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that a selection had to be made; there was no hard and fast line, 
pede it depended upon opinion or upon the available 
ormation whether this or that person was considered to have a 
sufcient claim to appear in the list. It would perhaps have been 
well to have put ‘‘deceased’’ in the title, because it is thus 
limited. To this limitation is icc tias due the absence of the 
names of certain persons, known promoters of Botany in their time, 
the sense of persons having an equal claim to -) Bite cv and 
sc ven ge me pees British and Irish botan 
How & safer ground when we still ‘to persons 
pocat, ie ago "asboated. William Cattley does not appear, and 
not understand why, even on the editors’ own method of 
pelection, I am reminded of this by some enquiries just received 
fro . Bretschneider, the well-known sinologue and historian 
of bine Botany. Cattley was manifestly something more than 
an ardent horticulturist. He had a garden at Barnet, where he 
cultivated many choice plants, among them a species of the 
beautiful genus of orchids wie _— him by his sive Lindley. 
Indeed sine (Jou. Bot. 1865, p. 885) would seem to have 
found some evidence that Caitley "floated Lindley's Caliganas; 
and ca s Icones Plantarum ee sponte nascentium was appa- 
rently based on drawings in Cattl 
Another name not in the In <e that occurs to me is Samuel 
Mason, of Yarmouth, who seg td at ne leva eans of the present 
century. In the Kew libra e three small quarto volumes of 
Dawson Turner, 1800, in the first volume :—‘ For the drawings 
contained in this volume I am spenely: indebted to the delicate 
pencil of Mr. Sa us Mason, of Yarmouth, a most indefatigable 
eocten, as well as a most pices observer of these plants.” 
Some of these aavre I may add, are the original figures used by 
Pacer in ba Synopsis of the British Fuci. As I have already 
hinted, I could make a considerable list of omitted names; but 
I will one. etiam one more and that is H. N. Moseley, the 
botanist of the ‘Challenger * Expediti ion, who not only collected 
largely, but also published most valuable notes on the vegetation of 
many of the remote oceanic islands. 
h iven a few examples of omissions in order to substantiate 
light concerning persons most difficult to trace,—information only 
to be found in the archives of the Botanical Department of the 
British Museum, and a perma extracted at a vast expenditure 
of time,—is deservin g of all our praise and gratitude. 
And this little book is, after all, the foundation, and a goo 
substantial — too, of the history of British and Irish botanists, 
