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3. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE MORE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTORS 

 TO THE COLLECTION OP PLANTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF 

 BOTANY.* 



Abel (CLARKE). [1780-1826] 



Chinese plants in Herb. Banks, " the only part of his herbariurn'that 

 escaped the wreck of the Alceste," including types of the new species 

 described by Brown in the " Narrative " of Abel's journey into the interior 

 of China. 



Adair (PATRICK), [fl. 1696] 



Plants from the Cape and Johanna Island in Herb. Sloane. 



Afzelius (ADAM). [1750-1837] 



Plants from Sierra Leone in Herb. Banks, and mosses in Herb. Hampe. 



Ahlberg (A.). 



1625 species of Scandinavian plants, purchased 1871. 



Aitchison (JAMES EDWARD TIERNEY). [1836-98] 



422 species collected in the Kurrum Valley, Afghanistan, 1879, 

 presented 1880 ; 196 species collected in Afghanistan, 1880, presented 

 1881 ; set of plants collected in Afghan Boundary Expedition, 1884-85, 

 presented 1887. 



Alton (WILLIAM) [1731-93] and his son WILLIAM TOWNSEND 



Alton [1766-1849] 



Were successively Directors of the Royal Gardens, Kew (1759-1841). 

 In that capacity they sent to Banks, or to his librarians, Solander and 

 Dryander, the novelties grown in the Gardens ; these were described by the 

 two last-named. The novelties were published in the " Hortus Kewensis " 

 (ed. i, 1789 ; ed. ii, 1810), and the types of these are in the Banksian 

 Herbarium; the original MS. descriptions are also preserved in the 

 Department. The younger Aiton also presented in 1839 a collection of 

 plants formed during the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur to S. America. 



Alexander (WILLIAM THOMAS). [1818-72] 



Mosses of Chusan, etc. (1845-46), acquired with Herb. Wilson. 



Allen (0. D.). 



219 plants from the Cascade Mountains, Washington, purchased 1899. 



* Only collections amounting to a hundred or more specimens are 

 included in this list, except in the case of smaller collections of special 

 interest. 



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