London, 



and of a monograph on British Algae (Svo, 

 1830). 



In 1829 MR. LOUDON commenced the 

 publication of his Magazine of Natural 

 History >, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, etc., 

 which formed a very valuable series, and 

 ran to 1840, making thirteen octavo volumes. 

 Mr. Loudon had the assistance of several of 

 the most distinguished specialists of the day 

 Audubon, Bell, Vigors, Forbes, Waterton, 

 and others ; and it was to the pages of this 

 periodical that Ruskin, then a youth, con- 

 tributed in 1834-6 his earliest efforts in print. 

 In his Instructions in the Use of Rudimentary 

 Series he says : 



"Mr. Loudon was the first literary patron who sent 

 words of mine to be actually set in print, in his 

 Magazine of Natural History, when I was sixteen." 



In 1831 Robert Sweet completed his Hot- 

 house and Greenhouse Manual, which I appre- 

 hend to have been the parent production on 

 that specific and vital part of the subject, and 

 which a reference to Lowndes will shew to 



