BIOGRAPHICAL. XXXV 
days to reach it, and even then only when available 
communication is possible.” These difficulties were 
ageravated by the fact that my holidays commenced 
with the time of harvest, which is considered early 
when it takes place at the beginning of September ; 
but then an early harvest means an early floral 
season, so that the compensation was nil. 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 
Dr WALLACE. 
The earliest list extant of Orkney plants was 
drawn up by James Wallace, M.D., F.R.S., in his 
“Account of the Orkney Islands,” published in 1700. 
This was a reprint of the work, with additions, 
which was written by his father and published in 
1693. His father was the Rev. James Wallace, 
minister of the Cathedral Church, Kirkwall, who 
died of fever in 1688 at the early age of fifty years. 
Dr Wallace prefaces his list with these notes :—* I 
did not find this country so well stored with plants 
as I expected. I found none of the Malva kind, 
nor several other plants that I thought might have 
agreed well enough with tuis country ; but such as 
I did find, | thought an account of them might not 
be unacceptable, though I ani far from pretending 
this to be so very exact as it should have heen ; 
these being the names of those only I have by me.” 
The list of plants did not appear in the Ist, the 
father’s, edition. In Dr Wallace’s edition of) 1700, 
the list occupies a prominent place in chapter 1. 
From the introductory remarks quoted above, it is 
