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in Latin and English "; but the Introduction says : " The Latin 

 Descriptions will be given by Mr. Wheeler, Demonstrator of 

 Botany to the Company of Apothecaries ; who has kindly under- 

 taken that part of the work : the English translation is as literal 

 as possible." In view of this specific information, it may fairly be 

 argued that the species first described in this work should be cited 

 as of Wheeler. 



With regard to the co-operation of others in the descriptive 

 portion of the Repository, Andrews himself, in the Introduction to 

 his Geraniums (1805), supphes definite information as to the first 

 six volumes. Having said that in this work the author " walks 

 alone," he continues : " But in the descriptions of five volumes of 

 his Botanists' Bepository he was assisted by gardeners and culti- 

 vators ; and in the sixth and last volume by a botanist whose 

 opinions were diametrically opposite to those of the former." The 

 five volumes, as was generally known at the time, were the work 

 of John Kennedy (1759-1842), Andrews's father-in-law, a partner 

 in the firm of Lee and Kennedy, from whose nurseries at Hammer- 

 smith the plants figured in the earlier volumes of the Bepository 

 were mainly derived. Were it not for Andrews's definite reference 

 to "gardeners and cultivators" as assisting in the descriptions, 

 one would conclude that the five volumes were entirely the work of 

 Kennedy, and notwithstanding that reference I am incHned to 

 think that such was the case — Salisbury, in the numerous refer- 

 ences to these volumes in his various works, cites no other authority. 

 Kennedy, who was evidently a capable man, seems to have been 

 willing to place his services at the disposal of others ; it is under- 

 stood that he was the real author of Pages Prodromus (1817), a 

 catalogue of the plants of the Southampton Botanic Gardens which, 

 according to the title-page, was " compiled and adjusted ... by 

 William Bridgewater Page, from the Hammersmith Nursery ": 

 this, although mainly a catalogue (and a very good one), has 

 specimen descriptions at the end, " to assist the yet unlearned 

 botanist." Kennedy's connection with the Bepository is mentioned 

 by Smith in the " addenda " to Eees's CyclopcBclia : " Kennedia, so 

 named in honour of Mr. Kennedy, the well-known cultivator of 

 Hammersmith, whose skill and experience have so much enriched 

 the works of his son-in-law, Mr. Andrews." 



The authorship of the sixth volume was announced by Andrews 

 in a notice, issued with its first part, which is preserved in the Kew 

 copy of the Bepository : this runs : — 



" Mr. Andrews begs leave to inform his subscribers that the 

 Letter-Press of the Botanists' Eepository will, in future, be 

 conducted by his friend Mr. Haworth of Little Chelsea ; a 

 gentleman well and practically versed both in the science of 

 Botany and the knowledge of Horticulture, and who has 

 access to some of the first sources of botanical information in 

 this country. Neither pains nor expence will be spared, 

 in any department of the Work, in endeavouring to make it as 

 worthy the attention of the Public as possible," 



