and we have this day to place before our readers another such example in Dr. 



John Lindlcy. 



Dr. Liiulley was born at Catton, near Norwich, where his father, Mr. Georffe 

 Lindley, for many years earned on the business of a nurseryman and seedsman ; 

 but, being unsuccessful in business, he ultimately became foreman to Messrs. 

 Miller and Sweet, of Bristol Nursery, where, no doubt, many of our professional 

 readers knew him personally. The early life of the subject of this notice was not 

 distinguished by any reniarkalile occurrence. His rudimentary education being 

 obtained in his native country, he was subsequently sent to France to prosecute 

 the more advanced branches ; and, on his return, in consequence of his father's 

 reverses, he was early thrown upon his own resources. These resources were a 

 well-stored mind, great self-reliance, and a ready perception of the art of rising. 

 Soon after his return from the continent, he attracted the notice of Sir Joseph 

 Banks, by being engaged in a controversy with Sir James Edward Smith, late 

 President of the Linnean Society. Sir Joseph favored the opinion of Mr. Lind- 

 ley, and appreciating the ability of the young controversialist, he took him under 

 his patronage, and through his influence he was employed by the Horticultural 

 Society, to whose " Transactions" his father has been a contributor. 



The Horticultural Society having determined, much against the wishes of many 

 of its fellows, to occupy an extensive garden, finally arranged in 1821, for that at 

 Chiswick. 



The Garden required for its care a resident staff, and as Assistant Secretary of 

 the Garden we find, in 1822, Mr. Lindley was for the first time announced as 

 an officer of the society. As holder of that office, he had to superintend the col- 

 lection of plants, and other transactions in the Garden, besides keeping all ac- 

 counts and minutes of reports addressed to the Society's Council. 



Mr. Sabine retired from the Secretaryship, and was succeeded by Mr. Bentham, 

 Mr. Lindley continuing his Assistant Secretary. 



Mr. Lindley's connection with the Horticultural Society, sustained by his un- 

 doubted great acquirements as a Botanist, aided his rapid upward progress. The 

 Botanical liegister, established by Mr. Sydenham Edwards, in 1815, passed in 

 1826 to the editorship of Mr. Lindley, having previously been under the manage- 

 ment of his friend Mr. Bellenden Ker. The sound knowledge he here exhibited, 

 as well as in his Rosarum ^fonograjyhia, and Synopsis of the British Flora, pub- 

 lished in 1820, fully justified the University of London in placing him in the Chair 

 of Botany, from which, as Professor, he delivered his Introductory Lecture at the 

 close of April in 1829. In this he boldly made a stand in favor of the Natural 

 System of Botany, and announced his intention of adopting it as the basis of his 

 course of Instruction. Mr. Tegetmeier says, in a letter now before us :" I am a 

 very old pupil of Dr. Lindley's. Twenty years ago I took his gold medal at Uni- 

 versity College, and maintained the superiority of his teaching by taking the 

 botanical medal of the Apothecaries' Company, open to the competition of 



the students in England. We have long been strangers ; but I can truly 



