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of the Gamboge- tree of Ceylon." His favourite tribe was the Legu- 

 minosiE, and he had undertaken to describe the plants of that exten- 

 sive family contained in Dr. Wallich's Indian herbarium, but subse- 

 quently relinquished the intention and transferred the plants to Mr. 

 Bentham, who has made considerable progress in their illustration. 



The genus Grahamia jointly commemorates the botanical merits 

 of Mrs. Graham, afterwards Lady Callcott, and those of Dr. Graham ; 

 and several species have also been named in honour of the latter. He 

 died on the 7th of August last at the house of his brother at Coldoch 

 in Perthshire, after a long and painful illness, leaving behind him 

 the character of an able and enthusiastic teacher, a warm and zealous 

 friend, and a candid and honourable man. 



In Joseph Janson, Esq., the Society has lost a very active and 

 zealous member. He was born at Tottenham in Middlesex on the 

 12th of July 1789, and became a Fellow of the Linnsean Society in 

 November 1831. Before his election into the Society, he contributed 

 towards the purchase of the Linnsean collections, and it was owing 

 in a great degi'ee to his exertions that the subscription was set on 

 foot which has enabled us to pay off so large a portion of our debt. 

 The Society has since been indebted to Mr. Janson for a valuable 

 set of cabinets for its herbarium, and for the cabinet which contains 

 the principal part of the collection of fruits which have been so care- 

 fully arranged by Mr. Kippist. To the library also he has presented 

 upwards of forty volumes of local European floras ; and he was always 

 ready to add to our collections, or to aid in giving interest to our 

 meetings by the exhibition of rare and curious specimens from his 

 garden at Stoke Newington, where, in addition to the more usual 

 garden plants, he was particularly successful in the cultivation of the 

 rarer and less determinately settled British species. 



Mr. Janson was, as many now present can well bear testimony, 

 a man of cultivated understanding, of a clear head and a warm heart. 

 He was ever ready to perceive and to acknowledge merit, and it was 

 one of his benevolent pleasures to bring forward young men of talent 

 and to put them in a way of making their abilities available. He was 

 a zealous friend of various establishments for the education of the 

 poor, to the promotion of the objects of which he devoted much time 

 and labour as well as rendering pecuniary assistance. He was never 

 married. He died on the 30th of April in the present year after a 

 long illness, which did not assume a dangerous appearance until 

 about a fortnight before his death. By his will he has bequeathed 

 to the Society a legacy of 100/. 



Henry Gaily Knight, Esq., M.P., distinguished for his extensive 

 acquaintance with the architecture of the middle ages, on which he 

 published several highly beautiful and important works. He was 

 educated at Eton and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 where he formed an acquaintance with Byron, which he renewed 

 during a tour in the East in 1810-11, and which probably led to 

 his attempting poetry in a series of new * Persian Tales.' These, 

 however, met with little success, and he devoted himself during the 

 latter years of his life to the more congenial study of mediaeval 



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