William Adams (1564-1620) was the first Englishman to reach Japan, arriving on a Dutch ship at Bungo (a principality containing present day Usuki City) in May 1600. After a summons by the Emperor at Osaka, imprisonment and interrogation, he was…
The catalogue was complied by William Benham (1860-1950), Professor of Biology a the University of Otago. Only the pages relating to botany charts have been digitised. The original item also records details of charts relating to human and animal…