April 1829 to March 1833 inclusive. Owing to the considerable 

 number of new genera and species * whose dates of publication are 

 concerned, it has seemed worth while to make an extended search 

 in the botanical literature of the period for notices and reviews of 

 the several parts of the " Botanical Miscellany." Information has 

 been obtained from the following sources : — 



Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, 1-6 (1829-33) ; Loudon's 

 Gardener's Magazine, 5-9 (1829-33) ; Edinburgh Journal of Natural 

 and Geographical Science, 1 (1830) ; Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 

 ser. 1, 18 (1829) ; Flora oder Botanische Zeitung, 1829-30 ; Litera- 

 turberichte zur Flora oder allgemeinen botanischen Zeitung, 1832 ; 

 Botanische Literatur-Blatter . . . von der Konigl. botanischen 

 GeseUschaft zu Regensburg. 2 (1829) ; Linnaea, 5-9 (1830-34) ; 

 Wikstrom, Jahresbericht der Schwed. Akad. Wiss. iiber die Fort- 

 schritte der Botanik im Jahre 1829 (1834) ; et op. cit. 1830 (1834) ; 

 1832 (1835) ; 1833 (1835) ; 1834 (1836). 



The evidence as to the date of publication of part 1 is slightly 

 conflicting. According to Linnaea, 5, Litt.-Ber. 175-177 (1830), 

 it appeared in 1828, but the date 1829 is given both in Ann. Sci. 

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

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

 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 pubHc. 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 rneet 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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