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these there is an oblong folio volume of views in water-colour of thé 
island, and a large number of pencil drawings of plants: © these 
terminations made the MS., wherein many 
unpublished genera; of many there are two copies. Of- these 
Deschamps says in one of his .: “Je joins a cet ouvrage 
une grande quantité de dessins, la plapa rt faite sur le champ 
d’aprés nature, d’autres d’aprés la plante séchié. Cette wots 
est faite pour compléter Reed et Rumphius. Ce qui y manque 
cdte du.dessin est remplacé par edieetitends des cartons 
t is unre ss ae —s about Deschamps. He was, 
has been said, t y-five when he ni for — in 1791. 
He dosribes prea oa Meme title. -page of his MS. ‘ Flore Javane’ 
(1802) as ‘‘M.D. et chirurgien-major a Batavia.’ After this 
waipliabatt> returned to France, as P. de Beauvois, in dedicating to 
him the genus Deschampsia in 1812, speaks of him as ‘‘médecin & 
int-Omer.’’ Possibly the publication of this notice may elicit 
further vee rate some French botanist. Iti is evident from 
his MSS. that Deschamps was capable and srduntttouis, and it is 
to be er that the knowledge of Javan plants which he un- 
doubtedly ., was not made public at a time when little was 
known of the botany of Java The : specimens which Reeves bought 
with the MSS. are apparently lost: there is no evidence ro 
they were ever received at the National Herbarium. A volum: 
dealing with mammalia, a formed part of the series, and is rn 
the Zoological Department. 
2. Fernanpoo Noronwa. 
Among the drawings by Deschamps is a collection of 111 coloured 
figures, accompanied by a list of vernacular names he ed ‘ Notitie 
plantarum j javanicaram servantur Samarangae in schola nav al et 
comparin 
difference in number is accounted = by the fact that in our set 
one species is eRe by two drawings. 
In what appears to be an ane rid to a flora of Java 
(unfinished) Deschamps s: “Un naturaliste espagnol, 
Norona, ven pen ng Mai ete eae un voyage dans sping! de 
Java, ou il avait fait une superbe co sais ; mais, 
particuliéres ek ce t dans sa course, il partit pour "Viele. pa 
France, ot il mourut ae temps aprés son ns ag sans avoir pu. 
mettre la derniére main 4 son ouvrage qui se trouve perdu pour = 
sciences & l'exception d’un catalogue des plantes du pays qui 
trouve imprimé dans les mémoires de la Société de Batavie ok 
polanye’ dessins Bog avait laissés & Jan r predieat Diman a son 
Mécéne Deschamps makes no mention of his own 
