PRINCIPAL GARDENERS—WILLIAM MCNAB. 303 
Tankervilles. He is going on very well. Mr. Chandler is very 
well and has two sons to Succeed him in the Business. Miss Page 
is married to Mr. Paine a Butcher at East Sheen. If you had any 
Claims there you are Behind. 
Mr. Millar still Continues at Kew with Mr. Pepper. He is very 
well. I saw him this Evening. He ire his Best Respects to 
you and [ was to say all your friends are w 
There has been several Great Men died within this 6 months in 
this Country. Mr. Pitt died about 3 months ago, and Lord Nelson 
wa 
and Spain off Cape Trafalgar. His Loss has Been very much 
Regretted in this Countr 
It does not come within the limits of this Letter to give you a 
ational pete since Ton. left the Country. It is sufficient to say 
at Mr. Fox indham and most of the old eneaed 
expec 
Had I thought on it sooner I should have hich you a few of the 
take another opportunity. 
I should be very proud of a few lines from you when you have 
an opportunity and Remain Dear Sir 
Very faithfully yours, &c. 
Mr. Wm. Kerr, (Sgd.) | Wm. McNas. 
Botanist, 
Canton. 
Arrived in Edinburgh, McNab threw himself into his work 
with what enthusiasm and success we may learn from the follow- 
ing contemporary comments :— 
“A new superintendent (Mr. MacNab) has recently been 
appointed, in the place of Mr. Somerville, whose death we 
mentioned in the Magazine for March last. Mr. MacNab has for 
many years been employed in the Royal Gardens at Kew, and has 
thus had great experience in the cultivation of exotics. Through 
the kindness of his botanical friends in the south, he has already 
introduced into the Edinburgh Garden many of the new and rare 
Species of stove and greenhouse plants, which were never before 
cultivated here. Among these are a number of New Holland 
plants, particularly six species of pussies. and two of the rarest 
of the Mimosa tribe.”} 
1 Dr. Neill in Scots Magazine, LXXII (1810), p. 367. 
