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incorporated with the general herbarium, but no specimens can 

 now be identified as coming therefrom. 



THE SLOANE HERBARIUM. 



This extensive herbarium, containing as it does the results of 

 some of the earliest botanical investigations of China, India, 

 and the New World, is of the greatest historical value. The 

 plants are catalogued in two copies of Ray's " Historia Plant- 

 arum " preserved in the Department, so that they can be easily 

 consulted. 



The plants collected by Sloane himself in Jamaica occupy 

 eight volumes, in which are included the drawings from which 

 the plates in the " Natural History of Jamaica " were made ; 

 Sloane's own copy of this work, with his MS. notes, accompanies 

 the collection. Among the principal contents of the herbarium 

 may be mentioned : the plants collected by James Cunningham 

 in China, in 1698-1703 ; those from the Philippines, by Kamel, 

 sent to Petiver in 1701, and described in the Appendix to Ray's 

 " Historia Plantarum," vol. iii ; the collections of Petiver and 

 Plukenet, containing a large number of the plants figured and 

 described in their works ; American plants from Banister, 

 Bartram, Catesby, Houstoun, Krieg and Vernon ; the collections 

 of Hermann and Oldenland, from the Cape of Good Hope ; 

 Kaempfer's plants from Japan (1691); plants from Jussieu, 

 Tournefort and Vaillant ; and those of most of the contemporary 

 English botanists Buddie (an important British Herbarium), 

 Doody, Philip Miller, Merrett, Ray, Sherard, Uvedale ; and from 

 the gardens of Badminton, Oxford and Westminster. 



THE BANKSIAN HERBARIUM. 



The herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) is the 

 foundation of the General Herbarium. At the time of its 

 acquisition it was one of the most important in existence not 

 only on account of its extent, but as containing a large number 

 of types of published species and, owing to the freedom of access 

 which was allowed to it, one of the most frequently cited in 

 botanical works. Besides the invaluable collections made in 

 Malaya, Brazil, South Africa, Polynesia, Australia and New 

 Zealand, by Banks and Solander, in their voyage round the 

 world with Cook in 1768-71, it contains the plants collected 



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