4 HENRY FLETCHER HANCE. 
commenced the stucy, “self-taught,” some five years’ before that. 
The follc wing list of his earliest publications will show the scope of 
the work to which he at first devoted him self :— 
1. ‘On some new Chinese plants.’ This paper (including 
descriptions of four new species) appeared in Hooker’s ‘ London 
Journal of Botany,’ vii. (1848), pp. 471-473, where the Editor 
peas of him as ‘‘a gentleman resident in Hongkong, and who, 
we trust, will do much to advance our knowledge of Chinese 
Botan 
2. «On some Chinese plants.”,—Remarks on a 4 Sepa leaf 
of Chirita sinensis. mcr oe of some new Acanthaceous 2g 
(Here he founded his first genus Gutzlafia, on merged 
Strobilanthes) ou Debates a of a new Cerastium.—Hooker’s ‘ J iene 
of Botany” 3 i. (1849), pp. 141-148. 
8. « Notes on new and little- myers plants of China ; Synaedrys, 
Quer cus, and Ipomea.” Tbid., pp. —176. 
4, On the structure of et fruit in Punica.” Henfrey 
‘ Botanical Gazette,’ ii. Keel PP- 280-283. This was frvnoint 
aout in Proc. L Sait Bi. i. (1855), pp 
. Am 3 deapaoiit e Geutisbution was ie by him to Walper’s 
: pO ee? ii. i. (1851), the Editor of which, in a note on p. 8, says: 
—‘Celeberrimus auctor benevole mecum communicavit disserta- 
tionem ineditam ‘Plantarum novarum minusve cognitarum, pree- 
- Dr. 
a publici juris redder Parts of this paper, how- 
ever, did not appear in print till the pnt oie of the third volume 
of the ‘ Annales’ oe 
6. “Sketch of the Island and Flora of a China.” 
‘ Phytologist’ A ayo pp. 881-891. This paper had been re se 
before the Linnean Society, and Dr. Ber thold i _ Meare in 
municating it, ape: :—* This article, oe with a conmidieill 
collection of Chinese plants, was given to me by my friend Dr. 
Hance to ~ fone employed in the Botany of H.M.S. ‘ Herald.’” 
In the ‘ Annales des Sciences Naturelles’ appeared the following 
ne 
te ‘ Symbol ad Flows Sinicam adjectis paucissimarum stir- 
yun japonicarum diagnosibus,”’ Ser. 4, xv. (1861), pp. 220-280. 
pulus plantarum novarum potissime Chinensium, &e, o Ser. 4, xviii. 
(1868), pp. 214-288, 
** Adversaria in Stirpes imprimis Asiz Orientalis criticas 
eel notas interjectis novarum plurimarum diagnosibus,” Ser. 
5, v. (1866), pp. raseen: Published in separate form by Masson, 
Paris, i in the — yea: 
Throug’ 
a Supplement to Mr. Bentham’s ‘ Flora Hongkongensis,’ which had 
appeared in 1861. In this paper, published in the ‘ Journal of the 
Linnean Society,’ Botany, xiii, ee pp. 95-144, 75 species were 
