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J. H. MAIDEN.

Holland Gerboa rat" (Hapalotis albipes, Licht.) sold by him to the British Museum. See an appreciation of Ferdinand Bauer from Lhotsky's pen in Hooker's Lond. Journ. Bot. ii, 106 (1843). He was for a time in the service of the Tasmanian Government (? as Medical Officer). The date of his death is unknown. He is commemorated in the Myrtaceous genus Lhotzkya, Schauer, and in Leptorrhynchus Lhotzkyanus, Walp. = L. squmatus, Less.


Lindley, John (1799-1865). Ph.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. Botanist and horticulturist. Born at Catton, near Norwich, where his father was a nurseryman, and educated at Norwich Grammar School. Assistant Librarian to Sir J. Banks, when he published Rosarum Monographia, 1820, Collectanea Botanica and Digitalium Monographia in 1821, assistant secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1822, first professor of botany at the University of London, 1829, and lecturer on botany to the Apothecaries' Company 1836. It was on his recommendation that Kew Gardens were acquired for the nation. He published many works. Member of the Institute of France. Died at Turnham Green, London (8). See also (1). There is a reproduction of the portrait of Lindley by Eddis, in the Royal Horticultural Society's room at fig. 44, Journ. R. H. S.. xxix (Dec. 1904), also of the Lindley medal.

"Dr. Lindley's able sketch of the vegetation of the Swan River Colony, published in 1839, as an appendix to the "Botanical Register," is founded chiefly on Drummond's collections; and it contains a good account of many of the features of the climate of the Colony, many extremely valuable botanical notes on the plants, and figures of eighteen. Dr. Lindley records his obligations to Captain Mangles, R.N., and R. Mangles, Esq., and notices a paper on Western Australia by Dr. Milligan, published in the "Madras Journal" for 1837." (3).

Lindley also named the specimens collected on Mitchell's Third Expedition. He was for many years deeply inter-