Preface. xix. 



There can be little doubt that the voyage under consideration 

 led to the journeys of Douglas and Scouler. The former, especially, 

 was able to complete the work of his predecessor by sending home 

 the seeds and living plants of trees and flowers of which Menzies, 

 owing to the conditions in which he worked, could only make herbarium 

 specimens. Both Douglas and Scouler acknowledged their indebted- 

 ness, and the latter uses the following words : " While in London 

 (1824) I received much important information from Dr. Richardson 

 and Mr. Menzies with respect to the countries I was about to examine. 

 The knowledge acquired from Mr. Menzies was peculiarly interesting, 

 as he had already explored the very coast I had to visit, and cheerfully 

 allowed me at all times to examine the plants he had collected on the 

 North-west Coast, and to direct my attention to those which were most 

 likely to be useful when cultivated in this country." (The Edinburgh 

 Journ. of Science, Vol. V., p. 196, foot-note.) 



Sir William Hooker, himself an admirable botanical draughtsman, 

 frequently speaks of the excellent drawings in his possession made 

 by Menzies in the field. Some of these are reproduced in the present 

 volume ; some seem to have been lost, as the Director of the Royal 

 Gardens at Kew, writing in February, 191 5, says that at that time after 

 careful search no evidence has been found of the existence of a collec- 

 tion of plant drav/ings by Archibald Menzies. 



He expressed, however, the opinion that there could be little doubt 

 that an unnamed drawing of Sanguisorba media in the Kew collection 

 is the one mentioned by Sir W. J. Hooker as having been made on 

 the spot by Menzies. Later he was good enough to send a photograph 

 of this drawing and the information that Dr. Rydberg considers the 

 plant to be specifically distinct from 6^. media L., and has proposed 

 the name S. Mensicsii. This is evidently the same plant now on our 

 lists as S. microcephala Presl., and was probably collected by Haenke, 

 who was on the North-west Coast in 1791 with Malaspina and touched 

 at many of the places visited by Vancouver's expedition. 



Although in some cases Menzies doubtless lost the honours of 

 first discovery by the fact that Pursh was entrusted with the collec- 

 tions of Lewis and Clark before he saw those of Menzies, yet the 

 latter must have gained something by the misfortunes of Mozino, the 

 botanist accompanying Quadra to Nootka in 1892, where he spent four 

 months, with a skilful artist, Echeverria. Mozino's work was to be 

 completed in Madrid, and he arrived there in 1803 and worked at his 

 various collections until the French invasion of 1808. Taking refuge 

 with DeCandolle at Montpellier and afterwards at Geneva, Mozino 



