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thirty years have passed since then, and I see Httle prospect of 

 acquiring more information than I at present possess. Incom- 

 plete as this is, it may be worth while to put it on record, in 

 the hope that, attention being called to the work, some future 

 investigator may be able to supplement this beginning. 



Concerning Andrews himself I have no information beyond that 

 in a very meagre notice in the Dictionary of National Biography 

 (i, 406), and a brief note by Mr. Hemsley in Gard. Chron. 1807, 

 i, 514 ; these give neither the date of his birth nor death, nor do 

 we even know his second name. He lived chiefly at 5 Knights- 

 bridge, which at the date at which he resided there had not 

 become part of London, and there published his books. Mr. F. G. 

 Wiltshear gives me the following note : — 



"Andrews's earliest engravings were published at 15 Ryders 

 Court, Leicester Fields, in 1794. The following year he removed 

 to 25 Denmark Street, Soho, and in 1796 to Knightsbridge, a 

 designation then used in a much more restricted sense than at 

 present to denote a terrace of houses in the district of the same 

 name. His house, no. 5, would appear from contemporary records 

 to have been situated in what is now the Brompton Road, near 

 its junction with Sloane Street, a locality then in considerable 

 favour with artists. His connection with Knightsbridge lasted 

 for nearly twenty years ; the re-issue of the Botanists' Beyository 

 in 1816 was ' published by the author at 24 Berkeley Square,' but 

 shortly afterwards he removed to 25 Sloane Street and later to 

 no. 30." 



With the first number of the Bei:)Ository , which appeared in 

 1797, was issued an address " to the public " which was omitted 

 from the so-called second edition. In this the writer lays stress 

 on the fact that all the drawings would be taken from living 

 plants, and states that " all matter necessary to illustrate the 

 subject, such as name, native place of growth, time of flowering, 

 and culture will be added." It may be noticed that no reference 

 is made here to descriptions, but on the printed title-page to the 

 first volume, where the same information appears, it is stated 

 that all the " essential characters, botanically arranged, after the 

 sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus, in English and Latin " 

 are given. The " engraved title-pages," identical with those 

 (" the whole executed by Henry Andrews ") given in the " second 

 edition," were " given gratis to complete the volumes for binding." 

 The preface, which appears also in the reprint, is dated October, 

 1799 ; the discrepancy between this and the printed title-page 

 may be explained by supposing that the latter was issued with 

 the first number and the former on the completion of the volume. 

 The work appeared monthly in half-crown numbers, each contain- 

 ing three plates ; after thirty-four had been issued the price was 

 raised to five shillings and the number of plates to five ; in 1811 

 the price was further increased to six shillings. In the text 

 accompanying t. 239 we read that " a copious Index Synonimorum 

 will be published of all the plants figured in the work at the end 

 of this volume" (iv) : but this never appeared. 



