THE BAXKSIAN BOTANIST-LIBRARIANS. 
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White’s Voy. ; Vahl Enuni., Linn. Sor. Trans.-, Cavanilles in Anales 
de Hist. nat. ; Bot. Ma'f.-, Salisb. Prodr.; Willd. sp. pi.; L’Herit. Sert. 
Angl. ;. Schrader Sert. Hannov. ; •• Hortus Kewensis.” 
9. Botanical description of the Benjamin Tree of Sumatra. Phil. 
Trans, vol. xvi. (Ixxvii), 1809, pp. 287-288. 
He edited Roxburgh’s “ Plants of the Coromandel Coast.” 
His mar/num opus is No. 6, the elaborate catalogue of Sir Joseph 
Banks’s library. 
He also published in the Transactions of the Royal Academy of 
Sciences at Stockhobn.* 
By the extensive assistance he gave in compiling Aiton’s ’‘Hortus 
Kewensis,” he may almost be considered as the author of that work 
as far as the fir.st portion of the second edition is concerned. Indeed 
some botanists go so far as to say that the authority for the new 
species enumerated in that work should be given as “ lirvander,” and 
not as “ Aiton,” who was merely a gardener, but with little botanical 
knowledge. Solander and Brown also enriched various editions. The 
younger Aiton published the following note in the second edition of 
that work : — 
To the memory of his deceased friend .lonas Dryander, Esq., a melancholy 
tribute of acknowledgment must be paid, for having continued to the son the 
assistance given to his father during the publication of the former edition of this 
work. This inestimable man e.xerted his best talents not only in improving the 
plan, but in arranging the materials of this catalogue for the press, and correcting 
the proof sheets during the progress of the printing, until a few days previous 
to his death; endeavouring at the same time to instil into the mind of the author 
some portion of that extensive scientific information for which he was so univer- 
sally esteemed. t 
In Alton’s work the only plant “ .lonas Dryander, M.A.” is credited 
with having brought into cultivation at Kew is Lepidium piscidium 
from the Society Islands. 
His name is commemorated in the Proteaceous genus Dryandra from 
Western Australia, and (irevillea Dryandra, R. Br. 
Dryandra of Thunberg, first published in Flora Japonica, being not generically 
different from .Aleurites, which was previously established by Forster, I have 
peculiar satisfaction in giving the name of my resjiected friend, .Mr. Dryander, 
to a genus so nearly related to Banksia. from which indeetl it differs chiefly in 
inflorescence, but in that respect so widely as to be at once distinguishable.^ 
Dryander leaves behind him the reputation of being the best biblio- 
grapher of his time, and a sound botanist. He also seems to have 
been a man much respected and beloved. Brown’s opinion of the 
■ The Librarian of the Royal I'niversity Liorary at Upsala, writes to me — " The onlv paper 
I know from Dryander is the following : 
" .\nmarkningar vid drtslagtet Albuca, med beskrifningar pa tre nya slag deraf. 
" (Kongl. Vetenshapsakademicus Handlingar, Ary. 17S4, p. 289. Stockn.) ” 
t • Hortm rvewensi-'. " Vol. v (postscript). 
t R. Brown’s Coll. Works (Ray Soc., ii, p. 179.) 
