2 4 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Among them is a viola and a rabus which Menzies had labelled 

 as collected in " Beering Bay, June 1788." Hooker and others 

 refer to plants collected by Menzies in the Behring Straits, 

 and presumably they base this supposition on these. However, 

 other plants are labelled by Menzies as gathered " near Mount 

 Edgecombe, June 1788." The position of this from the 

 Admiralty chart is, however, 57° 3' N., 135° 44' W., at the 

 entrance to Sitka Sound, very far away from Behring Straits. 

 There seems to be no evidence that the expedition under 

 Captain Colnett got farther up the coast than this. 



Lambert was a recipient of many of Menzies' plants, and he 

 also bequeathed to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden his herbarium 

 of grasses, sedges, and cryptogams. 



Few, if any botanists, other than Menzies, have had their 

 names bestowed on so many species, as well as on one genus. 

 No less than twenty-five plants from the north-west American 

 coast, and nineteen from the Sandwich Islands, bear his name. 

 Of the genus dedicated to him by Sir J. E. Smith, he found 

 Menziesia ferruginea in his earlier exploration of the north 

 Pacific Coast. 



Menzies subsequently served on the " Sanspareil " in the 

 West Indies, after which he retired from the Navy and settled 

 down in London to a doctor's practice. 



Mr John Forsyth is mistaken when he writes in his Bio- 

 graphical Note at the beginning of the volume that Menzies 

 became President of the Linnaean Society on the death of 

 A. B. Lambert. Neither of them was President; though 

 Menzies may well have been Father of the Society for a few 

 days, as Lambert, elected in 1788, died on loth January 1842, 

 and Menzies, elected in 1790, died at 2 Ladbrook Terrace, 

 Netting Hill, on 15th February of the same year as Lambert. 

 His body lies in Kensal Green Cemetery. Appended is the 

 inscription from the grave stone, which is now almost un- 

 decipherable ; the stone, however, is about to be restored by 

 Mr C. D. Geddes, and the lettering recut. 



Menzies' picture by Eddis hangs in the Linnaean Society's 

 rooms, and is reproduced in the British Columbia publication 

 of his Journals^ while a crayon drawing by the same artist, now 

 at Kew, is reproduced in the Honolulu publication. Eddis 

 had a long career as an artist, as he painted the writer of this 

 review almost forty years after he had painted Menzies ! 



