356 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



Part iii., Flora Tasmanica, or the Botany of Van Diemen's 

 Island, in 2, or probably 3, volumes, illustrated with 200 

 plates." The publication extended over a period of sixteen 

 years, and, as is not uncommon in works of this magnitude, 

 certain modifications in the scheme were found necessary 

 during its progress through the press ; the numbers did not 

 appear regularly and were not uniform in extent. The present 

 note is an attempt to supply information as to the contents of 

 each number and approximate date of issue. 



I. — Flora Antarctica. 



The dates of the receipt of the numbers of the Flora Antarctica 

 by the Linnean Society are given by Dr. Daydon Jackson in this 

 Journal for 1912, p. 285, but his information as to the contents 

 of each number is inaccurate. To obtain correct details, I have 

 searched contemporary literature with very fair success ; the 

 only chance of further results seems to be in finding a copy in 

 its wrappers as issued. The first number, which according to 

 Hooker (Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 30 (1845) ), was published on 1 June, 

 1844, contained the summary of the voyage (pp. i.-xii), chart of 

 the South Circumpolar regions, pp. 1-16, and plates 1-8 ; it is 

 reviewed at length in the Annals of Horticulture for 1846, p. 135, 

 and by Lindley in the Gardeners' Chronicle for the same year, 

 p. 446. The latter review, which is very outspoken in its criti- 

 cism of the lack of botanical results from former expeditions, was 

 printed by the publisher of the Flora on the wrapper of No. 2 

 without consulting Hooker. This caused Hooker much annoy- 

 ance ; he gave instructions for a new wrapper to be issued, and 

 at the same time attempted to secure the return of those copies 

 already sent out. The criticism was of course levelled at Eobert 

 Brown, and in an apologetic letter to him, now in this Depart- 

 ment, Sir W. J. Hooker, under date 2 August, 1844, explains his 

 son's endeavours to dissociate himself from any sympathy with 

 the reviewer's remarks. 



The date of receipt of several of the sheets is indicated in the 

 British Museum copy ; pp. 17, 33, 49, and 65 are all marked 

 " 44.10.7," i. e. 7 Oct. 1844 ; p. 81, " 44.12.3 " ; p. 93, "44.12.31 " ; 

 p. 113, " 45.12.3 " ; that the foregoing is a correct record of the 

 contents of the several numbers is substantiated by Hooker (I. c), 

 and by a passage in the Botanische Zeitung, iii. 568: — Theil 1-8 ; 

 Jeder Theil enthalt 2 Bogen Text u. 8 lith. Taf." The first part 

 concluded with p. 208, the second continuing with p. 209. The 

 following sheets of this part are dated in the copy at Bloomsbury ; 

 p. 257, "46.4.6"; p. 301 [bis] , "46.9.15"; p. 349, "47.2.1"; p. 397, 

 "47.9.3"; p. 429, "47.2.29." Pritzel, Thesaums, ed. 1, 123 

 (1847), gives the contents of Nos. 1-14 as pp. xii. 272, tt. 1-112, 

 and this is confirmed by a notice in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 1846, p. 135. It appears from Boss's Voyage, ii. 261, that p. 385 

 occurred in No. 22. 



In Sir Joseph Hooker's letters to M. J. Berkeley, now in this 



