were the log-books of _The
Endeavour_, _The Resolution_, and _The Racehorse_, and the journals of
Tasman, Carver, Verwey and other navigators.

A catalogue of the library was compiled by Mr. Jonas Dryander, who
succeeded Dr. Solander as Sir Joseph's librarian, in five volumes, and
published in London in the years 1798-1800.

Sir Joseph Banks was the author of two treatises:--one, _On the Cause of
Blight in Corn_, published in 1805; and the other on _Some Circumstances
relative to Merino Sheep_, published in 1809; together with some
articles contributed to the journals of learned societies. He evidently
intended at one time to publish a work embodying the results of his
researches, as the plates were engraved, and the text partly prepared
for press, but the death of his librarian Dr. Solander in 1782 appears
to have caused him to relinquish his purpose. Kaempfer's _Icones
Plantarum_ was published by him in 1791, and he also superintended the
issue of Roxburgh's _Coromandel Plants_ in 1795-1819. A statue of Sir
Joseph by Sir Francis Chantrey is placed in the Natural History Museum
in South Kensington, and a portrait of him by Sir Thomas Lawrence is
hung in the board-room of the British Museum. Another portrait of him by
Thomas Phillips, R.A., is in the National Portrait Gallery.

Sarah Sophia Banks, the only sister of Sir Joseph Banks, possessed
similar tastes to her brother, and amassed a considerable number of
books, coins, objects of natural history, etc. She died at her brother's
house in Soho Square on the 27th of September 1818; and after her death
a portion of her collections, consisting of sixty-six volumes of
manuscripts, chiefly relating to heraldic matters, ceremonials, archery,
etc., together with several printed books principally treating of
chivalry, knighthood, etc., some of them enriched with her MS. notes,
were presented to the library of the British Museum by Lady Banks, the
wife of Sir Joseph. Several of the volumes were in very fine bindings.

REV. JOHN BRAND, 1744-1806

The Rev. John Brand, the author of _Observations on Popular
Antiquities_, was born on the 19th of August 1744 at Washington, in the
county of Durham, where his father Alexander Brand was parish clerk.
When fourteen years of age he was apprenticed to his uncle Anthony
Wheatley, a shoemaker of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and during his residence
in that town he attended the grammar school there. He displayed so much
ability and ind