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1793-1800
THE series of volumes known as " English Botany " was begun in 1790 by James Sowerby, the botanic artist, who engaged Dr. James Edward Smith, the possessor of the Linnean collections and founder of the Linnean Society, to describe the plants depicted by him. At first the name of the draughtsman only appeared on the title-page, but in 1795 a preface to the fourth volume by Smith acknowledged his authorship, and he was much annoyed in after years by " the flippancy with which everybody quotes "Sowerby," whom they know merely as the delineator of these plates, without adverting to the information of the work, or the name of the author." The artist and those who followed him preserved the original drawings of the phanerogams and vascular cryptogams, which ultimately came into the possession of the trustees of the British Museum, and are now in the department of botany.
From nature 72, 556-556 (05 October 1905)
