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botanist, and settled at Ilalesworth, in Suffolk. Here was laid tlie foundation 
of his herbarium, and here commenced a long series of botanical works, the 
principal ones of which are : — Journal of a Tour in Iceland. 1811. 8yo. — ■ 
Plantse Cryptogamicse Coll. Humboldt et Bonpland. 1816. 8vo. — British 
Jungermanniae. 1816. 4to. — Flora Londinensia. 2nd edit. Edited and Con- 
tinued. 1817-1828, 5 vols. foUo.— Musci Exotici. 1818-1820. 2 vols. 8vo. 
Flora Scotica. 1821. 2 vols. 8vo. — Botanical lUiistrations. 1822. Folio. 
Exotic Flora. 1823-27. 3 vols. Svo. — Account of Sabine's Arctic Plants. 
1824. 4to. — Catalogue of Plants in the G-lasgow Bot. Garden. 1825. 8vo. — 
The Botany of Parry's Third Voyage. 1826. 8vo.— British Flora. 1830. 
Svo. — British Flora Cryptogamia (excl. Fungi). 1833. 8vo. — Characters of 
Genera from the British Flora. 1830. Svo. — Flora Boreali- Americana. 1833- 
1840. 2 vols. 4to.— Letter on the Death of the Duke of Bedford. 1840. 4to. 
Notes on the Botany of the ' Erebus ' and ' Terror.' 1843. Svo. — Species Fili- 
cum. 1846-64. 5 vols. Svo. — A Century of Orchidese. 1846. 4to. — Kew 
G-ardens. 1847. 16mo. — The Botanical Paper in the Manual of Sc. Inquiry. 
1849. Svo. — ^Victoria Eegia, 1851. Folio. — Museum of Economic Botany at 
Kew. 1855. 8vo.— FHices Exoticse. 1857-1859. 4to.— The British Ferns. 1861, 
1862. Svo.— Garden Ferns. 1861, 1862. 8vo.—A Century of Ferns. 1854. Svo. 
— A Second Century of Ferns. 1860. Svo. — Hooker and Taylor, Muscologia 
Britannica, 1818. Svo. — Hooker and Greville, Icones Filicum. 1829-1831. 
2 vols, folio. — Hooker and Walker Arnott. The Botany of Beechey's Voyage. 
1841. 4to. — Hooker and Bauer, Genera Filicum. 1842. Svo. — The Botanical 
Magazine. 1827-65. 38 vols. 8vo.— The Journal of Botany. 1834r-1842. 4 vols, 
Svo. — Companion to the Botanical Magazine. 1835-1836. 2 vols. Svo. — The 
London Journal of Botany. 1842-1848. 7 vols. Svo. — Journal of Botany and 
Eew Garden Miscellany. 1849-1857. 9 vols. Svo. — Icones Plantarum, 1837- 
1854. 10 vols. Svo. An increasing family and a decreasing income induced him, 
ia 1820, to accept the Ecgius Professorslzip of Botany in Glasgow, at which place 
the next twenty years of his life were passed. In 183G he received the honour 
of Hanoverian knighthood, from William IV., and in 1841 his connection with 
Scotland terminated, and a new era of his life began with his appointment to 
the Directorship of the Eoyal Botanical Gardens at Kew. Sir William's ap- 
pointment was drawn up by Earl Bussell ; it gave him a salary of £300 a year, 
with £200 to hire a dwelling-house for himself, which should be large enough 
to contain his hbrary and herbariumj the latter requiring no fewer than 
twelve ordinary-sized rooms for then* accommodation. This was afterwards 
increased to £800 a year, with an official house in the gardens, and accom- 
modation for his herbarium in the residence of the late King of Hanover. 
Though his public duties naturally attracted the most attention, his scientiHc 
labours not only did not cease on his coming to Kew, hut were literally doubled, 
Eising early and going to bed late, and rarely going into society, the whole of 
his mornings and evenings were devoted to botany. The * Species -Filicum ' 
was prepared wholly at Kew ; and, when to this we add that he published, 
from his own pen, upwards of fifty volumes of descriptive botany, it mu^t be 
confessed that his public career has in no way interfered with his scientific one. 
