LINDLEY, JOHN, a distinguished botanist, was b. Feb. 1799, at Catton, near Norwich, where his father, who was the author of A Guide to brcluird and Kitchen Gardens, owned a large nursery garden. Botany seems to have early attracted his attention, as, in 1819, he published a translation of Richard's Analyse du Fruit, and in 1820 his Nonographia 1?osarum appeared. Amongst his most important works are his Introduc tion to the Natural System of Botany (1830); Introduction to the Structure and Physiology of Plants (2 vols. 1832); Flora .31edica (1838); and The Vegetable Kingdom (1846), which is a standard work on the subject of classification, and is an expansion'of his introduc tion to the Natural Systeni, which had previously (in 1836) been remodeled under the title of A Natural System of Botany. Lindley did a great deal to popularize the study of botany by the publication of his. Ladies' Botany, School Botany, " botauy" in the Library of Useful Knowledge, and the botanical articles as far as the letter R in the Penny Cyclopadia. In his Theory of Hortkulture, which has passed through several editions, and in the well-known periodical, The Gardener's Chronkle (tlae horticultural department of which he edited from its commencement in 1841), he showed the great practical value of a knowledge of vegetable physiology in the common operations of the field and garden. In conjunction with Mr. Hutton lie published The Fossil Flora of
Great Britain, which consists of descriptions and figures of all the fossil plants found in this country up to the time of the commencement of this publication in 1833. Our limited space prevents us from noticing his other works, or his numerous contributions to scientific transactions. In 1829, at the opening of the London university, he was appointed professor of botany, and he continued to discharge the duties of the chair till 1860, when he resigned. From 1822 he acted as assistant secretary to the horticultural society, and not only edited their Transactions and Proceedings, but took an active part in the management of their gardens at Turnham Green. He was a fellow of numerous learned societies at home and abroad. He died Nov., 1865.