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rewarded them ; of the kind notice that was taken of him by Sir James 

 Edward Smith, the head of the prevailing school, and the maintainer 

 of the full sufficiency of the Linnaean artificial system, who, by caution- 

 ing the young man not to be led astray by new and false lights, first 

 awoke a curiosity which began to be gratified when he soon afterwards 

 visited his friend Hooker, and was by him introduced to Jussieu's 

 Genera Plantarum, and Richard's Analyse du Fruit. It was then, as 

 he says, tliat his botanical life commenced, and a translation from the 

 French of Riohard which he made on the spot, at one sitting of three 

 days and two nights, was the first of his numerous publications. In 

 1818 or 1819, he went up to London, and, introduced by Hooker to 

 Sir Joseph Banks, was employed by him for a time as assistant libra- 

 rian. Sir Joseph introduced Lindley to Mr. Cattley, a wealthy mer- 

 chant and amateur cultivator, who wanted scientific assistance in illus- 

 trating and publishing some new plants of his collection. In this 

 service, Lindley in 1821 brought out the fine folio volume entitled 

 Collectanea Botanica. He dedicated it to Mr. Sabine, the Honorary 

 Secretaiy of the Horticultural Society of London, under whom the next 

 year he became Assistant Secretary, just when the famous garden at 

 Chiswick was to be laid out. In 1826, as sole Assistant Secretary, 

 and afterwai'ds as Vice Secretary, Lindley became, and long remained 

 the practical head of this important establishment, which, under his 

 wise and energetic administration, has rendered vast service to horti- 

 culture and to botany. From the year 1829 to 1861 he was Professor 

 of Botany in the London University, and at the same time lecturer at 

 the Apothecaries' Garden at Chelsea. In 1830, he published the first 

 edition of his Introduction to the Natural System of Botany, revised 

 and amplified it in 1836, and in 1846 he expanded it into that ency- 

 clopajdia of botanical knowledge, " The Vegetable Kingdom, or the 

 Structure, Classification, and Uses of Plants, illustrated upon the Nat- 

 ural System." The several works upon structural and physiological 

 botany, which accompanied the systematic ones already mentioned, 

 those upon medical and economical botany, his Theory and Practice of 

 Horticulture, and the like, need not here be enumerated, being among 

 the best known and most widely used botanical books of the age. Tlie 

 same may be said of Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Plants, the scientific 

 part of which was by Lindley, and of the Botanical Register, the rival 

 of the Botanical Magazine, which he edited for about twenty years. 

 He originated, in 1841, the Gardeners' Chronicle, and conducted it 



