124 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 
recommences with the date 14th May, and goes on until 3oth 
October 1765, under the new heading, “ A calendar of plants as 
they were found and prepared in the year 1765.” The first 
portion of the list is emphatically one of plants in the vicinity 
of Edinburgh. There are in it but a few records of stations far 
afield. The second portion of the list has a much larger pro- 
portion of citations of localities distant from Edinburgh.* 
The second note-book has on the fly-leaf, in Dr. Hope’s writing, 
“A Catalogue of British Plants in Dr. Hope’s Hortus Siccus, 
1768,” and the catalogue is in the same writing, with occasional 
interpolations, and there are entries of date subsequent to 1768. 
These lists of eighteenth-century records have many features 
of interest, botanical and topographical, and they show us also 
that at the period referred to considerable attention was given 
to the flora of Scotland, and that field Botany was a definite 
part of the teaching of Botany by John Hope. 
The lists are transcribed verbatim and without changes in the 
spelling—which is not altogether uniform—or the nomenclature. 
The citation of the names of collectors and of those from 
whom Dr. Hope received the specimens has this additional 
interest, that, assuming, as we may, that they were field botanists, 
we are introduced to the names of several of whom there would 
appear to be no published record. It may be worth while to 
publish here the following list of the names of such collectors or 
donors as occur in the catalogues. When the name is to be 
found in Britten and Boulger’s “ Biographical Index of British 
and Irish Botanists” that work is cited. Some of the names 
have been identified as of Graduates in Medicine of the 
University of Edinburgh, and in these cases such information 
is given as is supplied by the “List of Edinburgh Medical 
Graduates” ; where there may be a doubt in such identification, 
this is indicated. To the identity of several in the list there 
is no clue at present. 
“A transcription of this list appeared in the “ Annals of Scottish Natural 
History” for ad for party and October, 1900, and January, 1901. 
