44 Libraries. 



Noronha (FERNANDO) [ -1787] 



The Spanish botanist F. Noronha or Noroila, who did much at 

 Manilla to the Koyal Botanic Gardens, subsequently travelled in Java and 

 Madagascar. 



A set of 111 water-colour drawings of Java Plants made by him, or 

 for him, of which there is a similar set in the Royal Library at Berlin, 

 were included among the MSS. and drawings of L. A. Deschamps, that 

 were presented by J. E. Eeeves in 1861 (B). 



Owen (Sir RICHARD), KC.B. [1804-1892] 



Sir E. Owen was Superintendent of the Natural History Departments 

 of the British Museum, 1856-83. 



In 1893, Sir E. Owen's executors presented a large series of MSS. and 

 original drawings including : 



The original autograph notes made while dissecting the Pearly Nautilus, 

 the successive drafts for portions of the memoir, the author's interleaved 

 copy of the completed memoir with his autograph notes and other 

 memoranda as well as the original water-colour drawings from which the 

 plates were engraved, and proof impressions of the plates (L). 



The set of his manuscript notes and synopsis of lectures from 1828 to 

 1864 (L). 



Notes and sketches of remains of fossil Eeptilia in various Museums, 

 made when preparing his British Association Eeports on the British 

 Fossil Eeptilia (G-). 



A set of original water-colour drawings by W. Clift, Franz Bauer, 

 Mrs. Marsh and others for the illustrations to Sir E. Home's papers (L). 



A very large collection of original drawings by various artists 

 {e.g., G. Scharf, J. Dinkel, J. J. Kamp, Sir E. Landseer, J. Wolf) in 

 water-colour, pen-and-ink and pencil, with photographs, all of zoological 

 and palajozoological subjects, mostly fossil Vertebrata, very many being 

 the originals for illustrations in Sir E. Owen's own works (L). 



This collection though mounted and arranged has not yet been 

 catalogued. 



Park (MUNGO) [1771-1806] 



Afterwards celebrated as an African explorer, Mungo Park went in 

 1792 as surgeon on board the Worcester to Sumatra, where he made 

 botanical and zoological observations. 20 water-colour drawings of Fish 

 executed at the time with manuscript descriptions of six of the species 

 were probably included in the Banksian Collection (Z).* 



Parkinson (GEORGE S.) 



In 1896, a series of 185 sketches in water-colour, pen-and-ink and 

 pencil by G. Shaw, the zoologist, as well as a portrait of S. Parkinson 

 the artist (L), were presented by Mr. G. S. Parkinson. 



Parkinson (SYDNEY) [17451-1771] 



Parkinson accompanied Banks as draughtsman on Cook's first voyage 

 round the world (1768-71). 



40 water-colour drawings of animals, mostly on vellum, made from 

 specimens or drawings executed in India, by order of J. G. Loten, and 

 including the originals of some of the figures in Pennant's "Indian 

 Zoology " and " Quadrupeds," formed the Banksian MS. No. 20 (Z). 



* Cf. Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. (1797), pp. 33-38. 



