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The original drawings for No. 2-4 of Dickson's " Fasciculus Plantarum 

 Cryptogamarum Britannia," form the Banksian MS. No. 21 (B). 



The original water-colour drawings for the " English Botany," over 

 2,500 in number, were purchased in 1859 (B). 



The original water-colour drawings for his " English Fungi," were 

 presented in 1876, and have been incorporated in the collection of 

 drawings of Fungi (B). 



Sowerby (JAMES DE CABLE) [1787-1871] 



James De Carle Sowerby was well known both as a naturalist and 

 artist. 



His original water-colour drawings for the illustrations to the " Sup- 

 plement to English Botany " were purchased in 1862 (B). 



29 plates of original water-colour drawings of mosses, dated 1803, 

 from which the plates to Dawson Turner's " Muscologiai Hibernicse 

 Spicilegium " were engraved, were purchased in 1866 (B). 



The set of 65 original water-colour drawings of Chelonia to illustrate 

 J. Bell's "Monograph of the Testudinata," and subsequently utilised for 

 Sowerby and Lear's " Tortoises," was presented in 1875 (Z). 



Spaendonck (GERBIT VAN) [1746-1822] 



70 water-colour drawings of Flowers after Nature, by Gr. Spaendonck, 

 the celebrated botanical artist at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, were 

 purchased in 1885 (B). 



Stephens (WILLIAM) [fl. 1718-1732] 



A " Catalogus Plantarum in Horto Dubliniensi," in part in the hand- 

 writing of W. Stephens, Botanist and Lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin, 

 forms the Banksian MS. No. 92 (B). 



Sweet (ROBERT) [1783-1835] 



The 56 original water-colour drawings by E. D. Smith for Sweet's 

 " Flora Australasica " are preserved in the Museum (B). 



Thunberg (CABL PEHB) [1743-1822] 



An autograph " Flora Capensis " made some time prior to 1782 by the 

 celebrated Swedish naturalist Thunberg (that is of interest as showing 

 the state of the work at that time as contrasted with its extension when 

 first published in 1820), with a transcript in Dryander's handwriting, were 

 among the Banksian MSS. (B). 



Tilli (MICHAEL ANGELUS) [1655-1740] 



An autograph " Specimen Plantarum qua? in Horto Medico Sapientias 

 Pisanfe locisque finitimis extant" 1713-30 (3 vol.), by M. A. Tilli, Pro- 

 fessor of Botany at Pisa, forms the Banksian MS. [No. Ill], (B). 



Topley (WILLIAM) [1841-1894] 



A set of the six views and geological sections of various parts of 

 England and Wales, made by W. Smith in 1817-19 (G-), was presented 

 in 1887 by W. Topley, the Geologist. 



Tournefort (JOSEPH PITTON DE) [1656-1708] 



A copy of the manuscript of the celebrated French Botanist Tournefort, 

 entitled "Catalogue des Plantes que M. P. de Tournefort trouva dans 

 ses voyages d'Espagne et de Portugal," forms the Banksian MS., No. 82 

 (B). 



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