BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 297 
compliment to ‘ the ate Mr. Kennedy, a partner in the vores 
of Lee and Kennedy.” But a reference to Vent 
Jardin de la Matmaison, il. t. 104, where the genus was established. 
a that the “M. piers ts célébre cultivateur,”” whom it 
commemorates, was then alive; the volume bears. date 1804, and 
Lewis “died | in 1783. This is  hirthied vid enilaa in the Addenda to 
Rees’s oes ee Kennedia) (1819), where the ‘“ well-known 
cultivator of Hammersmith” to us 10m the genus was dedicated i is 
John Kennedy was born at the Visieyiet Paterno on 
Oct. 30, 1759. In November, 1783, he bec member of the 
firm 
the sons of the two founders until 1818, when they dissolved 
partnership, and it became the sole property of ert Lee. John 
Kennedy was a constant contributor “8 again ~ five eae 
(1799-1808) of H. C. Andrews’s Botanists’ Repository, and i 
lesser degree to later volumes. This is data bliciad! $y. the habbidiuits 
from the singe in Salisbury’s writings—e. g. i 
Soe. i. 261-366, where other contributors to Andrews’s work a 
madisated, “dae in Knight’s Proteee. In the Addenda to Rees, 
already quoted, it is stated that “his skill and Saas have 
much enriched the works of his son-in-law, Mr. Andre Ac- 
cording to Fotinsiii "(Hist Engl. Gardening, 801), Rerinedy was 
‘considered to be the author of Pag ge’s Prodromus’’—a list of the 
plants bate in 8 Gouthaiapten Botanic rica sae 
in London in 1817. Page went to Southampton from the Hammer- 
smith Wieety: having Taaaeiiéd a daughter of John Ken nnedy. In 
addition to the catalogue, the book contains “a cursory review of 
the principles on which a sexual ba of Botany is established ; 
After leaving Hamm erstith pi Bithhedy went tham,. Kent, 
ae he died on Feb. 18, 1842, and was bur Hai For much 
the above information I am indebted to Mr. James Lee, a 
dence fi of the founder of the firm of Lee and Kennedy. 
The following paragraph may be substituted for that on Lew 
Kennedy in bs a and for that on John Kennedy in this pple 
for 1903, p. 3 
Kennedy, sang (1759-1842) : ie Vineyard, rete ae! 
80 Oct. 1759; d. Eltham, Kent, 18 Feb. 1842; bur. Eltham 
eryman ontrib. itory of H. 
(his son-in- law). Author of ‘ Page’s Prodromus,’ 1817. Journ. Bot, 
1904, 297; Johnson, Hist. Gardening, 301; Rees, Addenda; Ven- 
tonat, Jard, Malmaison, t. 1804, Keanedia Vent. 
Joun Stuart Mrun (1806- -1878). 
‘‘T remember onee, in nee division lobby, asking him wheter it 
re true that he was prepar g a Flora of the depa: rtment of Vau- 
use, ‘ Yes,’ he said, ‘ eo a Plora of every district | in which 
T settle. I made a Flora of Surrey.’ 
Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff’s Votes from a Diary, aa ee i. 187, 
Journat or Botany.—Vou. 42. (Oct, 1904.]} 
