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WILLIAM Ker. 
Ín 1803 William Ker, a gardener, was sent to collect in China. He 
also visited Java and the Philippines. He sent home various living 
plants and first pum Cunninghamia sinensis, Lilium tigrinum, 
and L. japonicum. rria japonica was named afte каш. Aa 1812 he 
became Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Саш 
In из following year he visited Adam's Peak, on which he discovered 
many new plants. He died in Ceylon in 1814 and was succeeded as 
diparhitendenit by Alexander Moon 
atter was a native of Scotland. He was at Kew in 1815. Н 
sailed for Ceylon in 1816, and on the voyage out had the сора 
of landing at Gibraltar and the Barbary Coast from whence he 
plants. He arrived in Ceylon in 1817 and the following year sei 
plants to Kew. He died in 1825. 
Тнк YOUNGER AITON. 
JJ William Aiton had been succeeded at Kew by his son William 
Townsend Aiton. John Smith (pp. vi and vii) may be again quoted :— 
« ee by Dr. Dryander, librarian to Sir Joseph Banks, and afterwards Py Mr. 
Brown, he in 1813 publi =й а et ond edition of his father's works in five 
VOBIS в and in 1814 a catalogue о me as it is called of the species мк еа 
in the five volumes, for the use of suet gardeners ; it contains . 314 additional 
species, aah A: tal number being 1 ein 
“Through the patronage of Sir seph pee and the labours of public and 
private ka йен the collection урым, to increase, which led Mr. Aiton to pre- 
са а MÀ edition of the By менеч and for their future жакны he had about 
2,000 drawings made. In 0 the manuscript of the new epitome was ready for 
кин, йн consequent on X alteration in the management of the Royal ron A 
made by William IV., it was postponed, and on Mr. Aiton’s resigning in 1841 it was 
not again heard of, an nd at his death in 1849 it is believed to have shared the fate sé 
var Ж burned with all his immense correspondence and the sate records of t 
Garden 
[n a letter published in “The Garden" (Jan. 24, 1880, p. 75) it is 
stated by Mr. Smith that “the drawings and plant record books were, 
however, spared. 
To further quote from this letter :— 
Mr. Aiton, in 1822, began to a patting ee ial the new and unfigured 
ы 8 then in the garden. His first artist was as Du — (a yoüng 
ена from uu on Botanic Garden, Edinburgh), whet had a talent for drawing 
plants; and M Ogee him qua lified to draw the plants селу dé accurate 
for them to be [теск ed, i e he was entirely Dept in е ve е S rat 
tinued to do until the iar of 1 1826, when he mmn nately became insa 
* He was succeeded by George Bond, then a youn icm er м X ec was 
employed in drawing for nine dew when i - и, һе rne gardener to the Earl 
of Powis, at Walcot, where he no "The napos er of subjects Grawn by 
ib А. 
plant t books, papers, and drawin le removed м own rect and on his death 
in төрү “the whole of а — eorrespondence was burnt by his b 
* Som ter John Aiton's death, Mr. dwell Smith, Mr. Aiton’ 
e was Visio to return ‘them (the drawings and plant record books з) directed to 
the care of Sir W. Hoo 
reseue of the reco 
Botany,” for 1884 къ 127), he states “after John Aiton's — on 
| _ ее inquiring after the “ they were restored to the gardens by а — 
