312 BOTANICAL OBITUAKY. 



il n'est pas possible d'appeler de ce aom une maladie dans laquelle il 

 n'y a eu ni crampes, ni periode cyanique, ni refroidissement general, ni 

 alteration des traits. Je croirais plutot a une goutte remontee et 

 corapliquee de fievre typlioide, le tout aggravepar Tinfiuence cholerique 

 agissant snr nn corps afFaibli par un regime debilitant de plusieurs se- 



raaines/' 



A postscript again, to this letter, gives " les terines techniques dans 

 lesquels on pent parler de la maladie qui Ta emporte/' — "A la suite 

 d'une attaque de goutte qui a dure deux mois, M- Webb a ete atteint 

 d'une gastro-enterite, accompagnee de quelques symptomes choleriques 

 et typhoides, a laquelle il a succombe le 31 Aout, 1854." 



Mr. Webb, though of late years his principal residence was in an 

 excellent mansion in the Avenue Marbceuf, Paris, where, like Humboldt, 

 he found facilities for carrying on expensive scientific publications, not 

 to be enjoyed elsewhere, was a native of England, and bom on his 

 paternal estate, Milford House*, Surrey. His father was the grandson 

 of Philip Carteret Webbf , of Busbridge, Esq., one of the most distin- 



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guished antiquaries and lawyers of the day ; and in the same way as 

 the descendant has adorned the grounds at Milford House with nume- 

 rous rare exotic trees, so did his ancestor beautify and improve Bus- 

 bridge with oaks, and that to such an extent, that a silver medal from 

 the Society of Arts was awarded to him, for having planted so great a 

 quantity of acorns for timber. What Mr. Philip Carteret Webb was 

 as an antiquary and lawyer, his great-grandson became as a classical 

 scholar and Botanist. He was born in July 1793, and first went to Dr. 

 Moore's celebrated school, thence to Harrow, and afterwards to Christ 

 Church, Oxford, where he took a first-class in 1815, 



Thus possessed of excellent talents, born to a good estate, and full of 



* Now the property of his next brother. Colonel Webb, long Aide-de-camp to 

 Lord Combermere, 



t This gentleman, who was bom in 1700, and died at Busbridge in 1770, is 

 stated to have been eminently learned in the Records of this Kingdom, and particu- 

 larly able as a parliamentary and constitutional Lawyer. He was twice returned 

 Member of Parliament for the borough of Haslemere, and was a principal actor m 

 the prosecution of Mr. AYilkes for his writings in the * North Briton/ At his decease 

 his library, and collections, principally oT coins and medals, were sold ; the sale of 

 them occupying many days. The House of Peers purchased thirty MS. volumes of 

 the Rolls of Parliament ; and the British Museum is now in possession of his MS. 

 on paper, which had been purchased by the Marquis of Lansdowne. His publica- 

 tions were numerous. See Nichols's ' Literary Anecdotes/ and the * Biographical 

 Dictionary,' for further particulars of this learned man. 



