64 OBITUARY, 
conjointly with Dr. Masters for the ‘ Encyclopedia Britannica’) 
he took a principal part; and he also edited the last edition of 
Thompson’s ‘ Gardeners’ bvais tant.’ In botany pure and simple, 
ferns were ae speciality. For a generation he named nearly all the 
new ferns that have been brought into cultivation, and described 
the ied In the three volumes of his ‘Index Filicum’ (1857 
—1862), he d 
proposed by Presl and John Smith, described and figured all the 
genera, and enumerated all the matin hie Wi with their synonyms 
and localities, as far down as the letter G, when t e work unfor- 
tunately 
business, and was never resumed. Under the editorial —— 
of Dr. Lindley he published, in 1856, his magnificent folio work on 
the British Ferns and ther varieties, illustrated by nature- online, 
fifty-one plates. He pub lished also a ‘Handbook’ and a ‘ Po 
y of whi i 
Latterly he paid special attention to * garden forms of Adiantum. 
His large general collection of fern s has been ‘bought for. Kew. 
he m 
for the last thirty years. At the Royal Horticultural Society he 
acted for a long time as floral director and secretary of the floral 
committee. He was one of the principal secretaries to the 
International Floral Exhibition in 1866. As a judge at flower- 
shows his services were in great request; and of all the smaller 
gardening societies, such as the Pelargonium Society, the Carnation 
Society, the Auricula Society, and the Dahlia Society, he was one 
of the most ers members, Almost the last work of any account 
whieh he did was in connection with the Daffodil Congress; with 
a 
of Narcissus, and classified them in their proper relation to the 
types acknowledged by botanists. He was singled out by onan 
consent as the one man who was able to do this, and in the 
for reconstruction of the Royal Horticultural Society it £ ill be 
most difficult to fill the place which he has occupied for a whole 
generation so diligently and so unostentatiou ‘ak 
Another gap has been made in the —. ni our veteran 
workers by the death of Grorcz Wit11aMm Jonny which took 
place on Friday, Oct. 29th, at his se ieopig “Waldro iene 
Croydon. Although not strictly a botanist, Mr. Johnson has for 
very many ere been associated with botanical and horticultural 
literature, and his ‘History of Gardening,’ published in 1829, 
remains a standard work of reference on matters connected with 
— biography and bibliography. A very img and interesting 
of Mr. Johnson, with portrait, appears in the ‘Journal of | 
tiuealtare’ for Nov. 4th ; and as this is i dena accessible, we do — 
not propose to give a detailed nage of his life. Mr. Johns — was 
born at Blackheath, Kent, on Nov. 5th, 1802 ; and in 18: 
7. The Cottage G now ‘The Journal of 1 of Horti. 
eulture’), from the Sc which he retired in 1 
