in the " Edinburgh Journal of Natural and Geographical Science " 

 for March 1830, mentions part 3 as unpublished but gives a full 

 summary of its contents. It was reviewed in " Flora " on 21 

 July, 1830. Part 4 was published after 22 October, 1830, since 

 it contains an obituary notice of Robert Barclay, who died on that 

 date. The notice was written in 1830* by Hooker, who refers to 

 Barclay's death as " recent." As it was contained in the last 

 sheet of part 4, it is probable that that part appeared in November 

 or December 1830. Parts 5 and 6 appeared in 1831, according to 

 Literaturberichte zur Flora 1832, 2, 32, the months of publication 

 not being stated. The date of publication of part 7 has not been 

 ascertained with certainty. It probably appeared in the spring 

 of 1832, since it is not mentioned in Loud. Gard. Mag. 8, no. 37 

 (April 1832), 204, where parts 5 and 6 are reviewed, and we know 

 that part 8 was published on 1 August, 1832. Part 9 appeared on 

 1 March, 1833 (Loud. Gard. Mag. 9, 349 : 1833). f 



Taking all the ascertained facts together, it seems reasonable 

 to conclude that two parts of the " Botanical Miscellany " appeared 

 per annum, in spring and autumn respectively. The dates of 

 publication of the nine parts may accordingly be stated as follows : 



Part 1, April 1829 ; part 2, September 1829 ; part 3, spring or 

 summer 1830.— vol. 1, dated 1830. 



Part 4, after 22 Oct. 1830 ; part 5, [spring ?] 1831 ; part 6, 

 [autumn?] 1831.— vol. 2, dated 1831. 



Part 7, [spring?] 1832 ; part 8, 1 Aug. 1832 ; part 9, 1 March 

 1833.— vol. 3, dated 1833. 



The precise contents and the dates of publication of each of the 

 nine parts are given below, followed by references to the sources 

 of information in each case. 



. Volume 1 (title-page dated 1830). 



Part 1, pp. 1-96, tt. i-xxv : April 1829.— See Loud. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. 2, no. 7, May 1829, 193 ; Ann. Sci. Nat. 18, Rev. Bibl., Juin 

 1829, 70 ; Flora oder Bot. Zeit. 1829, 1, 184 [date given as Jan. 

 1829, but the Part was apparently not seen by the writer, who 

 erroneously gave the title as " Miscellanea Botanica "] ; Bot. 

 Lit.-Blatter, 2, 125, 226 (1829) ; Edinb. Journ. Nat. Geogr. Sci. 

 1, 438 (1830) ; Linnaea, 5, Litt.-Ber. 175 (1830) ; Wikstrom, 

 Jahresb. Bot. 1829, 64 (1834). 



Part 2, pp. 95 bis— 236, tt. xxvi-1 : September 1829.— See 

 Edinb. Journ. Nat. Geogr. Sci. 1, 438 (1830) ; Loud. Gard. Mag. 

 6 no. 28, October 1830, 564 ; Linnaea, 6, Litt.-Ber. 151 (1831) ; 

 Wikstrom, Jahresb. Bot. 1829, 65 (1834). 



* " In the summer of the present year his strength began to decUne " 

 Hooker in Hook. Bot. Misc. 2, 125. 



t The less precise date "early in April" is given in Loud. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. 6, 264 (1833). 



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