300 
owing to the servants having very imprudently attached Tage to the branches 
of the tree 
Scheer writing in 1840 (pp. 41, 42) refers to the original specimen of 
Araucaria imbricata 
* Still the lion of the пова» is William, who, in his we ws visits to Kew, 
never omitted going over the rien € em ey < when walking became 
inconvenient, drove through diem in ony phae d at all ints looked into 
den house, delighted to point out this Lien iie e ath strangers as might be with 
hin 
It is anything but “а superb tree” now, and only lingers on as a 
historie curiosity. 
Menzies was € з discoverer (1796) of Sequoia sempervirens, the 
redwood of Califo 
The following "particulars are taken from his epitaph. He was a 
navy surgeon, and served in the fleet commanded by Admiral Rody, 
April 12, 1782. He twice circumnavigoted the opi mi sie Captain 
Colnett and afterwards with Captain Vanco afterwards 
practised his profession in baas and died at Nc otting Ий, February 
15, 1842, aged 88 
Iti is tethatkable That Vancouver himself is — at Petersham, a 
parish чл iiem Kew was long ecclesiastically un 
Rodney’s squadron had another point of contact vam ayer и Ант 
| weed (4 Histor} of the West Indies,” vol. i., p. 477), sa 
“ This plant [the puis with iin others, as well as different kinds of seeds, 
shi 
was found on board a Frenc ip (bound from ‘the Isle de France for Hispaniola) 
d by Capt. Marshall, vi His Majesty ship ‘Flora,’ one of Lord Rodney’s 
uadron, ш s 782, = Beatty a prize to this island [Jamaica]. By Capt. 
Marshall, Lord Rod approbation, the whole collection was deposited in 
т. КОР | Gaiden x йы, where they have been cultivated with great 
assiduity and success 
CHISTOPHER SMITH. 
Christopher Smith took the place of David Nelson and went with 
Bligh on his second and successful voyage, 1791. In 1793, Captain 
Bligh brought tous in the “ Providence” a large collection of living 
d 
m 
former in the “ Hortus Kewensis.” Smith was afterwards appointed 
botanist to the East India Company, and he prepared a large collection 
of living plants at Calcutta for Kew 
In 1797 he visited the Moluccas, where he made a large collection of 
к э herbarium specimens. In 1805-6 he was at Penang, 
wher 
JAMES WILES. 
_ Indies. Three hundred young Bread-fruit trees were landed at Jamaica 
in February 1793, and placed in Ping Botanic Garden at Liguanea 
(9 miles from M ad s. under his 
From the * Handbook of Jama ca, 18 890-1 " (рр. 158-9), i тт 
us! poter, Liguanea Garden (Gordon! Town) had been formed b 
| * Mr. В an Edwards, in the * Histo: ped h st remark tex | ao 
P Aa d (sow туо British West Indies,’ " is 
bly of Jamaica, co-operating with the benevolent intentions 
