j;0 CHAPTER 31. 
obferves that he was every way qualified. 
He fent to Ray, in 1680, A Catalogue 
*^ of Plants obferved by him in Virginia-^' 
which was publiflied in the fecond volume 
of Ray's Hiftory, p. 1928. 
The world was deprived of much of the 
fruit of his labours, by his untimely death. 
Banister increafed the lift of martyrs to 
natural hiftory. In one of his excuriions, 
in purfuit of his objed:, he fell from the 
rocks, and periftied. His Herbarium came 
into the pofteffion of Sir Hans Sloane, 
who thought it a confiderable acquifition. 
The following papers, written by Mr. 
Banister, were publiftied in the Pbilofo- 
fhical T^ranfaBions : 
A Catalogue of feveral Curiofities found 
inVirghtia. N° 198. p. 667. 
Obfervations on the Mufca Lupus of 
MouFFET, in Virginia, They relate to 
the balancers or poifers, called by Lin- 
N^us Halteres, fixed under the wings of 
the order of Dipfera among infedls. N'' 
198. p. 670. 
On feveral Sorts of Snails obferved in 
Yirginia, lb. p, 672. 
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