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sequence, since Forster' s genus Blackburnea is far more 

 certain. 



Tour. Aytonia is beyond question a species of 

 Campanula, but I prefer the genus Aytonia of Thunberg 

 (from the Cape of Good Hope), which, indeed, I have not 

 yet seen with my own eyes. 



You imagine Banks' Herbarium to be the largest in 

 anyone's possession, but I should like to claim for mine 

 that it is twice as large. 



If you have a Leea, which I named after you some 

 time ago, please lend me the specimen. 



I am very grieved about Ellis, but my own affairs 

 have the prior claim on me. Farewell, and once more, 

 farewell. 



Gael Linné. 



Mr. Lee was so good as to allow the Museum to acquire the 

 collection of Watling Drawings, and they will always be a 

 valuable possession of the British Museum, not so much for 

 their artistic merit as for their historical connection with 

 James Lee and John Latham. 



To the pictures of birds is appended a list of the species as 

 determined by Latham, and the scientific names are in his 

 handwriting, as vouched for by a note (probably in the hand- 

 writing of James Lee, the owner of the volume) : — " This 

 catalogue was wrote by Dr. Latham, author of the ( General 

 Synopsis of Birds.' " 



In my portion of the ' History of the Collections,' I have 

 given a critical résumé of the Watling drawings, and have 

 succeeded in identifying the species in nearly every instance. 

 The origin of Latham's Australian species in his second 

 i Supplement' to the ( General Synopsis ' has hitherto been a 

 puzzle, but we now know that his descriptions were founded 

 on these very pictures of Watling' s, which thereby become the 

 types of Latham's descriptions. Latham apparently refers to 

 a few of them as c Lambert's Drawings.' They may have been 

 lent by James Lee to Lambert, and shown to Latham by the 

 latter, but they did not pass into Lambert' s possession. Latham, 

 though apparently glad to name the species and to publish 

 Watling's notes, usually in their entirety, never once, as far 



