﻿ough the fraud of a professedly pious bank-clerk. 

 Happily he had the consolation of receiving a pension after his 

 return to England in the middle of 1864. 



The best general account of his travels is to be found in the 

 Revue Bryologwue for 1886 (to which reference has to be made 

 further on) ; but detailed accounts occur in plenty in Hooker's 

 Journal of Botany between the years 1849 and 1857 (badly indexed 

 under the various heads of "Spruce," -Amazon," "Botanical 

 Objects communicated to Kew Museum," &c), and an interesting 

 summary will be found m this Journal for 1864, pp. 199-201 

 The Journ Geograph. Soc. xxxi. (1861), pp. 163-184, contains a 

 paper, "On the Mountains of Llanganati," volcanoes of the 

 pastern Andes not previously known. Among the MSS. which 

 Mr. Spruce brought back were vocabularies of twenty-one Amazonian 

 languages, and maps of three rivers surveyed for the first time. 



In the intervals permitted him by his bad health he applied 

 himself to the distribution of his collections to the principal 

 herbaria. The flowering plants, which were worked up by Mr. 

 Bentham, Prof. Oliver, and others, comprised 7000 species and 

 several new genera. The Ferns were dealt with by Sir William 

 Hooker and Mr. J. G. Baker; the Mosses by Mr. Mitten; the 

 Lichens and Fungi by the Bevs. W. A. Leighton and M. J. 

 Berkeley respectively . After monographing the Palms {Journ. 

 Linn. Soc 1871 , pp. 65-183) Mr. Spruce devoted the declining 

 years of his life to the study of his early favourites, the Hepatics 

 • ^o?/ P c atlCS ,° f , the Amazons an <* Andes, 1 which was published 

 in 1884-5, and forms vol. xv. of the Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh, 

 is the most logical and scientific classification of the group that 

 nas been evolved, and is based entirely upon broad and con- 

 stant characters that had previously been overlooked or under- 

 rated. In the prefatory note Mr. Spruce promised to issue a Sup- 

 plement treating of "the physical features of the regions explored, 

 ™L v 1T conn ^ fclon + . wlt 1 h the vegetation.-especially the hepatic 

 vegetation.-with critical remarks on certain of the genera and 

 in v! S Pr Tv 6 WaS f ? lfi S ed ^ the Publication of the paper 

 wSL£ abov /- Voyage fe Richard Spruce dans l'Amerique 

 equatoriale pendant les annees 1849-64' (Revue Bryolog. 1886, 

 nf ul"2 ] ' T ng *?? numerous other important contributions 

 ?L Ann^ZJ 0 . 0U f llt6 A atUre the following deserve mention :- 



•HepaticaB Bolivian*' (Mem. Torrev Bot ru.h laom • <>„a „ „„J a L 



hands of the Lmnean Society. The titles seldom convey any 

 indication of the immense amount of information to be found 

 embodied in the papers which they head. Mr. Spruce delighted 

 to lead his readers on from the immediate subject to kindred 

 matters, illustrating his arguments with copious instances 

 analogies, and original observations. Thus, after describing the 



