102 JOHN ZIER, F.L.S. 
botanists. By his contemporaries, however, he seems to have been 
both known and esteemed, and it ie be worth while to print what 
I have been able to find out abou 
ohn Zier was a Pole by vet “He was elected F.L.S. 
March 18th, 1788 (the second meeting of the Society), being ino 
—. in Castle Street, Leicester Fields, London; he subsequently 
sided in Pimlico. The chief interest about him seems to centre 
now bears his name, Smith writes, “‘In memoriam pie defuncti 
Johannis Zier, Soc. Linn. quondam Sodalis, botanici indefessi, 
nobis non obliviscendi quamvis alio sub nomine labores ejus sepius 
inclaruerint.”* And in the ‘ Botanists’ nied gee t. 606 (1810), 
would, we fear, have far less pretensions than Zier.” This note 
was written by George aia who ea? bly = with feeling, 
inasmuch as he seems to have been similarly ted ; a notice 
of Jackson will, I hope, sae follow the Aca pai Sims t 
speaks of Zier as ‘ our late friend Mr. Zier, a learned and in- 
industrious ae we are most rag to confirm by our own 
testimony. -was no less meritorious in his private ‘characte, 
d bore with modesty and patience those privations which too 
often belong to literary merit in a — country, especially where 
canting and time-serving are out o f the question. We have beet 
informed that - Zier was the ‘coadjutor of Mr. William Curtis 
=e eaten ‘ahieks make the oe merit of the work. Mr. Zier 
died oe the year 1796, perhaps rather earlier, at no advanced 
period 
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way borne ut by any internal a afforded by jeaeae ‘ Flora . 
Loudinensis nor is anything in support of it to be gathered from 
the biographies of Curtis in Gent. Mag. 1799, in memoirs by his 
son ge Ia to the ‘General Indexes’ to the first 53 
: 2 = pees Linn. Soe. iv. 316 (read tin th, Sek _ + Bot. Mag. t. 1395 (1811). - 
