290 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
eminent in his oe he engraved twenty-seven of the thirty ee i 
of Krica by Franz Bauer which formed the Delineation of the Exo 
Plants sulbsianad in the Royal Gardens at Kew (1793-1802) and the 
botanical plates in Symes’ Hmbassy to Ava (1800), and was employed 
by the Linnean Society; he died in or about 1800. A few of the 
plates bear a names of Goldar, Robert Blyth, G. Smith, and 
White as engra 
It will be dbesived that the names of species un have been 
adopted by various authors from Solander’s MSS. are throughout 
on present work Eecaeeal to Banks and Sélanaer, alaicag ch in 
t egarded as a patron of science rather than as a man of 
scientific attainment ch more botanical knowledge than 
This seems to h een recognized by 
his contemporaries ; thus Smith speaks of what are generally called 
the Solander MSS. as the work of Banks and Solander,* and Patrick 
Natural History of Aleppot was drawn up by Banks and Solander, 
although it has been customary to attribute the new species therein 
described to Solander only. 
James Britten. 
LIGHTFOOT’S VISIT TO WALES IN 1778. 
By tue Rev. H. J. Rippetspet.. 
Tue account of Lightfoot’s gay! through Wales, here re- 
produced from § olander’s transcript in the Department of Botany, 
British Museum (Natural History), will best be prefaced by four of 
his letters to Banks; these serve to establish the year and the 
company in which he went through Wales. By an error rare in 
that work, the accurate Dryander, in his Catalogue of Banks’s 
library, gives ihe y year of the j journey Ss gis geass of 1778; he 
also omits to say that the ‘“ Journal” ere original, but a 
ue. 
the letters, which are preserved in the MS. copy of Banks’s Corre- 
spondence (vol. i. pp. 57, 60, 64, 76) preserved in the Department 
of Botany. 
Banks and sagt S seem to have made most of their observa- 
rence the MS. of the j journey - seems to draw a distinction. Yet, if it 
were not for the evidence of the letters, ae curiously detached way in 
ks’s name occurs as authority for an odd plant here and 
anks 
there might lead to the conclusion that they did not invariably 
* Rees Cyclop. v. Jasminum. 
t Pref. p. viii. 
