to it. His kind and benevolent disposition endeared him to a 

 large circle of friends, and his hospitality to strangers, especially 

 naturalists visiting Jamaica, was almost proverbial. 



" In 1837 he printed, at Glasgow, and at his own expense, the 

 first volume of his ' Flora of Jamaica,' which extended as far as 

 the end of Leguminosae, following De Candolle's arrangement. 



" It described in popular language the then known species of 

 the island, and treated largely on the uses and properties of the 

 native plants. Its limited sale and the arduous duties of his 

 profession retarded the continuation till last year. A great portion 

 of the second volume was actually printed in Jamaica, including 

 a very considerable number of new specie* 1 , when the further 

 progress of the work was arrested by his sudden decease. He was 

 elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in the year 1838, and the 

 intelligence of his being chosen a Fellow of the Geological was 

 sent out only a few days before his decease. Besides the 'Flora 

 of Jamaica,' Dr. Macfayden wrote and published in the island an 

 account of the Nelumbium Jamaicense of Patrick Browne, and of 

 the particulars of its rediscovery, nearly a century after Browne 

 had noticed it ; and he also published several memoirs relating to 

 the commercial and agricultural welfare of Jamaica." 



It will be observed that there is a discrepancy between the 

 foregoing account in reference to the Bath Botanic Garden and 

 that given by Sir Daniel Morris in his account of the " Botanical 

 Institutions of Jamaica," Jamaica Handbook for 1001, pp. 395-400, 

 reprinted in the Kew Bulletin No. 3, 1906, p. 61. According to 

 Sir D. Morris the Bath Garden was established in 177'.', and 

 appears to have flourished until 1810. From this time on wan Is, 

 owing to the " influence of domestic trouble, want of due appre- 

 ciation of the value and nature of Botanic Gardens, or the need of 

 strict economy," the garden fell upon evil days, but was, however, 

 maintained in a very reduced state until 1824, when a Committee 

 was formed to inquire into the state of the Botanic Gardens, and 

 as a result of its deliberations it was decided to engage a botanist to 

 work up the vegetable economic resources of the island, and the 

 appointment was made of Dr. Macfayden, who arrived in the 

 island in 1825. 



At the same time it was felt that the Botanic Garden at Bath 

 was too distant from Kingston and the seat of Government to 

 answer the intention proposed, and it was recommended that a 

 Bill be brought in for the purchase of a proper place for a garden 

 in the vicinity of Kingston and Spanish Town. This appears to 

 have been the garden that Dr. Macfayden was to have formed ; the 

 Proposal, however, was not carried into execution. 



Dr. Macfavden was born in Glasgow in 1800, and died at 

 Jamaica in 1850. 



Presentations to Museums.-An interesting old plan of the 

 botanic Gardens, Kew, from the Rev. F. J. Dickinson, Went worth 

 Kectory, Isle of Ely. 



