74 J. H. MAIDEN, 
Holland Gerboa rat’’ (Hapalotis albipes, Licht.) sold by 
him to the British Museum. See an appreciation of Fer- 
dinand Bauer from Lhotsky’s pen in Hooker’s Lond. Journ. 
Bot. ii, 106 (1843). He was for a time in the service of the 
Tasmanian Government (? as Medical Officer). The date 
of his death is unknown. He is commemorated in the 
Myrtaceous genus Lhotzkya, Schauer, and in Leptorrhyn- 
chus Lhotzkyanus, Walp.=—L. squinatus, Less. 
Lindley, John (1799-1865). Ph. D., F.R.S., F.L:S: 
Botanist and Lorticulturist. Born at Catton, near Norwich, 
where his father was a nurseryman, and educated at 
Norwich Grammar School. Assistant Librarian to Sir J. 
Banks, when he published Rosarum Monographia, 1820, 
Collectanea Botanica and Digitalium Monographia in 1821, 
assistant secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
1822, first professor of botany at the University of London, 
1829, and lecturer on botany to the Apothecaries’ Company 
1836. It was on his recommendation that Kew Gardens 
were acquired for the nation. He published many works. 
Member of the Institute of France. Died at Turnham 
Green, London (8). See also (1). There is a reproduction 
of the portrait of Lindley by Eddis, in the Royal Horticul- 
tural Society’s room at fig. 44, Journ. R. H. S.. xxix (Dec. 
1904), also of the Lindley medal. 
‘Dr. Lindley’s able sketch of the vegetation of the Swan River 
Colony, published in 1839, as an appendix to the “Botanical 
Register,” is founded chiefly on Drummond’s collections ; and it 
contains a good account of many of the features of the climate of 
the Colony, many extremely valuable botanical notes on the plants, 
and figures of eighteen. Dr. Lindley records his obligations to 
Captain Mangles, R.N., and R. Mangles, Esq., and notices a paper 
on Western Australia by Dr. Milligan, published in the ‘Madras 
Journal” for 1837.” (8). 
Lindley also named the specimens collected on Mitchell’s 
Third Expedition. He was for many years deeply inter- 
