XX. Mensies' Journal. 



wished to return with his drawings about the year 1817. He died in 

 Barcelona in 1819 and most of his drawings were lost. 



Copies, however, were made at Geneva of many of them, but as 

 the work was hurried, it is said that they were much inferior to the 

 originals. 



The editor is greatly indebted to wSir David Praine, Director of 

 the Royal Gardens, Kew, for photographs and notes of plants and for 

 transcripts of Menzies' letters; to Mr. James Britten for information 

 as to the Menzies' plants in the Banks Herbarium at the British 

 Museum; and to Professor C. V. Piper, of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., for varied assistance 

 rendered for many years. 



C. F. NEWCOMBE. 



