xlii Sir William Jackson Hooker . 
In the interval between the publication of the ‘ Companion to 
the Botanical Magazine’ and the resumption of the ‘Journal/ 
he undertook the editorship with Sir William Jardine and others 
of Taylor’s ‘ Annals of Natural History/ which for three 
years (1837-40) 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 
embarrassing, that editorship was abandoned. After leaving 
Glasgow for Kew he resumed the ‘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 Kew Garden Miscellany/ nine volumes (1849-57). 
Regarding the conduct of this series of journals under their 
different titles, it is impossible to overrate the value of the 
assistance and encouragement which he received throughout 
in contributions from fellow botanists at home and abroad ; 
especially Arnott, Bentham, Berkeley, Harvey, W. Wilson, 
Hewett Watson, and Asa Gray : and this though, owing to 
the limited circulation of the volumes, the publishers (of 
whom there were consecutively seven) gave the contri- 
butors neither the work nor copies of their papers, except 
on payment. The editor contented himself with one copy, 
and gave his services, and in many cases the drawings on 
stone, gratuitously. 
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. Amongst 
their most interesting contents are the letters from correspon- 
dents abroad — Jameson and Hall from Ecuador, Douglas 
from North-West America, T. Drummond from Canada and 
the United States, Spruce from the Amazon, Peru, and the 
Pyrenees, Purdie from Jamaica and New Grenada, Bromfield 
from the United States, Geyer from Oregon and the Rocky 
Mountains, Seemann from Panama and the North Pacific, 
Gardner from Brazil, Walker from Ceylon, Stocks from Sind 
and Beluchistan, A. Cunningham from New South Wales, 
