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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



intention had to be abandoned owing to the publisher's refusal to con- 

 tinue that work. After much subsequent correspondence with Humboldt, 

 that led to nothing, my father commenced the publication on his own 

 account and produced in 1816 the first part of a work entitled ' Plantae 

 Cryptogamicae, quae in plaga orbis novi Aequinoctialis colligerunt Alex, 

 von Humboldt et Aimat Bonpland.' It is a very thin quarto, with four 

 plates of species drawn by the author and exquisitely etched by Edwards. 

 The expense was great and the return nil ; the work was therefore aban- 

 doned, and of the remaining Musci and Hepaticae many were included in 

 the author's less expensive ' Alusci Exotici.' 



" On June 12, 1815, my father married Maria Sarah, eldest daughter 

 of Dawson Turner, and immediately started on a long wedding tour to 

 the Lake District and to Ireland, w T hich latter country the pair traversed 

 in almost every direction, making sketches of scenery and ancient build- 

 ings ; thence they went to Scotland on a visit to Mr. Lyell at Kinnordy 

 in Forfarshire, with whom a close intimacy and correspondence on 

 Hepaticae had long existed. Returning they passed through Manchester 

 for the purpose of seeing Mr. Hobson, a packer in a warehouse, who with 

 only the works of ^Yithering, Hudson, and the 1 Muscologia Hibernica,' 

 had acquired a critical knowledge of British Mosses that surprised his 

 visitor, who says of him : ' I never saw a man possessed of more enthu- 

 siasm than this poor fellow.' 



" As alluded to by M. De Candolle [in a letter here omitted], Lindley, 

 then a youth of eighteen, was at the same time as himself a guest of my 

 father. He was the son of a well-known nurseryman of Catton, near 

 Norwich, and had shown such zeal and ability as a local botanist that 

 with a view of encouraging him in its pursuit he was invited to Hales- 

 worth, and to occupy himself there with translating Richard's ' Analyse 

 des Fruits.' This he did, introducing the author's latest corrections, and 

 illustrating his translation with plates and original observations. In the 

 following year my father took Lindley to Sir Joseph Banks, who offered 

 him temporary employment in his herbarium, and introduced him to 

 Mr. Cattley, a wealthy merchant devoted to horticulture, who was 

 desirous of having his rare plants handsomely illustrated ; and this again 

 led eventually to the assistant secretaryship of the Horticultural Society 

 of London, which Lindley occupied till 1858. . . . 



" The 1 British Jungermanniae,' the most beautiful of all my father's 

 works, in point of the drawing, analyses, and engraving of the plates, 

 was concluded in 1816. It had occupied him for about ten years, and 

 was the first work of any magnitude which he projected. It appeared 

 in parts, in both a quarto and a folio form, with eighty-eight plates 

 engraved by Edwards, illustrating 197 species. . . . 



" 1817 is one of the very few years of his life in which he published 

 scarcely anything. The exception was an account of the very remark- 

 able European moss named after his friend, Tayloria splachnoidcs, in 

 'Brand's Journal of Science and Art,' No. Ill, p. 144, and 1 Musci 

 Exotici,' tab. 178. Of a visit to London in August of this year he 

 writes: 'I met at Spring Grove (Sir Joseph Banks's) Abel, Brown, 

 Leach, and a Mr. Manning of Diss, who passed many years among the 

 Chinese endeavouring to get access to the interior, though he failed ; 



