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gardens, and the prospective beauty of our forests than worthy David 

 Douglas. The number of herbaceous plants which he introduced 

 amounts to 100, and of trees and shrubs to 50. He was born at 

 Scone, near Perth, and served his apprenticeship as a gardener in the 

 gardens of the Earl of Mansfield. In 1817 he removed to Sir Robert 

 Preston's garden, at Valleyfield, and shortly afterwards went to the 

 Glasgow Botanic Garden. Here he attracted the attention of Dr. 

 Hooker, whom he assisted in obtaining materials for the Flora Sco- 

 tica. In 1823, on the recommendation of Dr. Hooker, he was dis- 

 patched by the Horticultural Society to the United States, where 

 he greatly increased the Society's fruit trees. He returned the same 

 year. In 1824, an opportunity offering through the Hudson's Bay 

 Company of exploring the country adjoining the Columbia and Cali- 

 fornia, he sailed in July. He touched at Rio de Janeiro, and dis- 

 covered the Gesneria Dovglassii. On Christmas day he reached 

 Juan Fernandez, which he describes as " an enchanting spot, very 

 fertile, and delightfully wooded." He arrived at Fort Vancouver, 

 on the Columbia, 7th April, 1825. Here he made a great collection 

 of seeds for the Society, along with dried specimens which now form 

 part of the herbarium at Chiswick. The Pinus Lambetiiana, a 

 native of this part of the world, was one of his finest discoveries. One 

 specimen measured 215 feet in length, and 57 feet 9 inches in cir- 

 cumference at three feet from the ground. The cones were 16 inches 

 long and 11 in circumference. The kernel of the seed is sweet and 

 is eaten by the Indians. The rosin which exudes from the trees 

 when they are partly burned, loses its usual flavour and becomes 

 sweet, and is used by the natives as sugar. The Abies Dovglassii is 

 nearly the same size. In 1827, Mr. Douglas passed from Fort Van- 

 couver across the Rocky Mountains to Hudson's Bay, where he met 

 Captain Franklin's party returning from their second expedition. 

 He returned with them to England, where he was elected free of 

 expense a Fellow of the Linnean, Geological and Zoological Socie- 

 ties, to each of which he contributed papers which display much 

 acuteness. Extracts from his letters were printed in Brewster's 

 Journal, and a new class of plants, named in honour of him by Dr. 

 Lindley, was described in Brande's Journal. After remaining in 

 I/ondon for two years, he again sailed for Columbia in 1829, where 

 he remained for some time adding to his former discoveries. His re- 

 turn to England was expected by the very ship which conveyed the 

 intelligence of his horrible death, an event which was occasioned by 

 his falling into a pit made by the natives of the Sandwich Islands for 

 catching wild bulls, one of the latter being in it at the time. 

 The Annual concludes with a Calendar and Almanack. 

 Our readers will recollect that we drew their attention formerly 

 (vol. i. 159) to the important improvement introduced into the arts 

 by Mr. George Baxter, viz., that of printing with colours from wood ; 

 and that we then augured favourably of his success, and of the pro- 

 spect which we anticipated of his improving upon the process. We 

 are happy to state, that his success has been most flattering. The 

 frontispiece to the present volume, which is printed from a plate, and 

 therefore, exhibits another improvement for which he has taken put 

 a patent, delineates a South Down sheep true to the life. It requires 



