Linnaan Society, 195 



a report ; and in the same year he communicated to the Medical 

 and Physical Society of Bombay, a paper pubhshed in December in 

 the ' Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal/ entitled " Geological 

 Notes on the Northern Conkan, and a small portion of Guzerat and 

 Kattywar." In this paper he mentions the discovery by himself in 

 the Island of Perim, in the Gulf of Cambay, of a large deposit of 

 fossil bones, which has since been more fully investigated by Capt. 

 Fulljames and Dr. Falconer, and has been found to comprise some 

 of the most remarkable among the very extraordinary fossils for the 

 knowledge of which we have recently been indebted to the natu- 

 ralists of India. 



In 1837 he returned to England overland, and in 1840 again pro- 

 ceeded to India, where he was appointed surgeon to the 14th Bom- 

 bay Native Infantry, and accompanied that regiment in 1844 to Kur- 

 rachee in Scinde, and in 1845 to Hydrabad, where he fell a victim 

 to spasmodic cholera on the 4th of July, in the 49th or 50th year of 

 his age. 



In character Dr. Lush was well-known to many of our members 

 as warm-hearted, sincere, and of so sweet a disposition, that I am 

 assured by one of our Fellows who knew him best, that during a 

 close intimacy of many years he never saw him out of temper. He 

 was a constant peacemaker, and his simplicity was extraordinary. 

 His talents were excellent, and had his application been equal, there 

 is no doubt that he would have attained a high position in science. 



Peter Nouaille, Esq. 



Of oiir Associates we have lost two during the past year. 



Mr. James Main began life as a working gardener in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Edinburgh, and was afterwards employed by Mr. George 

 Hibbert, to whom we are indebted for the introduction of many va- 

 luable plants through the means of collectors whom he sent abroad. 

 One of these was Mr. Main, whom he despatched to China, and who 

 continued in Mr. Hibbert's employ for some years after his return to 

 England, but afterwards took a farm in Scotland. Here he was 

 unsuccessful ; but having made himself well-acquainted with the re- 

 ceived theories and practice both of horticulture and of agriculture, 

 he turned his attention to the literature of those subjects, and from 

 this time forwards became a frequent and welcome contributor to 

 some of the principal periodicals devoted to their illustration. In the 

 year 1830 he published ' The Villa and Cottage Florist's Direc- 

 tory,' which reached a second edition in 1835 ; in 1833 * Illustra- 

 tions of Vegetable Physiology, practically applied ;' in 1835 * Po- 

 pular Botany;' and in 1839 'The Young Farmer's Manual,' and 

 ' The Forest Planter's and Pruner's Assistant ;' and he also edited 

 new editions of Mawe's ' Every Man his own Gardener,' and of 

 several other works of a similar character. 



Mr. Main was elected an Associate of the Linnsean Society in 

 1829, and communicated to us in 1844 a paper entitled " Remarks 

 on Vegetable Physiology," in which he reproduced the leading ideas 

 on the growth of plants contained in his ' Illustrations of Vegetable 

 Physiology.' Of this paper an abstract is published in the * Proceed- 



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