by a select committee of the British House of Commons about the suitability of the area for emigration. The 1820 Settlers went out from England a year later. He spent time cataloguing and processing his specimens, and raising funds for his next expedition. Burchell travelled in Brazil between 1825 and 1830, again collecting a large number of specimens, including more than 20,000 insects. The journals covering his Brazil expedition are missing, as are his diaries relating to his later travels. His field note books, detailing his plant collections, are held in the collection of Kew Gardens. Historians have used them to reconstruct the latter part of his trip. Burchell's extensive African collections included plants, animal skins, skeletons, insects, seeds, bulbs and fish. After his death, his plant specimens, drawings and manuscripts, both South African and Brazilian, were presented by his sister, Anna Burchell, to Kew Gardens and the insects to Oxford University Museum. He is known for the copious and accurate notes he made to accompany every collected specimen, detailing habit and habitat, as well as the numerous drawings and paintings of landscapes, portraits, costumes, people, animals and plants. Burchell died in Fulham in 1863, ending his own life by hanging himself in a small outhouse in his garden, after a non-fatal suicide attempt by shooting. He is buried near his home at All Saints Church, Fulham. Published works Legacy and honours He is commemorated in the monotypic plant genus Burchellia R. Br. Numerous animal species were named for him: Burchell's zebra, Burchell's coucal, Burchell's sandgrouse, Burchell's courser, and the Eciton burchellii army ant. A species of African lizard, Pedioplanis burchelli, is named in his honour. See also Burchell's Shelter :Category:Taxa named by William John Burchell Gallery References Further reading The South African Drawings of William Burchell vols 1 & 2 - Witwatersrand University Press, 1938 & 1952 External links Trekking Burchell’s Wagon Route Burchell’s Travels by Bike; 2010 Motorcycle trip along his SA route with pictures. 1781 births 1863 deaths Botanists with author abbreviations Burials at All Saints Church, Fulham English botanists English explorers English naturalists English zoologists Explorers of Africa Fellows of the Linnean Society of London People from Fulham Suicides in Fulham Zoological collectors Suicides by hanging in England