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ander, he succeeded to the office of Librarian to Sir Joseph Banks, 

 who (on his death in 1820) bequeathed to him for life the use and 

 enjoyment of his library and collections. These were subse- 

 quently, in 1827, with Mr. Brown's assent, and in conformity with 

 the provisions of Sir Joseph's will, transferred to the British Mu- 

 seum ; and from this latter date to his death, a period of upwards 

 of thirty years, he continued to fill the office of Keeper of the 

 Botanical Collections in the National Establishment. Soon after 

 the death of Sir Joseph Banks he had resigned the Librarianship 

 of the Linnean Society, of which he then became a Fellow ; and 

 having been for many years one of its Vice-Presidents, was at last 

 prevailed upon, in 1849, to allow himself to be elected President. 

 This office he retained till 1853. He became a Pellow of the 

 Boyal Society in 1811, and was several times elected into the 

 Council. In 1839 he received its highest honour in the Copley 

 Medal, presented to him " for his discoveries during a series of 

 years on the subject of vegetable impregnation." In the mean- 

 time honours and titles had flowed in upon him from all quarters ; 

 and nearly every scientific Society both at home and abroad felt 

 itself honoured by enrolling his name in the list of its Members. 

 In 1832, the University of Oxford conferred upon him, in con- 

 junction with Dalton, Faraday, and Brewster, the honorary degree 

 of D.C.L. In the succeeding year he was elected one of the 

 eight Foreign Associates of the Academy of Sciences of the Insti- 

 tute of France, his name being selected from a list including those 

 of nine other savans of world-wide reputation, nearly every one of 

 whom has since been elected to the same distinguished honour. 

 During the administration of Sir Eobert Peel, he received, in re- 

 cognition of his great eminence in botanical science, a pension on 

 the Civil List of £200 per annum. The King of Prussia subse- 

 quently decorated him with the cross of the highest Prussian 

 Civil Order, " Pour le Merite." 



Among the more important of his Memoirs above referred to, 

 may be mentioned his Papers on Composites, on Bqfflesia, and on 

 the Fecundation of Orcliidece and Ascle/piadecB, in the Linnean 

 Transactions ; the botanical appendices to the Yoyages or Travels 

 of Tuckey, Parry, Franklin, Abel, King, and Denham ; his Papers 

 on Active Molecules, and on the plurality of Embryos in Conifer ce, 

 and his contributions to Wallich's ' Plantae Asiaticae,' and to Hors- 

 field's ' Plantae Javanicse.' Of his later publications, the most 

 remarkable are his "Botanical Appendix to Captain Sturt's Expe- 

 dition into Central Australia," published in 1849; and his Me- 



