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=1827.= The BANKSIAN LIBRARY, HERBARIA, and MUSEUM.

_Collected_ by =Sir Joseph Banks=, P.R.S. (Died 19 June, 1820), and a Trustee. _Bequeathed_ by the Collector, with a prior life interest, to =Robert Brown= (Died 1858); and by him _transferred_ to the British Museum in 1827.

Sir Joseph’s botanical Collections included the Herbaria, severally, of =Cliffort=; of =Clayton= (the basis of the ‘_Flora Virginica_’); of =John Baptist Fusée d’Aublet= (Died 6 May, 1728); of =Nicholas Joseph Jacquin=, author of the ‘_Floræ Austriacæ_’ (Died 24 October, 1817); and of =Philip Miller=, author of ‘_The Gardener’s Dictionary_’ (Died 18 December, 1771); with portions of the Collections of =Tournefort=, =Hermann=, and =Loureiro=.

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=1829.= The HARTZ-MOUNTAINS MINERALS.

_Collected_ at various periods and by several mineralogists. This fine Cabinet was for a considerable period preserved at Richmond. _Presented_ by =King George the Fourth=.

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=1829.= The EGERTON MANUSCRIPTS.

_Collected_ by =Francis Henry Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater= (Died 11 February, 1829). _Bequeathed_ by the Collector; together with a sum of £12,000, to be invested, and the yearly income to be applied for further purchases of MSS. from time to time; and with other provision towards the salary of an ‘Egerton Librarian.’

[See BOOK II,