THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



JUNE, 1842. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS, 



Art. I. The Monument in Memory of the Botanist Douglas : con- 

 taining, 1. Report of the Committee; 2. Engraving and Descrip- 

 tion of the Monument, with a Copy of the Inscriptions ; and 3. List 

 of the Subscribers. 



I. REPORT OF THE DOUGLAS MONUMENT COMMITTEE. 



Read on the 29th of April, 1842, before the General Committee. 



The labours of the Committee, which commenced on the 23d 

 of Nov. 1835, being about to close, it may be proper to take a 

 very brief view of its proceedings, with the result to which they 

 have led. 



In the outset, high expectations were entertained of the 

 liberality of the public in conferring marked respect on departed 

 genius, which had contributed so much to the advancement of 

 botanical science, and to the flora of Europe, and which had 

 perished in the undertaking ; and, under these expectations, a 

 plan or scheme was proposed for perpetuating the memory of 

 Douglas, and for conferring a benefit on his relatives. To 

 carry out this view, Subscription Papers were forwarded to the 

 most influential botanists in Britain and Ireland, but the returns 

 were much more limited in their lists of contribution, than was 

 expected. 



On the 6th of May, 1836, the Committee issued circulars 

 calling in all Lists of Contributors' Names by the first of July 

 following, when, at the earnest request of J. C. Loudon, Esq., of 

 Bayswater, London, the period was lengthened, and through 

 the exertions and influence of that gentleman from 80/. to 90/. 

 were added to the funds. In August, 1836, a proposal was 

 made by some subscribers in England, to confine the subscrip- 

 tions chiefly to the benefit of the two sisters of the late Mr. 

 Douglas, who were consulted on the subject; and at a meet- 

 ing of Committee, held on the 19th of August, to take the pro- 

 posal into consideration, their minute bears, that " they do not 

 consider themselves authorised to sanction any separate contri- 

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