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Seer the colour of the leaves, flowers, etc., and the locality 1 is 
dded i 
son’s), from which the engravings were prepared, were made _ 
Miller and his brother James, Frederick Polydore Nodder, “aad 
Thomas Burgis (only three)—during the years 1773-1781. J. F. 
ent with Ba i i 
which the specinioas x not justify, in os main, vhomerer ‘thee in- 
terpretation i is accu 
The drawings pi “specimens seem to have beat avaiable ie 
reference very shortly after the return of the travellers. Thomas 
Martyn, writing to Pulteney in epbgi tse Bec! ‘ipa of having 
‘recently ‘‘spent a morning with Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander, to 
turn out 3,000 specimens of plants, 1,000 oF eibit new species, and 
of Botany (ii. 8366) speaks of the ‘‘ vast collection of natural pro- 
ductions, and especially of dried plants, with complete descriptions 
and excellent delineations, both made on the spot, [which] opened 
as it were a new world to the naturalist, and to the botanist in 
particular ; for these treasures so arde ntly expestad: although not 
s been lost 
rae of New Holland.’’t Eas who beinched any of the 
potenti novelties in his important work De Fructibus et Seminibus 
pierre (1788-1805), Brenig ren A pe sa the help he re- 
ceived from the Banksian Herbarium and from Solander’s MSS.: 
: uze, in his bi f G: riner vit ‘‘M. Banks com- 
muniqua & M. Gaertner tous les fruits qu’il possédoit sans exception ; 
“4 = permit non ent de les Me mais de — de les 
siveit ese a 
In more recent times the drawings were consulted by Sir J Toseph 
Hooker witad preparing his Flora Antarctica. a e speaks in high 
terms of the value of the soltetions of Banks and Solander in New 
Zealand and Tierra del Fuego, and adds: “ Valuable as the dried 
plants are, their utility is doubly increased ‘by the excellent descrip- 
boing and by the beautiful coloured drawings executed on the spot 
accompany them and were made at Sir Joseph Banks’s own 
erretibe .’t Seemann throughout his Flora Vitiensis (1865-73) refers 
* Gorham, Memoirs of ages oy (aan Martyn, 141 (1830), 
t Ann. Mus, d’Hist. Nat. i. 
} Botany of the Antarctic V: mane von Antarctica, ii. 222 (1847). 
