“142 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
above, may here, as it gives the earliest estimate of 
Brown’s collections; the information was supplied by Sir Joseph 
Banks, to whom, pen g the return of Brown, the dried plants 
were entrusted by order of the Admiralty :— 
“ By letters received from Mr. Brown, it a, pears that so long 
ago as the latter end of May 1802, that excellent and indefatigable 
e3 
) Oo w, mostly 
belonging to known genera, or to new ones in the natural families 
miniature paintings” must be taken as referring to their careful 
finish and not to their size. We have no specimens of the plants 
