Libraries. 47 



Kuiz Lopez (HIPOLITO) [1754-1815] 



The Spanish botanist, Ruiz Lopez, was appointed to conduct an 

 expedition for the botanical exploration of Peru and Chili in 1777. He 

 was accompanied by J. Pavon, and the two returned in 1788. 



Their joint manuscript descriptions of the Plants procured, which 

 formed the basis for their " Flora Peruviana et Chilensis," with Ruiz 

 Lopez's autograph " Relacion historica del Viage " and his important 

 manuscripts on Cinchona, were purchased at the sale of the Lambert 

 Library in 1842 (B). 



Russell (ANNA), Mrs. [1807-1876] 



730 of her original water-colour drawings of the higher Fungi were 

 bequeathed by Mrs. Russell in 1876, and 5 more were presented in 

 1886 (B). 



Salisbury (RICHAKD ANTHONY) [1761-1829] 



R. A. Salisbury, the botanist, left his property to W. J. Burchell the 

 explorer, on whose decease in 1863 the MSS. and drawings passed into 

 the hands of Dr. J. E. Gray, by whom they were given to the Museum 

 (B) in 1865. 



Salisbury's notes and drawings of Ericaceous Plants were transferred 

 from the Royal Gardens at Kew in 1881 (B). 



Salter (JOHN WILLIAM) [1820-1869] 



J. W. Salter, the paleontologist, was apprenticed at the age of 15 

 to James De Carle Sowerby and when working with him prepared illus- 

 trations for the supplement to his English Botany. These original 

 drawings were acquired with Sowerby's in 1862 (B). 



Saunders (WILLIAM WILSON) [1809-1879] 



A number of drawings and engravings of Plants collected by W. W. 

 Saunders were acquired in 1880 (B). 



Scharf (GEORGE) [1788-1860] 



A number of original drawings, chiefly of fossil vertebrate remains, 

 by G. Scharf, form part of the Owen Collection of Drawings, presented 

 in 1893 (G- and L). 



Schleiden (MATTHIAS JAKOB) [1804-1881] 



A series of original water-colour and pen-and-ink drawings of Plants, by 

 M. J. Schleiden, Professor of Botany at Jena, with manuscript descriptions 

 of them, the whole bound in 9 volumes, were purchased in 1886 (B). 



Schmidt (JOHANN GAEL) [1793-1850] 



The Museum possesses an autograph work by J. C. Schmidt, the 

 Curator of the Shuttleworth Herbarium at Bern, entitled : " Beschreibung 

 der innlandischen Arten von Cuscuta " (B). 



Schomburgk (Sir ROBERT HERMANN) [1804-1865] 



Sir R. H. Schomburgk, the traveller, acted as Commissioner for 



delineating the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela in 



1841-43. 



A manuscript of his memoir " On the Forest Trees of British Guiana 



and their uses," etc., read before the British Association in 1844, and 



subsequently to the Linnean Society, and printed by that Society in its 



proceedings, is preserved in the Museum (B). 



