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SIR JOSEPH BANKS. 
1776, being then very old, he gave up business to his sons and a Mr. (Dermer)?, 
who immediately added large stoves to the gardeas. (He died 1789; “ Biogr. 
Index Brit. Botanists,” 70.) 
4. Johannes De Loure 3 ?TO.* 
John de Loureyro, a Portuguese by birth, and a Jesuit, resided many years 
at the capital of Cochin-China, in a religious mission. He sent (in) 1774 to his 
friend. Captain Riddel, in the East India Company’s service, a small collection 
of plants dried, with descriptions of them in Latin, which proves him to be a man 
of education and abilities ; both the plants and descriptions are in my possession, 
through Captain Riddel’s kindness. 
(On the title-page of his “ Flora Cocliinchinensis ” Loureiro does not describe 
himself as a Jesuit, but as “ olim in Cochinchina Catholicae Fidei Praeconis.” He 
was, however, a Jesuit until the suppression of the Society in 1773.) 
5. Hort. Dni. Pitcairn. 
(William)Pitcairn, M.D., in the year (1775) President of the College of Physicians, 
established in the year a botanical garden at Islington, from whence, by his 
favour, I have from time to time many valuable specimens. (“ Biogr. Index,” 
136; “ Rees’ Cyclop,” under Pitcairnia.) 
6. J. R. and G. Forster. 
Jolin Reynhold and George, his son, embarked in the year 1772 on board the 
“ Resolution,” Captain Cook, bound to the South Seas on discovery, sent by the 
Board of Admiralty ; the father as naturalist, and the son as his assistant, in 
my room, when I was disappointed of my anxious desire of undertaking that 
voyage by the machinations of Sir Hugh Palliser,| then Comptroller of the Navy. 
For their reward they had 4,000 pounds, which at my desire was voted by the 
House of Commons, to enable Dr. James Lind, of Edinburgh, M.D., to accompany 
them, but the vote having passed in vague terms, it was thought proper to apply 
it to the benefit of the voyage of discovery in that manner. On their return 
they did me the favour to present me with very many specimens, both of plants 
and animals, which they had collected in the different countries they had visited. 
In the year 1776 I purcha-sed of them for 400 pounds all the drawings of animals 
and plants which they had made in the course of the voyage. 
(The above note has already been printed in this Journal [1885, 363] in the 
course of a full account of the Forster collections, but it is reprinted here so that 
Brown’s memorandum may appear in its complete form. A large number of 
Forster’s New Zealand plants with manuscript descriptions are in the Paris 
Museum [see ‘Voyage de I’Astrolabe” (Botanique),introd., pp. iv, v]. A herbarium 
of J. R. Forster was purchased at his death by Sprengel for 130 louis d’or 
[Schrader’s “Journal fiir die Botanik,” ii, 195]. Another collection, belonging e’ther 
to J. R. or George Forster, was offered by Dr. Thomas Forster, son of one of them, 
to the National Herbarium in 1852, but was not purchased, as it was not thought 
likely to contain anything additional to the very fine series possessed by Banks.) 
Copied March, 1828, having obtained leave the same day to do so from Sir 
Edward Knatchbull, to whom I delivered it along with the portrait of Captain 
Cook, Sir J. Banks’ diplomas, and several other things of smaller importance. — 
(R. Brown. )J 
* Loureyro is Banks' spelling, Loureiro the modern. 
t See supra, p. 4i. 
t J. Britten in Journal of Botany. Vol. xL, 1902, pp. 388-390. 
