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useum. 
Comber’s publications, however, give but a poor notion of his 
; this can best be estimated by consultation of his collections, 
on which no expense was spared. Some idea of the extent of these 
of phanerogams was presented by him shortly before his death to 
the Victoria University of Liverpool. 
NOTES ON THE BANKSIAN HERBARIUM. 
(Tux following is a transcript of a folio sheet of memoranda ( in 
Robert Brown’s hand), which is among the archives of the National 
Herbarium. The information it contains may be worth placing on 
record. A few notes are added in square brackets.—Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
Memoranpa respecting the Banksian Herbarium and Library copied 
from notes in Sir Joseph Banks's writing, in a folio book which 
he began in the year 1777. 
In the year 1774 I agreed with some of the brethren of this 
Society who resided at Tranquebar, to send me home dried speci- 
In the year 1775 I received from them about 265 species, for which 
I paid Mr. (Hurlock) apothecary in St. Paul’s Churchyard according 
[A second collection, of about simil ived by 
Bike April, 1778.) about similar extent, was rece 
Hers. Hexver. (Hersarium HeEtvericum). 
: In the year 1775, Dr. Pitcairn was by a correspondent in Switzer- 
and offered the purchase of a large herbarium, the collector of which 
