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The text presents a marked contrast with that of the preceding 

 volumes ; a full Latin description is in many cases given, some- 

 times original and in those instances occasionally signed " H," 

 at others cited from Jacquin and other botanical authorities, to 

 whom references are made throughout. It would appear how- 

 ever that i\ndrews was still responsible for a certain portion of 

 the letterpress, notably for that relating to Geraniums and, 

 judging from the style, for much of the popular English descriptive 

 matter. The improvement did not fail to attract the notice of 

 Sahsbury, who, writing in 1805, says that Haworth " has lately 

 written, in a much more able manner than it had been done 

 before, the letter-press of the Botanists' Bepository, a periodical 

 work which we are sorry on that account to find now given up."" 

 From this remark, and from Andrews's own reference (already 

 quoted) to " the sixth a7id last volume," it would seem that the 

 resumption of the work was not anticipated ; and this view finds 

 support in the fact that in the Banksian copy in the British 

 Museum the contents of the six volumes were rearranged in 

 Linnean sequence in four (two of text and two of plates) by 

 Dryander, who compiled a MS. index as if for a complete work. 

 Be that as it may, the first part of vol. vii was not issued until 

 1806, probably in December, thus leaving a gap of nearly two years. 

 The wrappers of the work would probably explain the circumstances 

 under which the publication of the Bepository was resumed, but 

 these I have unfortunately been unable to find : the botanical 

 notices in the Monthly Magazine, which supply much information 

 as to periodicals, did not begin until July, 1807. 



The first number of vol. vii contains a description {Protea 

 canaliculata, t. 437) which is assigned by Sahsburv (Knight Prot. 

 46) to Haworth, who himself (Suppl. PI. Succ. 36) claims that of 

 Yucca gloriosa (t. 473) ; it may be assumed that these had been 

 prepared during Haworth's editorship. The botanical supervision 

 of this and of the succeeding volumes was undertaken by George 

 Jackson, of whom some account is given in this Journal for 1886, 

 pp. 137-9 ; the portions of that notice which relate to his connec- 

 tion with the Bepository may be repeated (and in one point 

 corrected) here. Jackson was curator of Lambert's Herbarium, 

 to which reference is made in the Bepository (t. 438, etc.) ; many 

 of the drawings for the later volumes were made from living 

 plants sent by Lambert. The first reference I have found tp a 

 description by Jackson is that of Salisbury (Trans. Hort. Soc. 

 i, 290) to Serapias cordigera (t. 475), but there can be no doubt, 

 from the frequent citation to Lambert's Herbarium, that most of 

 the work in these later volumes was done by him. It may well 

 be that his death in January, 1811, contributed to the final 

 cessation of the Bepository, which from that date until its con- 

 clusion in 1814-15 appeared very irregularly. 



For Jackson's connection with the Bepository there is ample 

 contemporary evidence. The writer of the " Monthly Botanical 

 Eeport " in the Monthly Magazijie for September, 1809, expresses 



* Ann. Bot. ii, 15G (June, 1805). 



