78 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [APRIL, 1917- 
The foregoing, though interesting as showing some of the personal 
relations between the two men, is very incomplete, even so far as Orchids 
are concerned, and Lindley was a voluminous writer on other subjects. A 
few further details may therefore be acceptable so far as our special subject 
is concerned, and these are partly taken from a long Obituary notice which 
appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle (1865, pp. 1064-1065, 1082-1083), a 
journal which, in 1841, Lindley helped to found, and which he conducted 
with conspicuous ability for a period of nearly a quarter of a century. 
John Lindley was born at Catton, near Norwich, on the 5th of February, 
1799, being a descendant of a good Yorkshire family. His father was a 
nurseryman of considerable ability, and is known to gardeners as the 
author of A Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen Garden. He was educated at 
the Grammar School at Norwich, and shortly after leaving school, at the 
age of sixteen, he went to Belgium on business for Mr. Wrench, a well- 
known seed merchant of Camberwell. On his return he remained for a 
short time with his father, but owing to the latter’s reverses in business, 
Lindley was left to fight for himself, and, being introduced by his friend 
William Hooker to Sir Joseph Banks, proceeded to London in 1818 or 
1819, as Assistant Librarian to the latter. Sir Joseph recommended him 
to William Cattley, who was desirious of finding an Editor for his 
Collectanea Botanica, a work which was published in 1821, and which 
includes figures of Cattleya labiata, C. Loddigesii, and various others, which 
were among Lindley’s earliest contributions to Orchidology. The work, it 
may be added, was not limited to Orchids. 
In 1882 Lindley was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Horticultural 
Society of London, and soon afterwards commenced that long series of 
description of Orchids and other plants with which his name will always be 
associated. In 1824 he became associated with the Botanical Register, and 
soon became a regular contributor. Aéranthes grandiflora (t. 819), with 
the date Aug. 1824, is the first Orchid with the initials, “J.L.” In 1829 
(vol. xv.) he became Editor of the work, the title page being inscribed 
‘“‘Contributed by John Lindley.” It was thus carried on until 1847, when 
it ceased publication, though his Orchid studies were soon continued in the 
three volumes of Lindley and Paxton’s Flower Garden, which superseded 
Paxton’s Magazine of Botany. 
Besides the works above mentioned, Lindley. published separately the 
following : Orchidearum Sceletos, a sketch of the Tribes of Orchids with 2 
classified list of the genera (1826); Sertum Orchidacearum, a magnificent 
volume in folio, with beautifully-coloured plates, mostly drawn by Miss 
Drake (completed in 1838), and Orchidacee Lindeniane, an enumeration of 
the Orchids collected in Columbia and Cuba, by M. J. Linden (1846). Of 
papers contributed to serial publications no fewer than nineteen are 
