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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 
Tournefort, and Vaillant; and those of most of the contemporary 
English botanists—Buddle (an important British herbarium), Doody, 
Philip Miller, Merrett, Ray, Sherard, Uvedale ; and from the gardens 
of Badminton, Oxford, and Westminster. 
The herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) is the foundation 
At the time of i isition i 
cies—and, owing to the freedom of access which was allowed to it, 
one of the most frequently cited in botanical works. Besides the 
Newfoun: r in 1766, as well as those obtained in 
[celand in 1772. The herbarium was continually being enriched 
Miller, whose own herbarium, cont he types of many of the 
plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary, ed. v i ‘ s 
y Banks in 1774. Int arranged with the 
**Societas Unitatis Fratrum,’’ or Brothers, to collect 
plants at Tranquebar, whence he received about 500 specimens in 
1775-78. In 1775 he pure a large herbarium of Swiss plants, 
indicated in the herbarium as ‘‘ Herb. Helvet.,” collected by Dick ; 
these Banks obtained through Dr. Pitcairn (1711-91), who had a 
tanic garden at Islington, specimens from which are in the 
acquired at about the same time. The plants collected by Alexander 
Russell (1715 2-68) and his brother Patrick (1726-1805), who were 
