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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



model he took Konig and Sims's ' Annals of Botany,' of which two 

 volumes only had been published (London, 1805-6). He never stopped or 

 stooped to calculate the time, worry, and cost that this undertaking would 

 entail upon him, which occupied him for the next thirty years of his life ; 

 for he had throughout no assistant editor, and was dependent solely on my 

 mother, and at intervals on myself when at home, for aid in proof-read- 

 ing, &c. The heavy correspondence it entailed was conducted by himself 

 alone. Including the continuation of the series issued from Kew, these 

 periodicals embrace twenty-eight volumes with 548 plates, of which seven 

 volumes with 247 plates, the greater number of them drawn by himself, 

 were issued from Glasgow. These were the ' Botanical Miscellany,' three 

 volumes with 152 plates (1830-3), the ' Journal of Botany,' two volumes 

 with 44 plates (1834 and 1840), and the ' Companion to the Botanical 

 Magazine,' two volumes with 51 plates (1835-6). In the interval 

 between the publication of the ' Companion to the Botanical Magazine ' 

 and the resumption of the 1 Journal ' he undertook the editorship, with 

 Sir William Jardine and others, of Taylor's ' Annals of Natural History,' 

 which for three years (1837-1840) was the recipient of much of his 

 botanical matter ; but the latter became too copious to be included in 

 the numbers of the ' Annals,' and, the result proving otherwise embarrass- 

 ing, that editorship was abandoned. After leaving Glasgow for Kew 

 he resumed the 1 Journal,' three volumes (1840-2) of which were followed 

 by the ' London Journal of Botany,' seven volumes (1842-7), and that by 

 the ' Journal of Botany ' and 1 Kew Garden Miscellany,' nine volumes 

 (1849-57). 



" As a contribution to the history of botany during three decades of the 

 nineteenth century these periodicals were unique ; no period or subsequent 

 decade of that century can show so rich a store of valuable botanical 

 material. 



" Towards the end of his Glasgow life my father resumed a systematic 

 study of Ferns, which he had begun with Greville soon after his arrival 

 there, the first result of which was the commencement of an 1 Enumera- 

 tion of all known Ferns' published in the 'Botanical Miscellany.' The 

 issue in parts of Hooker and Bauer's ' Genera of Ferns ' was begun in 

 1838 ; it originated in his having been shown the beautiful analyses of 

 many genera of the order by the veteran botanical artist, Francis Bauer, 

 who offered the loan of these for publication to my father ; not that the 

 order had in the meantime been neglected by him, as is proved by the 

 numerous genera and species described and figured in his journals, in 

 the ' Icones Plantarum ' and other works, and by his publication of 

 J. Smith's 'Genera of Ferns.' As I propose to give in an appendix to 

 this sketch of his life a complete account of my father's works, I shall 

 not dwell here on those devoted to Ferns." 



