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The Botanical Magazine. When Sir William Jackson Hooker as- 

 sumed in 18^27 llie editorial control of The Botanical ^Magazine he adopted 

 the plan of dedicating the yearly vohime to a man or woman distinguished 

 in botany or horticulture, or to one of the great i)atrons of horticullure. 

 This plan has been followed by succeeding editors up to the i)resent day. 

 In 18j0 Sir Josej)!! Dalton Hooker who had followed his fallier as editor, 

 dedicated the seventy-sixth volume to Dr. Jonx Torrey of New York, 

 "the distinguished author of The Flora of North America,'^ and the next 

 year the seventy-vscventh volume was dedicated to Asa Gray by his *' af- 

 fectionate and faithful friend the author," No other American was hon- 

 ored in this way until 1911, when Sir David Prain dedicated the one hundred 

 and thirty-seventh volume to Professor Sargext, the Director of the Arl)o- 

 retum, and now the volume for 1919 is dedicated '*to Ernest TIexuy Wil- 

 son, Assistant Director of the Arnold Arboretum, whose ardour as an ex- 

 plorer and judgment as a collector have added to our gardens many eastern 

 Asiatic plants whose portraits embellish The Botanical Magazine." It is 

 interesting that of these four men living in America (Mr. Wilson is a British 

 sul)ject) who Iiave been honored in this way three have been connected with 

 Harvard, 



