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the same as in the flowering specimens above described. The fruit, not 
yet fully formed, is about half an inch long, somewhat compressed, 
very woolly, either roundly obcordate and two-celled, or by the abortion 
of one cell obliquely obcordate. 
(To be continued.) 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Death of Dr. WILLIAM ARNOLD DROMFIELD. 
Seldom has it been our duty to record the death of a naturalist more 
devoted to the cause of science, and more esteemed as a man, than 
Dr. Bromfield. The mournful event took place at Damascus, on the 
9th of October of the present year, 1851. 
William Arnold Bromfield, M.D., F.R.S., &c., was born in 1801, 
at Boldre, in the New Forest, Hants; a county so beautiful in its 
scenery, that it is no wonder that one whose infant years were passed 
in such a region should be ever after alive to the charms of nature, 
He was cradled, as it were, among woods. His father was the Rev. 
John Arnold Bromfield, M.A., formerly Fellow of New College, 
Oxford, and was, on account of his health, several years ago, obliged 
to quit his living at Market Weston, in Suffolk, for the warmer 
- climate of Hampshire, where he died in the year which gave birth to his 
only son. In his childhood Dr. Bromfield was intelligent and remark- 
able for sweetness of temper, which rather increased than otherwise as —— 
years advanced, and he always took great delight in all representations 
of natural history, in mechanics, &c. One who was much his companion 
at that time, well remembers when at the age of five or six he stole _ 
away from the child's sport of the day to watch some workmen mend- 
ing a. pump: their movements were eagerly scrutinized, and he was 
ready even then, as on other similar occasions afterwards, to lose no 
opportunity of gaining information. = 
At about eleven years of age he was placed under the charge - 
of Dr. Knox, of Tonbridge, for two years, and during that period 
received much notice and kindness from the Rev. Dr. Cartwright, who = 
