DR. JOHN LINDLEY. ^ 387 
one of his best. The * Sertiim Orcliidaceum,' a work in folio, with beautifully 
coloured plates, mostly by Miss Drake, was completed in 1838. The ' G-enera 
and Species of Orchidaceous Plants' also came out between 1830 and 1810 ; 
and a second edition of the latter, under the title of ' Folia Orchidacea,' was 
commenced in 1852, but unhappily never completed, the last part having been 
issued in May, 1859. Many of the books mentioned were illustrated either by 
his own pencil, or by that of his two daugliters, Lindley was a contributor to 
the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, from 1822 to 1848. We have 
already alluded to the octavo Journal of the Horticultural Society, 1846-1855; 
though Lindley did not himself write much in these volumes, it is to liis careful 
editing and research that they owe their principal value. In the Tnmsactions 
of the Linnean Society we find, in the year 1820, a paper beautifully illustrated 
by Dr. Lindley on the Pomacece, and a shorter notice in a subsequent year on 
the Anatomy of the Hoots of Opliryde<2. In the volumes of the Journal of the 
same Society are also several important papers, chiefly referring to Orchidaceous 
plants. The records of the British Association also testify to liis diligence. 
In 1841 he established the ' Grardeners' Chronicle,' which offered him a widefield 
for the display of his ready and powerful pen, but which also gave the earliest indi- 
cations of his gradually decKniug strength, resulting from overwork. In 1838 
he was appointed, together with Mr. Joseph Paxton and Mr, John Wilton, 
to report on the Royal G-ardens at Kew, and he entertained some hopes of 
being appointed Director of the establishment after it should have become 
a national institution ; but in this he was disappointed, and an effort he made 
many years later to obtain a lucrative post at the India House, was also 
unsuccessful. During the Potato famine. Dr. Lindley and others were com- 
missioned by Grovemment to report on the actual state of things in Ireland. 
Tlie cultivation of the island of Ascension, on the West Coast of Africa, and the 
beneficial residts sprung from it, are also due to Dr. Lindiey's suggestion. In 
1851 lie was one of the Jurors of the Great Exhibition. In 1862 he took 
charge of the wliole colonial department of the second International Exhibition, 
With his failing health, this task seems to have been too onerous for him. He 
began to complain of headaches, and after the Exhibition was over it was 
found that his bodily and mental powxrs had received an injury from which 
they were never to recover. He was compelled to resign the Secretaryship of 
the Horticultural Society, with which he had then been connected for forty 
years. It was at this time that some of his friends subscribed for a portrait of 
him by Mr. Eddis. Soon afterwards a chaste and elegant epergne in silver 
was also presented to him, the design of which commemorated Lindiey's re- 
searches among Orchids, Rosea, and other plants. 
Although Dr. Lindiey's family and friends were aware of his precarious state, 
his sudden death took them somewhat by surprise. He retired to rest as usual 
on the 31st of October ; on the following morning he was seized with a fit of 
apoplexy, and gradually sank. He has left a widow and three children. 
Dr. Lindley was a member of about sixty scientific societies. He became a 
Fellow of the Linnean as early as 1820, and of the Hoyal in 1828. In 1832 
he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Munich, 
