%eadnotat; ]> Eyre, Manuel, 1837-1912. Paintings of Chinese plants and animals, 1733? Phillips Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, March 2001. ENG Eyre, Manuel, 1837-1912. Paintings of Chinese plants and animals, 1733? Phillips Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1963 Descriptive Summary Collection 476 Archives of the Academy of Natural Sciences

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EYRE, MANUEL, 1837-1912, collector. Paintings of Chinese plants and animals, 1733? 149 items. Collection 476

Chinese paintings done in pure tempora colors, bound in two volumes of 118 and 141 pages respectively. The first volume contains 77 botanical plates while the second has 20 plates of mammals, 23 of insects and 28 of birds. Bound in green tapestry cloth, with woven design of swastikas.

Presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences by Mrs. Roland R. Foulke (Ellen Griffith Foulke) on December 16, 1933, in memory of Robert Eglesfeld Griffith. The volumes had been in the possession of the family for years, from the estate of Mrs. Foulke's grandfather, Manuel Eyre, a shipbuilder, who probably acquired them in his business ventures. The paintings are believed to be over 200 years old. In 1945, Hui-Lin Li said that the bindings corroborate the statement of age and that the plants in volume one are cultivated species from Southern China.