HISTORY OF EUROPEAN BOTANICAL DISCOVERIES IN CHINA. 87 
Journal for 1894 (p. 298) we stated that these saree could not 
then be found at the Horticultural Society’s rooms, nor have they 
Library; and there is little doubt that these form, as is suggested 
in Journ. Bot. 1897, p. 427, the collection now in the Botanical 
ese caseat of the British Museum, to which Dr. Bretschneider 
refers on p. 258. We think, by the way, that the learned author 
somewhat over-estimates the number of SEOOHERUE from Reeves to 
be found in the Museum and Kew herba 
e collection of drawings eat "by John Bradby (not 
‘*Bradley’’) Blake merits more ae than might appear 
152 
from De aoa ome reference (p. ). It is described by 
Dryander (Cat. Bibl. Banks, iii. 18 83) as “Volumen ome 
onan gy sao a 62, Cantoni eleganter pistes cum an 
partium fructifi ionis.” Dryander (Trans. Linn. Soe. i. 172) 
says gina the Chinese artist had been instructed by Blake ‘in the 
art of making botanical drawings”; but this instruction was no 
doubt limited to ee botanical details, as the figures are the work 
ists 
of an accomplishe ughtsm he volume contains 
of EF ‘cone eof Pas complete) by Banks, Solander, 
Dryander, and J. J. some case lygonum 
tinctorium—the tgs a. se correlate by Dryander with specimens 
Herb. Banks which bear the same native name in the same hand ; 
in this particular instance the specinen and | dswing form the type 
of the description in Hort. Kew. (ii. 33), although, as Dr. 
Bret- 
schneider si out, the date 776 is a mistake, as Blake died in 
1 
An other garg of Chinese drawings in the Botanical 
Department seu interest Dr. Bretschneider, although the 
plants are aus in a Sareontional and unpleasing manner 
It is mentioned aioe ‘Anon.’ in Dryander’s Catalogue of the 
Banksian Library (i. 252), but no light is thrown upon its history. 
The title-page of each of the two oblong folio volumes (each con- 
taining 100 plates) pin the rig Pa ‘ Le Chr de Robier, Canton 
la 
Chine, année e plants are named in Chinese. 
ander enters athe clei (l.c. iii. ges ) as ‘ Codex 
foliorum 96, quorum singula ontinent icon lantz, coloribus 
fucatim a pictore quodam sin cama” (quarto), but this does not seem 
to be in the Botanical Department. 
Our author has not identified the ‘“‘ Robertson ’’ mentioned on 
p. 154 with the James Robertson of the Biographical Index, which, 
it is pleasant to note, has been of much use to him in his researches. 
Nor is this to be wondered at, for when the Index was compiled we 
found Friocaulon in Skye 768 was the Robertson who w 
subsequently sent through the influence of Banks to Calcutta, 
where (it would ar from an interesting letter in the Banksian 
