384 NOTICE. 



period of twenty-seven years. It may be of interest to give the 

 names and dates of the various sets : — 



Botanical Miscellany (3 vols.) 1830-33. 



Journal of Botany (4 vols.) 1834-42. 



London Journal of Botany (5 vols.) 1842-48. 



Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 



(9 vols.) 1849-57. 



The * Phytologist ' (Old Series) began in 1844 and ended in 

 1854 ; while the ' Botanical Gazette ' extended from 1849 to 1851. 

 It would appear that there must have been some special impetus 

 given to botany at the time the ' Gazette' was started, inasmuch as 

 there were then existing three botanical journals — the 'Gazette,' 

 the 'Phytologist,' and the 'Journal of Botany and Kew Garden 

 Miscellany' — a fact which is somewhat surprising to those who 

 know how difficult it is to maintain one at the present period. 

 Between 1857 and 1863, when Dr. Seemann started the Journal 

 of which the volume now closing is the twentieth, the only 

 botanical periodical was the new series of the ' Phytologist,' 

 which never attained any recognised position as a scientific 

 magazine, and of which the last number was issued in July, 

 1863. Dr. Seemann's 'Journal of Botany, British and Foreign ' 

 was issued in monthly numbers at two shillings, each containing 

 a coloured plate. Among the contributors to the first volume it 

 is pleasant to find many who have been constant supporters 

 of the work, and whose names appear also in the twentieth. 

 Prof. Babington, Mr. Baker, Mr. Briggs, and Dr. Hance may 

 be specially named as having contributed largely to whatever 

 success the Journal may have attained; others whose names 

 are famihar to the reader of 1882 are Dr. Masters, Mr. Townsend, 

 and the present Editor. 



" Dr. Seemann conducted this Journal at a considerable loss, 

 and at the end of 1869 this loss and his many other engagements 

 determined him to give it up. A strong effort was, however, made 

 by some of the leading English botanists to keep the Journal alive, 

 and Dr. Seemann availed himself of the XDrofl'ered assistance of 

 Mr. Baker and Dr. Trimen in his editorial duties." "^^ With the 

 view of securing more support from those interested especially in 

 British botany, that branch of the subject was made a more 

 prominent feature in the Journal ; and the price was at the same 

 time lowered to twelve shillings a year. At Dr. Seemann's death, 

 in 1871, the money responsibihties of the Joiu-nal were undertaken 



* Journ. Bot. 1872, p. 4. 



