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cussion of these would be out of place here ; reference may be 

 made to the Proceedings of the Linnean Society mentioned at the 

 beginning of this paper, where the spelling of the sympode genus 

 Vaunthompsonia, named in his honour by Spence Bate, is dis- 

 cussed. In 1835 Thompson went to Sydney in charge of the 

 convict medical department, where he died on Jan. 21, 1847. 

 While in New South Wales he interested himself in the growth of 

 cotton and in varieties of the sugar-cane, on which he published 

 observations in the Journal of the Agricultural Society of India 

 in 1842-3. 



Francis Mackenzie Humberston, Lord Seaforth 

 (1754-1815). 



I take this opportunity of supplementing the very incomplete 

 account in Diet. Nat. Biogr. and in Symbolce Antillance of Lord 

 Seaforth, who has been referred to in the preceding observations, 

 confining myself to his relations with botany : a sufficiently full 

 account of his general career will be found in Diet. Nat. Biogr. 

 xxviii. 205. 



The records of his active botanical work relate almost entirely 

 to the period of his Governorship of Barbadoes (1800-1806), 

 although he had evidently before this interested himself in 

 science, as, besides the help which he seems to have given to 

 J. V. Thompson (vide supra), he was elected F.E.S. in 1797 and 

 F.L.S. in May, 1796. In Eees's Gijclopcedia he is described as 

 "a liberal and very intelligent cultivator and patron of botany, 

 who has enriched the gardens of Britain with numerous West 

 Indian rarities"; and Brown, in dedicating to him the genus 

 Seaforthia, styles him " botanices periti cultoris et fautoris." 

 Dawson Turner named in his honour Fucus Seaforthii, which 

 Seaforth " collected, with many others, during his residence as 

 Governor at Barbadoes, where he obligingly exerted himself in 

 procuring materials for this work" {Fuci, ii. 130). D. Don, in 

 his account of Lambert's collections, mentions " several hundred 

 living plants brought home by Lord Seaforth on his return from 

 his government of Barbadoes, and presented to Mr. Lambert : 

 many of these flowered in the stove at Boyton, and were added to 

 the Herbarium." " A long list of W^est Indian plants sent home 

 by Seaforth in 1804-06 forms Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 28610 f. 20 

 et seq." (Diet. Nat. Biogr.). 



BIBLIOGEAPHICAL NOTE. 



L. PoHL's ' TeNTAMEN FlOR^ BOHEMIiE.' 



The contributions of Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl (1782- 

 1834) towards a knowledge of the Bohemian flora, though impor- 

 tant, have been very generally overlooked by systematic botanists. 

 Pohl published several papers on this subject in the Botanische 

 Zeitung (1805-6) and in Hoppe's Neues Botanischcs Taschenbuch 



