338 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
‘Kew Bulletin 7, referred to. In pues on his retirement from 
er gave him a double commemoration in a 
new palm from Central America, which he named Neonicholsonia 
Georget. 
His work among British plants, however, good though it ~ 
represented a very small portion of his activities, and indeed, 
has already been said, fell into the background when he besanid 
het of the Royal Gardens. The year before his appointment 
regar 
tant work. It was esinehaded in 1889: the last volume pier 
a “pronouncing dictionary” of Latin plant-names by the Rev. 
Percy W. Myles, a et Trish —— ae interested in botany 
with whom he had become acquainted, in whose company 
Sabistetsi and I spent say detehttul averting. The Dictionary, 
although in matters of illustration and general get-up leaving 
much to be desired, remains a standard work of reference; a 
Supplement was issued in 1900- 1, but the curious “ publisher's 
does not indicate that Nicholson took part in its pro- 
was a 
produced. 
In 1893 Nicholson was ct to attend the rea ay ae Horti- 
cultural Exhibition at Ghent and in 1894 t e Colombian 
Exhibition at Chicago, at which time various oe s gave him 
the opportunity of studying the trees of the United States: he 
published accounts of these visits in the Kew Bulletin. The 
knowledge he acquired during this visit was of great service to 
the Kew ati which was under Nicholson’s special charge, 
and remains a monument of his work. In 1894 was published 
the first pattem of the Hand-list of Trees and Shrubs grown 
in the Arboretum; this was completed in 1896, and proved 
ra useful that a second and revised edition, in one volum 
was issued in 1902. According to a custom i 
at Kew es Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer’s direc pani this work 
was issued anonymously, although it was generally known that 
Saar em responsible for it; and indeed no on 
st ; 
fficial w i 
failing health caused him to retire from the Oaratorsiiin wi the 
end of July, 1901. 
a place in the memory, no account of. 
without some ree to the m qualities Mg 
endeared him to those who had the a pain af G of Boats him. My 
