ON OPHIOCARYON PARADOXUM. ER 
subjects of investigation. Some of his published papers, 
especially those on Vegetable Impregnation, and the Progres- 
sive Development of Organs, have never been excelled, and 
rarely equalled. 
The merits of this accomplished naturalist and devoted 
labourer in the field of scientific discovery, were appreciated 
and fostered by the noble President of this Society while at 
the head of the Government of India, and it is to his Lord- 
ship's kindness that the Society are indebted for some of the 
most interesting parts of the foregoing communication. His 
loss was also recently noticed in terms of deep regret 
by the present Governor-General, Sir Henry Hardinge, in 
His Excellency’s Address at the annual distribution of 
honours and prizes at the Bengal Medical College. 
As itis understood that the whole of the valuable materials 
prepared and collected by Mr. Griffith are consigued to the 
Directors of the East India Company, the most confident 
hopes may be cherished that the expectations of the scientific 
world will not be disappointed of the full benefit which they 
are calculated, and were intended by him, to confer on bota- 
nical and zoological knowledge, and that the irreparable loss 
entailed on his widow by his early death, and the sudden 
extinction of all those hopes of fortune, honour, and reward 
which his extensive knowledge and indomitable energy were 
so well calculated to raise, will meet with such alleviation as, 
to the enlightened liberality of the Honourable Court, the 
great value of his labours, and the forlorn and ill-provided 
State of his widow and family, may be considered to merit. 
A description of OPHIOCARYON PARADOXUM, on the Snake 
— Nut Tree of Guiana; by Sir Ropert HENRY ScHom- 
BURGE, K.H., &c. &c. . 
In a paper which I communicated to the Linnzan Society, 
_ Which was read the 6th June, 1837, and since printed in ; 
. “The Annals of Natural History,” (vol. v, p. 202) Tdi- _ 
