366 Eeptiles, 813 Fish, 

 545 Insects, 94 Insect larvas, 58 Insects of Nepaul, 97 Arachnida, 233 

 Crustacea, 97 Mollusca and Radiata. 



Water-colour drawings of animals of various countries (Z), viz., 35 

 Vertebrata and Invertebrata, 118 Mammals, 429 Birds, and 76 Birds by 

 T. W. Lewin. 



These sets, which are bound in 32 volumes, were bequeathed by 

 Hardwicke with his specimens to the Museum in 1835, a sum of money 

 being at the same time left to defray the expense of publishing the 

 scientific description of them. The latter intention was, however, frus- 

 trated by a Chancery suit, instituted soon after his death. Some of the 

 drawings were used for plates in J. E. Gray's "Illustrations of Indian 

 Zoology," and Jardine and Selby's " Illustrations of Ornithology." 



Hodgson (BRYAN HOUGHTON) [1800-1894] 



The Indian Civilian and Orientalist, Hodgson, was appointed Assistant 

 Resident and, later, Resident in Nepaul. He made large zoological 

 collections in Nepaul, supplemented by water-colour drawings of the 

 Vertebrata, by native artists. These were sent home and presented to 

 the Museum in 1845 and 1858 ; the drawings number 1,319 in 7 volumes 

 (Z). 



Hooker (Sir JOSEPH DALTON), G. C.S.I. [1817- ] 

 Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, from 1865 to 1885. 

 Hooker started on his career as Surgeon and Naturalist on the Erebus, 

 under Sir J. Ross, during the expedition to the Antarctic regions in 

 1839-43. Autograph lists of the plants collected, with notes and drawings 

 made during the early part of the expedition (B), and 28 water-colour 

 drawings and pencil sketches of Antarctic fish (Z), some of which were 

 utilised by Sir J. Richardson in illustrating his" zoology of the voyage, 

 are preserved in the Museum. 



Hooker (Sir WILLIAM JACKSON) [1785-1865] 

 Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, from 1841 to 1865. 

 The original water-colour drawings by Franz A. Bauer for the plates 



to Hooker's " Genera Filicum " are preserved in the Museum (B). 



Horsfield (THOMAS) [1713-1859] 



Horsfield practised as a physician in Java and Sumatra from 1799 

 to 1819, when he became Keeper of the East India Company's Museum 

 in London. 



His manuscript lists of Javanese Plants, with letters and 33 original 

 pen-and-ink sketches showing dissections of the new or doubtful genera, 

 1814-51, that accompanied his collection, are in the Museum (B). 



Houstoun (WILLIAM) [1695-1733] 



Houstoun practised as a surgeon in the West Indies. His manu- 

 script lists and descriptions of West Indian Plants passed, after the death 

 of Philip Miller with whom he corresponded, into the hands of Sir J. 



