Egerton-Williams eventually employed two Bank of England plate engravers to remake the five missing plates from the contemporary black and white proofs. There are 34 portfolios in all, each containing 22 or 23 prints. The Australian plants, consisting of 337 plates, make up parts 1 through 15. There are then portfolios, in varying numbers, for Brazil, Java, Madiera, New Zealand, the Society Islands and Tierra del Fuego. Thus, in the end, Solander's intellectual effort and industry, and Banks' enormous expenditure, have not been in vain.
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