Ixxxiv Sir William Jackson Hooker. 
important were, the continuation of the * Botanical Magazine/ 
volumes lxvii to xc, with 1,440 plates ; the c leones Plan- 
tarum/ volumes iv to x, 700 plates; the ‘Journal of 
Botany/ volumes iii and iv, with 28 plates ; the * London 
Journal of Botany/ 7 volumes, with 166 plates; the ‘Journal 
of Botany and Kew Gardens Miscellany 1 / 9 volumes, 
with 109 plates. On ferns alone there were the ‘ Species 
Filicum/ 5 volumes, with 304 plates illustrative of 526 
species; ‘ Filices Exoticae,’ 100 plates; ‘A Second Century 
of Ferns/ 100 plates 2 ; the ‘British Ferns and their Allies/ 
66 plates ; ‘ Garden Ferns/ 64 plates ; and lastly, a commence- 
ment of a ‘ Synopsis Filicum.’ To these must be added his 
Guide-books to the Royal Gardens and to their Museums, 
and his annual ‘ Reports,’ to be laid before Parliament, on 
‘ the progress and condition of the Royal Gardens.’ 
Altogether, inclusive of the ‘ leones Filicum ’ (in association 
with Dr. Greville), my father published upwards of 1,200 
plates of ferns, and descriptions of 2,500 species. 
Alphonse de Candolle, in his warm tribute to my father’s 
memory (Archives des Sciences de la Bibliotheque universelle 
de Geneve, July, 1866), gives 4,094 as the number of plates of 
plants published by my father, exclusive of those in the 
‘ Flora Londinensis ’ (about 220). This is far short of the 
total number, which I make to be nearer 8,000 ; of which 
about 1,800 were from drawings executed by himself. 
I need hardly add that but for the fidelity, artistic skill, and 
extraordinary rapidity of execution of Walter Fitch, who 
was my father’s botanical limner for thirty years, this number 
could not have been approached. 
With the commencement of a ‘ Synopsis Filicum/ which 
the completed ‘ Species Filicum ’ made a comparatively easy 
task, my father’s labours terminated. His end was unex- 
1 This work was brought to a conclusion in 1857 with an almost pathetic 
farewell to the botanical helpers in his series of Journals, and to his botanical 
friends. 
2 The first Century of Ferns consisted of are-issue of the plates and descriptions 
of the tenth volume of the leones Plantarum (which volume was confined to ferns), 
on a larger sized paper, and coloured. 
