xliv PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



And in conjunction with Mr. James Sowerby, 



Catalogue of some of tlie more rare plants observed in a tour 

 through the Western Counties of England, made in June 

 1799.— Vol. V. p. 234. 



The following Notices relate to the eminently distinguished men 

 whose places have become vacant in the list of our Foreign 

 Members : — 



Carl Adolph Agardh, Bishop of Carlstad and Knight of the 

 Polar Star, distinguished as a botanist, a statesman, and a theolo- 

 gian, was the son of a shopkeeper in the town of Bartad, in the 

 Swedish province of Halland, where he was born on the 23rd of 

 January, 1785. He became, in 1799, a student of the University 

 of Lund, and published his inaugural dissertation, entitled " Cari- 

 cographia Scanensis," in 1806. In the following year, at the age 

 of two-and-twenty, he was appointed Professor of Mathematics ; 

 but his scientific studies continuing to take the direction indicated 

 by his earliest work, he proceeded to Stockholm, where, under the 

 superintendence of Swartz, he devoted himself to the study of 

 Cryptogamic plants. After making a tour through Denmark, 

 Northern Grermany, and Poland, he returned to Lund, and in 1812 

 became Professor of Botany and Practical Economy in that Uni- 

 versity. In 1816 he took holy orders, and was immediately named 

 pastor of St. Peter's Kloster ; and in the diets of 1817, 1823, and 

 1834, he sat as deputy for his diocese. In 1821, he undertook a 

 scientific journey through Denmark, Germany, Holland, and 

 France ; and in 1827 he travelled through part of Germany and 

 Italy. During all this period he was actively engaged in the pub- 

 lication of his botanical labours, especially in reference to the 

 family oiAlgce, a group of plants which, by his persevering and suc- 

 cessful investigation, he made peculiarly his own, and the syste- 

 matic arrangement of which he entirely remodelled. He was 

 chosen a Member of the Eoyal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm 

 in 1818 ; in 3 824 he was decorated with the Order of the Polar 

 Star ; and in 1825 he was called to Stockholm as a member of the 

 great Committee then formed for the organization of a new system 

 of public instruction. In 1833, he paid a visit to England, and in 

 the same year he was elected a Foreign Member of the Linnean 

 Society. On his elevation to the bishopric of Carlstad in the fol- 

 lowing year, he resigned his Professorship in the University ; and 

 from this time forward he almost ceased his botanical labours, 

 devoting himself chiefly to his public and religious duties. His 



