XxvVili THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE 
Botanical Magazine have all the appearance of very early 
efforts, and the subjects are mostly poor. With few 
exceptions, J. Curtis furnished the drawings for succeeding 
volumes, nearly to the end of the fifty-third, and had it not 
been for the literary and occasional artistic contributions of 
Dean Herbert, Dr. Greville and others, the magazine would 
have been a sorry affair indeed. ‘Towards the end of this 
period various members of the Curtis family, including 
A. C. Curtis, a daughter of Samuel, and the mother of Dr. 
Albert Curtis, of Staines, contributed a few plates, and we 
find the names E. Duncombe, R. K. Greville and others. 
But what is a greater surprise, the names of Sydenham 
Edwards and James Sowerby, both of whom were now 
dead, reappear in the forty-ninth volume; see 2328 by 
Sowerby, and 2346 by Edwards. There are several plates 
from drawings made by Edwards early in the century ; the 
last I have detected being Daviesia acicularis (2679), 
published in 1826. Plate 2683 (Hesperis grandiflora) was 
rawn by J. Sowerby, and the letterpress accompanying 
it, including generic and specific characters, consists of 
ten lines!’ The Botanical Magazine was evidently, then, 
exceedingly near extinction; but powerful aid was at hand, 
and, pheenix-like, it suddenly far outshone the glory of any 
period of its previous existence. Dean Herbert furnished 
drawings and letterpress for an entire part, which equals if 
it does not surpass anything that had been accomplished 
since the proprietor had lost the services of Sydenham 
Edwards. Then, on pl. 2689, we first meet with the 
initials W. J. H.—William Jackson Hooker! This event 
signalizes the beginning of a new and flourishing era 
in botany and horticulture, the history of which belongs to 
my next period. 
Bare mention has been made of Sir Joseph Banks’s intro- 
ductions into our gardens. He and Solander, with Captain 
Cook, landed in Botany Bay, New South Wales, in 1770. 
George Caley, a botanical collector, was subsequently 
supported by Banks during a ten years’ residence there. 
Menzies, who was attached to Vancouver’s expedition, 
collected in Western Australia and other parts of the world 
some twenty years later. To them succeeded Robert 
Brown, “ Botanicorum facile Princeps,’” who accompanied 
Flinders, leaving England in 1801, and returning in 1805 
with immense collections of dried plants, almost wholl 
Australian. Through him, too, English gardens were 
greatly enriched with Australian plants, especially such as 
could be raised from seed; and, as we learn from the 
