THE COLLECTIONS OF BANKS AND SOLANDER 289 
the itt and specimens of the plants from the Friendly 
Telands, d Lowe cites the Madcira collections throughout his 
Flora of Madeira (1857-72). The Trustees of the Bri itish Museum 
gave permission to the New Zealand Government to obtain a set of 
ie aed portion of the work and to issue the plates in a separate 
volum ist of the Madeira drawings will be found in the 
Jour via of Botany, 1904, p. & 
I matter for regret that Bentham did not consult the 
drawings when preparing his valuable Flora Australiensis. His 
work at the National Herbarium ~ however, mainly in con- 
Neckion with the collections made Robert Brown, then the 
r. J. J. Bennet 
quently etuatecceet and, as the following pages will show, the 
plants of Banks and Solander were to a considerable extent passed 
over unnoticed. 
The Australasian collections are represented by 412 posed 
from these 362 finished drawings were prepared, of which 340 wer 
engraved.* From the copper plates of these, the plates illustrating 
this volume have been lithographed; they represent 328 of the 
engravings, most of the remainder being unfinished or imperfect 
representations. Three of the drawings of which no plates exist— 
Tribulus Solandri, Pleiogynium Solandri, and Myrmecodia Beccarii— 
being of special interest, were drawn on stone by the late Robert 
rea i Le 
0. ew Zealand plants there are 173 sketches, 205 fini 
drawings, and plates; of those of the Friendly Islands, 14 
sketches, 114 finished drawings, an s; of those Tier 
d 88 pla 0. 
del Fuego, 1 sketch, 79 finished drawings, and 66 plates; of those 
of Brazil, 1 sketch, 87 finished drawings, and 23 plates; of those of 
Java, 72 sketches, 44 finished drawings, and 29 plates; of those of 
Madeira, 2 sketches, 22 finished drawings, and 11 plates; making a 
total of 675 sketches, 868 finished drawings, and 742 copper plates, 
of which 722 are represented in the “aiporet of engravings. 
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did most of the work, and others “G, Sibelius.” The fo ormer, 
— he does not appear in any dictionary of artists, was 
Joseph Hooker. biless writing from ange memory, speas of 
the Soateatnnn plates as “ ain outlines” seers ir J. Banks, xxv 
+ ‘Liber emtus est Londini ex bibliotheca Fieldian 
