HISTORY OF THE COLLECTIONS, BRITISH MUSEUM (NAT. HIST.) 357 
applicable to the whole section. . A similar correction will no doubt 
be 
made in the preface by the Director. 
The British Museum was Sosiaialialiod by Parliament in 1753, 
under the provisions of 26 Geo. II. ch. 22, an Act for the purchase 
of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane and of the Harleian 
trustees. Section 14 ew that, for the lees execution of 
the purposes of the Act, the said trustees should be a Body Politick 
and ri in deed and name, and should have succession oe 
ever by the name of the Trustees of the British Museum. Sir Han 
Sloane died peer oa 
According to Mr. Geo e Murray’ s evidence, taken before the 
Departmental Commitibe é on  Adeiaies ork, November Ist, j 
the ee, and por pre-Linnean herbaria number about 90,000 
spec N large additions seem to have been made to 
a po Be rt een 1753 and 1827; but in the latter year the 
Banksian herbarium, which was the foundation of the general her- 
arium, was acquired, and is one of the most frequently cited in 
botanical works. 
A chronological account of the principal accessions to the bo- 
tanical collections from 1829 to 1902 is supplied on pp. 85-128; 
every year is represented except 1830, 1832, 1833, and 1835; there 
are altogether 705 items. In 1876 the study set of Robert Brown's 
at the Cans ae the years 1771 and 1772: it is reckoned that 
about a thousand of his plants exist in the Banksian herbarium ; 
nineteen species of Scrophulariace@ are illustrated by specimens in 
this set. 
The Brazilian collector, Claussen, on p. 140, has also a blank fo 
his Christian name. Is not this the same person as the Claussen (P. ) 
mentioned in the article on Geology on p. 278 ? ick, a collector 
of Swiss plants, is another name similarly with a blank. The fol- 
lowing paragraph, extracted from Alb. v. Haller, Hist. Stirp. Indig. 
Helvet. pref. p. xvii (1768), probably refers to him :— 
