Claudius Rich was British Consul at Bagdad (Died 5 Oct., 1821). He made an extensive gathering of Persian, Turkish, Syriac, and Arabic MSS., and of Coins, &c. These were purchased by a Parliamentary vote.
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1825. Sir Richard Colt Hoare’s Italian Library.
Given, by the Collector, in 1825, and subsequently increased, by another gift.
[See Book II, Chapter 3.]
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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.