liv THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE 
came the Flora Antarctica, two volumes, 1844—1847, with 
198 plates; then the Flora of New Zealand, two volumes, 
1852-1855, with 130 plates; followed by the Flora of 
Tasmania, two volumes, 1855—1860, with 200 plates. Sir 
Joseph Hooker’s subsequent travels in India, where he 
formed, in conjunction with Dr. T, Thomson, perhaps the 
largest herbarium ever made on any single expedition, were 
equally productive. Besides the magnificently illustrated 
work on Himalayan Rhododendrons, which was published 
from 1849—1851, he was the author, and Fitch the artist, 
of the equally splendid Illustrations of Himalayan. Plants, 
selected from the drawings of the deceased J. F. Cathcart. 
This appeared in 1855, and contains twenty-four large folio 
plates. It would be beyond the scope of this sketch to 
give particulars of Sir Joseph Hooker’s numerous other 
works, 
It was not my intention to say anything about foreign 
illustrated botanical serials; but there is one point in connec- 
tion with some of them that deserves recording here. In 
1845 the Flore des Serres et des Jardins de ? Hurope was 
founded at Ghent, and the early volumes consist very 
largely of copies of the plates published in the Botanical 
Magazine, Botanical Register, Hooker's Himalayan Rhodo- 
dendrons, and other English works. In 1851 Lemaire, one 
of the original editors of the Flore des Serres, started the 
Jardin Fleuriste, the plates of which, to an even greater 
extent, are reproductions from the Botanical Magazine. A 
still more flagrant instance of piracy is that of Reichenbach’s 
Flora Exotica, a publication of five volumes, containing 360 
plates, probably half of them copied from the Magazine 
without any sort of acknowledgment. 
Here I must conclude the third period, with the conscious- 
ness that I have left many things unnoticed that merited 
attention equally with many of those I have mentioned. 
FOURTH PERIOD: 1865—1887. 
Sir Joserpu Hooker. 
This period being essentially contemporaneous with the 
existing generation of horticulturists, | intend confining 
myself almost entirely to the history of the Botanical 
Magazine. There are several reasons for this course, the 
most weighty of which is the fact that this sketch has 
already exceeded the limits anticipated. 
