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He was evidently a man of some literary ability ; the notices to 

 correspondents which appear on the wrapper of The Botanist are 

 bright and sometimes amusing. These show a due appreciation of 

 the two periodicals under his control — his preface to vol. i. of the 

 Botanist presents a sunilar view — and indicate that he himself 

 spared no pains to ensure success : "every process connected with The 

 Botanist and The Botanic Garden are {sic) under the guidance of 

 one individual and it is this that gives them the ' nicety of minutiae ' 

 which [a correspondent] is pleased to praise." Maund occasionally 

 exalts his work at the expense of (unnamed) contemporaries : " we 

 never shall give an extra-sized plate and count it as two .... 

 tawdry pictures are not our aim ; the plates are finished pictures by 

 the best artists." More than once, evidently in reply to criticisms, he 

 points out that the plates in the small edition, published at eighteen- 

 pence, cannot be expected to be as good as those in the larger ; it 

 would seem that the former were only partly coloured, and that 

 many ladies liked to finish the colouring for themselves. The small- 

 paper issue was indeed criticized by Noel Humphreys in the article 

 already cited : " some of the plates, from an injudicious economy, are 

 arbitrarily cut into the required square, Avithout much regard to 

 beauty of design " (Grard. Mag. 1838, 176). Maund's enthusiasm 

 for his undertakings Avas further shown by the pains he was at to 

 increase their usefulness by supplements issued apart from the text : 

 this he did for both his periodicals. 



Before proceeding to an examination of The Botanist, it may be 

 as well to complete what remains to be said about its " conductor," as 

 Maund styled himself. In 1827 he became a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society : ten years later his name appears as joint editor on the title- 

 page of the first volume of The Naturalist, but the text contains no 

 information as to the nature of his connection with it nor does it 

 include anything from his pen. " Having realized by his honourable 

 industry a moderate competence," he retired from business about 

 1853, living first at Folkestone and later at Sandown in the Isle 

 of Wight, where he was accompanied by his daughters, who had 

 taken part in illustrating his works. Here he died -on the 21st of 

 April, 1863, and was buried at Brading. 



IV. The Contkibutoes. 



Although Henslow's name alone is associated with that of Maund 

 on the title-pages of the volumes, he was by no means the only nor 

 indeed the most important contributor. The Introduction to the work 

 may probably be assigned to him, but the " eminent Botanist of the 

 Metropolis," who, as announced in the prospectus, aided " the Con- 

 ductor in the undertaking," was, as we learn from the Gardener'' s 

 Magazine for February, 1839 (p. 91), Dr. Robert Dickson (1804-75), 

 by whom " the botanical descriptions during the progress of the first 

 volume and part of the second were, it is understood, prepared." In 

 this he was succeeded by Bentliam, at that time Secretary to the 

 Horticultural Society, whose initials first appear in connection with t. 82 

 (Aug. 1838), appended to a long account of the tribe Spermacocecer 



