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WILLIAM PAMPLIN. 523 
observations made during several visits between 1836 and 1854. 
He also contributed to the Magazine of Natural History in 1886 and 
1839. 
In 1854 Mr. Pamplin =n Mr. oe Irvine on a 
Phytologist, and afterwards pane ed in a separate form. After his 
retirement Mr. Pamplin endeavoured to establish, at his home at 
Liandderfel, a Central Bota tiloal Garden for North Wal 
t was, however, by his enterprise as a publisher ‘that Mr. 
Pamplin was best known among his contemporaries of the fourth 
and fifth decades # the century. A complete list of all the works 
place here. The mention of the more important will, however, 
suffice to show that he issued some notable books. Sir W. J. 
ooker’s een Filicum, a work in five volumes, appeared thie 
1856 and 1864; the same author’s Century of Ferns and Sec 
Century of Ferns, in 1854 and 1857; Boott’s Illustrations of he 
enus Carex in 1858; we may add Hooker and Thomson’s Flora 
Indica, Thwaites’s adi Plantarwn Zeylanie, and Bromfield’s 
Flora Vectensis. Mr. yaa also published Ralph’ s reprint of the 
works “i ao J Ship 
When, in 1854, on the death of Mr. Luxford, its vrai the 
Sab tisation of the Phytologist was suspended for a time, it was Mr. 
plin who, in May, 1855, undertook the issue of the new series, 
be feared that loss rather than gain was the result of the ‘Abs 
ment, and the Phytologist ceased altogether on the retirement of 
f. Pamplin in 1863. 
It was doubtless the knowledge of the interest which Mr. 
is kn 
of a visit to this anlar is ia daoten 
art to the circumstance that he had 
Mr. Hunn 
an Ass 
sand geese» by the genus Hunn 
was elected an Saas of the Linnean Socie 
lety on 
Jan. 19th, 1880, while still an assistant in his father’s nursery, so 
