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measure to BoulgGi*'s insistence upon this. A conipreliensive summary 

 of the economic forestry of the world, published in the Transac- 

 tions of the Scottish Arboricultural Society in 1887, is an excellent 

 example of the thoroughness of his work ; since 1893 he has written 

 the notices of volumes on forestry sent to this Journal for review. 

 His book on Wood (1903) was noticed at leng'th in the volume for 

 that year (p. 20). 



It is however by his researches into the history of British botany 

 and of British botanists that Boulger will be chiefly remembered by 

 readers of these pages. The biographical sketches of i)ale (1659-1739 ; 

 Journ. Bot. 1883, 193), and Uvedale (1642-1722; (1891, 9)); the 

 papers on "Joseph Andrews and his Herbarium" (1918), on the 

 elder Tradescant as " The First llussian Botanist " (1895, 33), on 

 ** Jonathan Stokes and his Contemporaries" (1914), and on "A 

 Seventeenth Century Botanist Friendship " (1918, 197), may be 

 cited as examples of the detailed information which Boulger possessed 

 in so eminent a degree, and was able to convey in a manner as inter- 

 esting as it was accurate. In the direction of biography, reference 

 must be made to his numerous contributions to the Dictionary of 

 National Biography, and to his work on our Biographical ludcjs 

 of British and Irish Botanists, which, printed in serial form in this 

 Journal from 1888 was issued as a volume in 1903. Since that date 

 Boulger and I had been steadily working at a new edition of this, the 

 production of which was hindered by the cost of printing ; we had 

 hoped to produce it during the present year and Boulger was engaged 

 in the preparation of the introductory matter. It is sad to think 

 that the new edition, should it appear, will include the name of one 

 who had taken so active a part in its preparation — as well as, in all 

 probability, that of the present writer, for the prospect of publication 

 is still remote. 



It was not only in this Journal that the fruits of Boulger's 

 biographical and bibliographical researches appeared ; in the pages 

 of the Essex Naturalist he published numerous papers and notes re- 

 lating to the botanists of the county. Before 1883 he was engaged 

 in tracing the history of Essex botany ; his papers dealing with the 

 subject, which he treated chronologically, began in the Essex Natu- 

 ralist for 1899 and, continued at intervals, were unfortunately not 

 completed. As was natural, the great Essex naturalist attracted his 

 attention ; his paper containing " Unpublished Material relating to 

 John Ray" {Essex Review, 1917) contains nmch information derived 

 from the Bodleian and other sources, in addition to that which he 

 had already published in. the Transactions and Journal of the Essex 

 Field Club and in the Essex Naturalist. Boulger's last undertaking 

 in the direction of biogi-aphical and historical research was the " Out- 

 line History of Botany in Surrey " (fortunately already in type) 

 prepared for Mr. C. E. Salmon's forthcoming Flora. For many years 

 he had contributed weekly to The Times interesting and well-informed 

 articles on Kew Gardens. This enumei'ation of Boulger's writings 

 is bv no means complete, but is sufficient to sliow the wide scope of 

 his botanical interests and the range of his publications. Of Boulger's 



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