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the post of botanist to the expedition. “Never were the results of an 
expedition more melancholy and disastrous.” Out of the 54 persons 
which it ROME no less than 21 died, including Capiain Tuckey and 
Professor S 
following are extracts from the instructions to Professor Smith 
given “him by the Admiralt ty :— 
“In order to enable him to execute his laborious duties, a gardener from His 
Majesty's Botanical caves at Kew has been re. to assist the Professor in 
drying and preserving as well as in co llecting specim 
** He is also directed to B res the seeds of all new weet whi ch may offer them- 
selves for the use of t oyal Garden ë Kew; and the supply of these has been 
limited to two packa ": of each kind, sewed up, with a view to keep the stock 
be delivered, so sewed up, t e Direct Royal Botanical Gardens, а 
soon as possible after the return of ак хабат eo pies (p. xxxviiii)." 
Mr. Brown worked up Christian Smith's collections. He says 
e) ES 
e Herbarium . + + was on its arrival in England, placed at the disposal 
of Sir верь Banks. ” 
In conclusion Mr. Brown says А 485) :— 
It remains aed that I should notice isa exemplary aeo s б Botanic 
oni x Day d Lockhart, the popes vor, I believe, of the party by whom . 
river a dm falls was examined, i "that ласо journey ^ which proved 
re to the expeditio" 
818 Lockhart was appointed Superintendent of the Botanic 
utens, Trinidad 
Smith ( Records, pp. 229, 230), says:— 
“Between the years 1823 and 1825, a considerable number of species [of 
orchids] were received from "Trinidad, ‘forw arded by Mr. Daniel Lockhart, the 
Superintendent of the Garden, amongst hick, were the first к of Stanhopea 
g on portions of branches as eut from the trees, w ing a nied by 
instructions from Mr. Lo pes as to how they should be trenit led d ry success- 
ful cultivation of epiphytal orchids.” 
The interesting edes я crassipes was introduced to 
Kew by Lockhart from Trini 
He died in Trinidad, 1845 
Kew, 1817-20. 
Patrick Neill, author of a “Journal of Horticultural Tour,” gives 
(р. 507) a brief notice of the state of Kew in 1817 :— 
* We then pe ue the Botanie Garden, мена E fesom Mr. Be Кы жа an the 
foreman, an old a tance. The ‘seine are not 
but scattered over thé: eoa In one of them Mr. Regie dee i оаа to a 
plant of the Cactus cochinillifer, which had been brought to Britain with the - 
oni apn tise ~~ , upon it. There was still a жоон — of ће 
insect upon ant. In another of the Mu he showed us a new species of 
passiflora, having see fruit ( Passiffora edulis). eg plant had fruit upon it at 
this time: of an oval shape, purple-coloured, about the size of a small hen egg. 
It has ieu been i sevi up with the dessert at es Royal table.’ 
Sir Richard Phillips (Morning Walk from London to M p. 379), 
deseribes in 1817 a curious sight which existed at the time 
* As I quitted the lane I beheld, on xb € the long boundary wall of Kew 
Gardens, on which a disabled sailor has drawn in chalk the effigies of the whole 
British navy, and over each represe of the vessel, and the 
number of has in this wa eted about 800 vessels, ea or 
ae foot ipte ina ык with intervening distances about a mile and a half. 
