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turer on Botany and Natural History there; but, on the breaking 
up of that establishment, he never after engaged in any public 
employment, and his circumstances did not require that he should 
devote much time to medical practice, a profession for which he 
was destined. He thus was enabled to make the study of botany 
the main business of his life, and few men devoted themselves to it 
with greater ardour. Besides his valuable contributions to the 
Muscologia Britannica, he wrote an admirable Memoir on the 
Marchantia, illustrated with many figures, which appeared in the 
seventeenth volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society ; 
he contributed largely to the Cryptogamic portion of Dr. Hooker's 
Flora Antarctica; and the late volumes of the present Journal 
bear testimony to his deep knowledge of the Lichens and Hepa- 
tice: nor is our portfolio without materials for our future num- 
bers, which we lament will thus constitute posthumous memoirs. 
Dr. Taylor possessed a mind well stored in various branches of 
science and literature, while his gentle and amiable manner ren- 
dered him a great favourite with all who had the happiness 
of his acquaintance; and we well know that during the dis- 
tressful times of the south of Ireland, in the winter of last year, 
his medical knowledge, and his purse, too, were alike employed in 
bettering the condition of his poor neighbours. 
Dr. Taylor’s Herbarium, eminently rich in Cryptogamiæ, his 
Library, and his Microscopes, will be, bye-and-bye, offered for 
public sale, or disposed of by private contract. 
Dr. Harvey’s appointment to the Chair of Botany in the Dublin 
Institution. . 
While we have to lament, on the one hand, the severe loss Ireland 
has sustained by the death of Dr. Taylor, we have to rejoice on 
the other, at the appointment of another of her favoured sons, 
Dr. Harvey, to the Botanical Chair at the Royal Dublin Insti- 
tution. Happily, he is still allowed to retain his position of Con- 
servator of the Herbarium in Trinity College ; and thus, that Her- 
