46 Libraries. 



Ray (JOHN) [1627-1705] 



88 autograph letters of the celebrated naturalist, J. Ray, and his 

 correspondents, were presented in 1884 (B). 



The original MS. of Derham's Life of Kay was acquired during the 

 same year (B). 



Reeves (JOHN) [1774-1856] 



J. Reeves, when Inspector of Tea at the East India Company's 

 establishment in Canton, made careful study of the natural history and 

 resources of the country. lie employed native artists in making water- 

 colour drawings of the Animals and Plants. 



521 of these drawings of Animals (Z) and 654 of the Plants (B), were 

 presented in 1877 with MSS. notes concerning the drawings of Fish, of 

 which Sir J. Richardson states (Rept. Brit. Assoc., 1845, p. 188), that 

 four sets were made, one of which was given to Major-Gen. T. Hardwicke 

 whose collection of drawings was bequeathed to the Museum in 1835. 



Reeves (JOHN RUSSELL) [1804-1877] 



J. R. Reeves, the son of John Reeves, was in Hon. East India 

 Company's service at Canton for thirty years and devoted to botany and 

 horticulture. 



He presented in 1861 the unpublished autograph journals of L. A. 

 Deschamps, kept on the voyage of the Recherche in search of La Perouse, 

 and during subsequent travels in Java, with the notes for a Flora Javanica 

 and the original sketches of Scenery, Animals and Plants, including 111 

 water-colour drawings of Java Plants by, or made for F. Noronha (B, Z). 



On his death, Miss Reeves presented the collection of Chinese drawings 

 which her father, J. Reeves, had formed (B Z). 



Roemer (JOHANN JACOB) [1763-1819] 



210 original drawings, formerly the property of Dr. Roemer, were 

 purchased in 1883 (B). 



Rothschild (Hon. LIONEL WALTER) [1868- ] 



Life-size photographs of Apteryx and of giant Tortoises were presented 

 in 1897 and subsequent years (Z G L) by the Hon. L. W. Rothschild. 



Roxburgh (WILLIAM) [1759-1815] 



The botanist W. Roxburgh was surgeon on the Madras establishment 

 of the Hon. East India Company and afterwards Superintendent of the 

 Calcutta Botanic Garden. 



The manuscript copy of his "Flora Indica," containing autograph 

 notes by him and by Robert Brown that are not in the printed edition ; 

 an index to the whole of his botanical MSS. ; 14 water-colour drawings 

 of Malayan Plants, with one of a Cycas from the Moluccas ; and some 

 autograph descriptions, with 22 coloured drawings of Indian Palms and 

 the drawings of the dissections, used in his "Plants of the Coast of 

 Coromandel," are in the Museum (B) : the last-named was purchased 

 in 1884. 



Royal Society of London 



The Royal Society presented, in 1886, 34 miscellaneous works, and, in 

 1891, 227 geological and palzeontological pamphlets (G-), as well as, by 

 request of H. B. Brady, a copy of Soldani's rare work " Testaceographise 

 ac Zoophytographiaj . . . tomus primus ( secundus)" (L). 



