xciv Appendix A . 
1825. Description of two West African plants in Gray and 
Douchard’s 6 Travels in West Africa.* Four species, with 
four plates. 
On the Botany of America. Brewster’s Edinburgh Journal 
of Science, vol. ii, p. 108. 
Catalogue of Plants contained in the Boyal Botanic 
Gardens of Glasgow, 8vo. About 7,000 species. 
Plants collected by Capt. (afterwards Sir Edward) 
Sabine, B,.A., during the voyage in 1823 of H.M.S. Griper 
to Greenland, Melville Island, Spitzbergen, and the North Cape. 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv, 360. Ninety species, with one plate 4to. 
Appendix to Capt. (afterwards Sir Edward) Parry’s 
6 Second Voyage in search of a North-West Passage,’ 4 to. 
173 species from the Polar Islands, with two plates 4to. 
1826. Appendix to Capt. (afterwards Sir Edward) Parry’s 
fi Third Voyage in search of a North-West Pasaage,’ 4to. 
Eighty-four species from the American Polar Islands, 4to. 
1827. The Botanical Magazine. The transition from the author- 
ship of the ‘ Exotic Flora ’ to that of Curtis’s ‘ Botanical Magazine ’ 
was direct. The latter publication, which had since its first 
appearance in 1787 been the leading illustrated botanical serial 
in Europe, with a sale of 3,200 copies in its early years, was in 
1826 at a low ebb scientifically and financially, and was 
threatened with extinction. It had in England alone no fewer 
than ten illustrated competitors of various merit. At this critical 
period of its history my father was offered the editorship \ and 
being assured of a supply of materials from the Gardens of Kew, 
Edinburgh, Liverpool, Glasgow, and some private collections, 
he accepted the offer, discontinued the ‘ Exotic Flora,’ and threw 
all his energies into this new venture. For the first ten years he 
was for the most part his own artist, during which time he had 
1 From 1827 till 1845 the title-page of the successive volumes proclaimed the 
work as ‘ conducted by Samuel Curtis, the descriptions by W. J. Hooker.’ The 
fact was that the latter provided not only the plates, but the subjects for them, and 
was responsible for their execution and colouring. He was wholly author and 
editor of the work ; of which the ‘ conductor ’ was the publisher and proprietor, 
nothing more. 
