THE LATE MR. GRIFFITH. 373 
house, and all having been previously cleaned and packed, 
I leave to you to present to Government, for the Honourable 
Court of Directors, to be sent home without any delay. As 
you know the trouble I have taken with these collections, and 
the hopes I had entertained of making them subservient to a 
general scientific Flora of India, I need not impress on you 
. how much I am interested in their proper disposal, and their 
being brought properly before the scientific public; and I 
would say the same regarding my drawings and manuscripts, 
_ Which will accompany my wife to Calcutta, should it so 
— happen that I leave her. 
_ “Tn all the plans which I have consigned to your execu- 
. tion, both regarding my wife and collections, I am confident 
. your own feelings will prompt you to every exertion on my 
account. Asking God's blessing on you and your wife, I 
bid you good bye.” SRS od 
. . “Thus far," continues Dr. Moorhead, his medical attend- 
ant, “ was written at Mr. Griffith's dictation; but I grieve to 
. Say the fatal result came to pass yesterday evening, Sunday, 
. 9th February, at half past seven o'clock." 
— Memoranda on the above by Dr. M*'Clelland.—* To the 
- &bove details, furnished by Dr. Moorhead, I may add that 
Mr. Griffith’s constitution for the last two or three years 
Seemed greatly shattered, his energies alone remaining un- 
_ changed. Exposure during his former journeys and travels 
_ laid the seeds of a fatal malady in his constitution, while 
his anxiety about his pursuits and his zeal increased; he 
: € caré-worn and haggard in his looks, often com- 
 Plaüning of anomalous symptoms marked by an extreme 
: rapidity of pulse, in consequence of which he had left off 
Wine for some years, and was obliged to observe great 
Care and attention in his diet. In Afghanistan he was very 
Rearly carried off by fever, to which he had been subject on 
"us former travels in Assam. No government ever hada 
_ More devoted or zealous servant, and I impute much of the 
Evil consequences to his health, to his attempting more than 
