48 Libraries. 



A series of 248 original water-colour drawings of Plants of British 

 Guiana was presented in 1847 in part by Sir Robert himself, and in 

 part by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Earl Grey (B). 



Seyffert (HEINRICHUS CHRISTOPHORUS) 



133 original water-colour drawings of Fungi, bv H. C. Seyffert, a 

 physician at Possneck, form the Banksian MS. No. 65 (B.) 



Seymer (HENRY) [1745-1800] 



A copy of Cramer's " Papillons exotiques " which had belonged to 

 H. Seymer of Hanford, Dorset, who had added the Linnean names and 

 retouched several of the coloured plates, was presented by A. B. Lambert 

 in 1841 (Z). 



Shaw (GEORGE) [1751-1813] 



185 of his original water-colour, pen-and-ink and pencil sketches, by 

 G. Shaw, Keeper of the Natural History Section of the British Museum, 

 1807-13, were presented in 1896 (L). 



Sherard (WILLIAM) [1659-1728] 



W. Sherard, the Botanist who was Consul at Smyrna, contributed 

 some notes and observations on the first two volumes of Ray's " Historia 

 Plantarum" and his MSS. endorsed by Ray, form the Banksian MS. 

 No. 80 (B). 



Simpson (MARTIN) [1799-1892] 



M. Simpson, the Geologist, was author of several works on the 

 geology and palaeontology of Yorkshire. 



His original drawings of Belemnites for his book on " The Fossils of 

 the Yorkshire Lias," consisting of 8 unpublished plates, were presented 

 in 1899 (G). 



Sloane (Sir HANS) [1660-1753] 



The original manuscript catalogues of the natural history collections 

 of Sir H. Sloane, 15 volumes in all, the copy of his "Voyage to the 

 Islands Madera, Barbados . . . and Jamaica," &c., annotated in his own 

 hand-writing, the original drawings for the plates to that work (bound up 

 with the specimens from which they were made in the 8 volumes of 

 Sloane's Jamaica Herbarium) and his copy of Ray's " Historia Plantarum," 

 with marginal references to his herbarium, and autograph addenda, may 

 be said to have formed the nucleus of the present Natural History 

 Library (B, G, M). 



Some works containing manuscript notes by J. Petiver probably once 

 formed part of his library (B L). 



A series of pen-and-ink drawings with autograph descriptions by 

 G. J. Camellus, entitled " Descriptiones Fruticum et Arborum Luzonis," 

 etc., from Sir H. Sloane's library, was transferred from the MSS. 

 Department in 1884. 



Smith (CHRISTIAN) [1785-1816] 



A manuscript biography of Christian Smith, Prof, of Botany at the 

 University of Christiania, who travelled in the British Isles, to Madeira 

 and Tenerif and lost his life on Tuckey's Congo Expedition in 1816, is 

 preserved in the Museum (B). 



