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by von Mohl some years before, but he had refrained from 

 publishing his observations from over-cautiousness. 



As a translator and editor Henfrey was responsible for the 

 English edition of von Mohl's Principles of the Anatomy and 

 Physiology of the Vegetable Cell, published in 1852, for two 

 volumes of Reports on Botany in the Ray Society's publications, 

 whilst he had a considerable share in Lankester's translation 

 of Schleiden's famous Principles of Scientific Botany, 1847. In 

 addition to these there were constant abstracts and critical 

 reviews from his pen in the Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History a journal of which he became botanical editor before 

 the close of his life. 



As a writer of text-books Henfrey was very prolific. First 

 came his Outlines of Botany, 1847, followed by the Rzidinients 

 of Botany. Much more ambitious was his Elementary Course of 

 Botany which became a standard text-book running through 

 numerous editions after his death, under the editorship of the 

 late Dr M. T. Masters. To these must be added, in conjunction 

 with Griffith \ the Micrographic Dictionary, a substantial volume 

 dealing in innumerable special and general articles with the 

 microscopic study of plants and animals. This work was no 

 mere compilation, but embodied in its pages is a very large 

 amount of independent observation. The illustrations covering 

 nearly fifty plates were by Tuffen West, and reached a high 

 degree of excellence. A well known botanist, a contributor to 

 the present volume, has more than once assured me that it was 

 to the Micrographic Dictionary that he owed his salvation ! 



Should anyone desire to get a vivid and accurate picture of 

 the precise state of Botany in this country at the middle of the 

 last century, he cannot do better than turn over the pages of 

 The Botanical Gazette, a monthly journal of the progress of 

 British botany, founded and conducted by Henfrey. It was 

 about the size of our own New Phytologist, with which it had 

 not a little in common. In one respect it differed ; unlike the 

 New Phytologist the Gazette was financially a failure and after 

 carrying it on at his own expense for three years (1849 1^5 1) 

 Henfrey had to relinquish the undertaking. 



1 Not the William Griffith of the last chapter. 



