86 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



Dulau & Co. for £5 15s. 6d. The drawings form five quarto 

 volumes containing 928 leaves, each devoted to one plant, the 

 whole being arranged alphabetically under the Latin names. 

 There is a written title-page to each volume, as follows : 



" Drawings 



of the 



Leaves, Stalks, & Eamifications 



of Plants, 



for the purpose of ascertaining their several Species. 



Executed 



for the Right Honourable 



THE Earl of Bute 



in the Years 1783 and 1784. 



By John Miller ; 

 Author of the Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus." 



The drawings, which are very carefully executed and coloured, 

 are named in Miller's hand ; each is signed by him and dated 

 " 83 " or "84." Although executed for Bute, they were not 

 utilized in the Tables, which contain only figures of flowers. 

 The description on the title is entirely accurate, as no flowers are 

 anywhere depicted. This evidently struck Thomas Hadley, into 

 whose possession the volumes came, as a deficiency, and he has 

 accordingly sometimes copied on the blank pages opposite Miller's 

 figures (rather crudely) representations of the flower. I know 

 nothing of Hadley ; judging from his pencil note prefixed to the 

 first volume, he was a careful man and interested in the collection : 

 his note runs: — "In Donne's [sic] Catalogue there is a Eeference 

 to every Drawing in these five Volumes — another in my manu- 

 script M. 23 — also in my Manuscript Index M. 24 an index to all 

 the Flowers which I have placed on the lefthand Pages." A list 

 of these latter is prefixed to each volume. I do not find any 

 reference to the drawings in any edition of Donn's catalogue which 

 I have been able to consult, and we have no MSS. of Hadley. He 

 added English names to the Latin ones placed by Miller at the 

 head of each drawing, and sometimes placed at the foot references 

 to English Botany, Botanical Magazine and Botanical Begister, 

 from which his own figures of the flowers were copied. 



In the account of Miller in Diet. Nat. Biogr. no reference is 

 made to Mr. Hemsley's papers in Gard. Chron. 1887, 451," 1890, 

 i, 255. In the latter of these a detailed account is given of 

 Miller's principal work, the Illustratio Systematis Sexualis ; 

 another is given as an introduction to the German edition by 

 F. G. Weiss (1789). The Dictionary makes no mention of the 

 important work done by Miller in Philip Miller's Figures of Plants\ 



* 'i'bc date here given — 1780 — for Miller's death is incorrect: he was 

 alive in 1789. 



t A note may be added here as to the other artists engaged on this work. 

 For the drawings the chief contributor apart from Mill«"r was K. Lancake ; 

 plates 3-6, 38, 48, 57, 68, 82, 176, 177, 208, 215, 219, 220, 291 are by Ehret ; 



