An excellent botanical album compiled by Andrew Bloxam naturalist on the Blonde. In the autumn of 1824 Bloxam accepted the position of naturalist aboard the frigate Blonde, George Anson Byron, commander, his eldest brother was the chaplain. The vessel conveyed the bodies of the King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands who had died in England, to their native land, the voyage lasting eighteen months. A large collection of natural history specimens were made, and these were deposited in the British Museum upon his return in 1826. Bloxam took holy orders a few months later, and settled in Leicestershire at Twycross, afterwards removing to Harborough Magna, where he died February 2, 1878. His labours were not confined to any one department; he wrote on conchology, ornithology, flowerless and flowering plants, and he possessed a critical knowledge of British ‘Rubi’ and ‘Rosae,’ of which he published dried sets. In conjunction with Mr. Churchill Babington he wrote an account of the botany of Charnwood Forest for Potter’s history of that district. He may be regarded as perhaps the last of the all round British naturalists.

^{Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 2, p. 726}