XXXViIll THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE 
(pl. 3920); Stylidium ciliatum (pl. 3883); 5. recurvum 
(pl. 3913) ; Gastrolobium acutum (pl. 4040), and three or 
four years later the very showy Eucalyptus macrocarpa 
(pl. 4333), a species likely soon to become extinct. 
The seventieth volume terminates the second series of the 
Magazine, which was then (1845)* transferred from Samuel 
Curtis to Reeve Brothers, and is still held by the same firm ; 
and the title-page of the first volume of the third series 
presents a view of the great Palm-house at Kew (though 
it was not then built), which has appeared ever since. 
Another important change was made in the same volume, 
plate 4174 and onward being lithographed instead of 
engraved on copper, Fitch acting as his own lithographer. 
Further there was issued with this and the next three 
volumes a new series of the Companion to the Botanical 
Magazine, consisting of miscellaneous information, com- 
mencing with a report on the “Present Condition and 
Future Prospects of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,”’ 
which is particularly interesting. Previously, in 1835- 6, 
two separate volumes, bearing the same title, had been 
published. Volume Ixxiv. contains indexes to volumes Ixiv. 
to lxxiv. inclusive, in two sets. A noticeable feature in this 
and succeeding volumes is the inclusion of a much larger 
proportion of hothouse plants than heretofore ; and in the 
seventy-fifth volume the descriptive and historical matter is 
supplemented by remarks on the cultivation of the plants, 
signed “J. 5.” This was John Smith, who entered the 
gardens i in 1820, and retired from the curatorship i in 1864 in 
consequence of failing sight. ‘These notes were discontinued 
early in the seventy-eighth volume. 
NorasLeE TRAVELLERS AND COLLECTORS. 
Looking through the volume 1852, we meet with quite a 
new set of names of trav ellers, nurserymen, private growers 
and gardeners, who contr ibuted to its pages. Thus, Wright, 
who ‘collected in Texas and New Mexico, and after wards in 
Cuba, and elsewhere; Dr. J. D. (now Sir Joseph) Hooker, 
who went to India in 1847: Thwaites, who was for many 
years Director of the Botanic Garden at Peradeniya, Ceylon ; 
Ron Gunn, who collected extensively in Tasmania; 
James Veitch, who was still at Exeter, as well as Lucombe 
and Pince, Fortune and Standish, names intimately con- 
* It may be sg cagtteg here that volumes 68, 69, and 70 are very rare, 
in consequence (as . L. Soper, the present head of ‘the firm, 
orms me) of the Curtis family having sold the stock as waste paper. 
