ABSTRACT
[“J. A.,” whose notes on Captain Richard Siddons’ experiences in Fiji were printed in the Gentleman’s Magazine 1 , was Dr Joseph Arnold, whose name just survives in that of perhaps the most remarkable of parasitic plants, Rafflesia Arnoldi, which was discovered by him when with Sir Stamford Raffles in the Malay peninsula. Arnold died at Padang on 26th July, 1818; so that the publication in the Gentleman’s Magazine was posthumous.
