XI— THE DATES OF HOOKER'S "BOTANICAL 

 MISCELLANY."*— H. S. Marshall. 



This periodical consists of three volumes dated, (on their title- 

 pages), " 1830," " 1831 " and " 1833 " respectively, and these dates 

 have been accepted as correct in botanical works of reference such 

 as Pfeiffer's Nomenclator (1873-74), the Index Kewensis (1893-95), 

 Dalla Torre et Harms, Genera Siphonogamarum (1900-07), Post et 

 Kuntze, Lexicon Generum Phanerogamarum (1903), and Lem(5e, 

 Dictionnaire . . . des genres de plantes phanerogames (1929—35)! 

 Actually, however, the three volumes appeared in nine parts from 



* See The Dates of Hooker's " Companion to the Botanical Maeazine '' 

 (K. B. 1933, 362). ^ 



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Nat. 18, Rev. Bibl. 70 (1829), and in Wikstrom, Jahresb. Bot. 

 1829, 64 (1834), and the more precise date " April 1829," supplied 

 in Bot. Lit. -Blatter, 2, 125 (1829), is accordingly accepted here as 

 correct. 



Hooker's original intention was to publish the " Botanical 

 Miscellany " in quarterly parts, as is indicated in Ann. Sci. Nat. 

 (I.e.), Wikstrom, Jahresb. Bot. (I.e.), Loud. Gard. Mag. 5, no. 20, 

 303 (1829), and Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6, no. 33, 264 (May 1833), 

 but the financial support required for a quarterly issue was not 

 forthcoming, and the work seems to have been issued at approxi- 

 mately half-yearly intervals (see below), the ninth and concluding 

 part appearing in March 1833 (Loud. Gard. Mag. 9, 349 : 1833). 

 Publication was discontinued owing to lack of support by the 

 botanical public. The price of each part, containing on the average 

 over 120 pages of letterpress and (in the early parts) 25 plates, 

 was only 15/- coloured, 10/6 plain (Loud. Gard. Mag. 5, 303), but 

 the number of copies sold was apparently insufficient to meet the 

 cost of publication. Hooker accordingly brought out a " second 

 series " of the " Botanical Miscellany " in a less expensive form, 

 under the title " The Journal of Botany," each part, price 7/6, 

 containing six sheets of letterpress and 8 plates (see wrapper of 

 Curtis's Botanical Magazine for April 1st, 1834). 



Part 2 of the "Botanical Miscellany" appeared in September 1829t 

 and part 3 in the early part of 1830. A review of vol. 1, given 



* 30 new genera and 1 new generic name, 428 new species, and 23 new 

 combinations and names of species. 



t It is reviewed as "Part 2 for September " in Loud. Gard. Mag. 6, no. 28, 

 Oct. 1830, 564. This must have been Sept. 1829, since Part 2 was reviewed 

 in Edinb. Journ. Nat. Geogr. Sci. 1, 438 (March 1830). 



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