ROBERT POCOCK. 1 1 3 



spy and cashiered from the English service. Thurs- 

 day the officer went from Gravesend to London." 



It was mentioned (at an earlier period of this 

 work) that in or about the year 1817, Pocock began 

 his new collection of dried plants in five quarto volumes, 

 each volume containing about 600 pages. 



Tii is work was the source of great delight to him, 

 and the accumulation of its contents the aim and 

 object of many a long piece of pedestrianism in the 

 neighbourhood of Gravesend and the more distant 

 parts of the county of Kent. 



If he had been able to have completed the collection, 

 they would probably have contained some 5000 speci- 

 mens, divided in the following manner: 



The first volume containing classes 1 to 5 ; the next, 

 5 to 9 ; the third, 9 to 15 ; the fourth, 15 to 20; and 

 the fifth, ferns. 



The following (p. 114) is a reduced fac-simile of the 

 title-page which Pocock prefixed in his own hand to the 

 first volume, and in the records of his many receptions 

 of naturalists and other friends it would seem to have 

 ever been a prime pleasure to him to produce his 

 "Hortus Siccus;" while on the preceding page (112) 

 is shown a reduced drawing of one of its leaves, 

 showing his mode of annotating the specimens : 



