284 Mr. ANpznsox's Monograph of the Genus Pæonia. 
able to see the result of our inquiry placed in the pages of the 
Transactions of the Society, was suddenly destroyed ; and that 
which would have afforded me so much pleasure, has now becn a 
task, accompanied with the most painful recollections. | 
To those who had the happiness of being acquainted with 
Mr. George Anderson, it will not be necessary to recall the recol- 
lection of his merits and of his goodness; his loss has been most . 
severely lamented by his friends, and tlie remembrance of his 
virtues and of his excellence will remain in their hearts to the 
latest period of their lives. The science of Botany in this coun- 
try, had he not been so early lost, would probably have been con- 
siderably benefited by his labours. He had devoted much time 
and minute attention to the investigation of the genus Salix, the 
species of which he had examined with the greatest care; and 
having formed a most extensive collection of them, he had made 
such progress in their arrangement as would have enabled him, 
had he lived, ere long to have communicated to the public a very 
accurate and correct account of the whole. His inquiries were 
not, however, confined to this subject only ; his knowledge of 
English plants was accurate and extensive, and his diligence and 
perseverance in the search after rare and new native species very 
remarkable. With all the different hardy bulbous plants he was 
particularly well acquainted, and had acquired a knowledge of 
the species and varieties of the extensive genera of Crocus, Nar- 
cissus, Tulipa, Hyacinthus, and Lilium, from the examination of 
them under cultivation in his own garden, which probably no 
individual who survives him possesses. 
I have not ventured to alter or to add to any part of the pre- 
ceding paper; the examination which I was enabled to make of 
the Pæonies during the last summer, has given me no reason to 
. doubt the accuracy of any of the observations for which we were 
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