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travelling to more remote places, and he subsequently went to 
India, Ceylon, Brazil, and Jamaica. In 1881, previous to these 
longer journeys, his collection of orchids was brought to the 
hammer, and realised £7,000. Three plants of Cypripedium 
Stunef. vdr. plfttj/famiinn, fetched over v loo. Subsequently he 
again became a collector of living orchids, chiefly of rare and 
curious kinds. But latterly he devoted much attention to the 
dried ferns he had collected on his travels. He died on 
January 15th, 1888, and his second collection of orchids was sold 
in May of the same year, when a small plant of the OyprtpediutH 
mentioned above brought the sum of £159 12s. 
For some years Mr. Day employed Mr. C. B. Durham, a miniature 
painter, who exhibited largely at the Royal Academy and Suffolk 
Street galleries between 1S2S are I 1 S5S, to make coloured drawings 
of orchids ; and from a note in the Kew Correspondence there 
were 3(>(> drawing by this artist made at a cost of £3 each. This 
collection, described as a very fine one, was sold by auction after 
Mr. Day's death, and is now the property of Mr. Jeremiah Colman, 
of Gatton Park, Surrey. 
We have mentioned Durham, because his name occurs here and 
there in Day's books, appended to the drawing of a flower or a 
plant, and because he appears to have given Day lessons in 
drawing. In Book iv., p. 10, for instance, there is the note, 
appended to a drawing of Gattleya Mcohn "My 9th lesson." 
At p 66 of the same book is a coloured drawing of Gattleya 
,s,/ "''' '* '"" V'h'}u/ms, and the following note: "Drawn by 
Mr. Durham, June, 1862 ; the first drawing he ever did here. 
This from the plant bought at Mr. Allen's sale at Stevens's in 
June, 1860, and the subject of Mr. Durham's beautiful drawing 
in Vol. vii., p. 11." 
In 1863 Mr. Day himself began sketching, the first sketch being 
dated January 10, and he continued to make drawings up to 
withm a few weeks of his death, January 15, 1888 ; the last but 
one bearing the date November 12, 1887, the last being undated. 
All of the earlier ones are in ink ; but in many places he after- 
wards added coloured sketches, always giving the date when 
done. The earliest sketches are somewhat rough and diagram- 
matic, though botanically correct ; but he improved rapidly, and 
his later work was admirably executed, both as to drawing and 
colouring. Day must have been very industrious at that period. 
for by the middle of February. 1 86 1. he was half way through his 
seventh book, where (page 45) there is a coloured figure of 
\"> >' ' ';" ' "'J"" "'" '<• with the following note : "This is 
the first drawmi , int box . 
T,! n aeUtly satisfied with the result to buy a box for 
myself. His satisfaction was quite justifiable, and his perse- 
' ^ - -uecess Practically all he 
lid ..!•• . this was coloured. In December, 1882, he wrote to Kew 
™^o n L a *■£ °/ r " us bef ° re the s enerai 
Fn«w'fi T er v*M » he n?? ght make drawi *gs of the "smaller, 
nsigmficant orchids." This was granted, and writing again in 
1886 he mentions that he had drawn at least 70 that he had not 
seen elsewhere. His last Kew drawing is dated October 29, 1887. 
*rom time to time he presented living plants to Kew. 
