John Sims

“ A Second volume of the Botanical Magazine having
been brought to a conclusion since the death of Mr.
Curtis, it seems proper that the very liberal encouragement
this work has continued to receive should be gratefully ac-
knowledged, the demand for it being by no means diminished,
notwithstanding the irreparable loss sustained by that melancholy
event, and the increased price, which the pressure of the times
has made necessary.
To a few readers it may not be totally uninteresting to learn
how the Botanical Magazine came under the present direction. ”

“ Work as in Mr. Curtis's time. This will, it is hoped, insure
the same excellence of execution, which is such that the figures
in the Botanical Magazine, for elegance as well as correct-
ness, will in general suffer nothing by a comparison with the
most expensensive botanical works, a fact loudly attested by the
circumstance that a large proportion of the ornaments of our
most expensive porcelain and cabinet ware is copied from them.
The Botanical Magazine will continue to be carried on as much
as possible on the same plan as by Mr, Curtis himself. ”

“ Botanist, an indulgence he feels to be more than ordinarily neces-
sary; for being engaged in a laborious and important profession,
and having ever made Botany his amusement, never a serious
study, he has greater dependance upon the continued assist-
ance of his more learned friends than upon the exertion of his
own abilities. ”