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The Granite, in Yorkshire^ mentioned by your correspondent, L. E. O. 

 (Vol. I. p. 596. j, is certainly only in the form of large boulders, which are 

 very numerous in the county of Durham and north of Yorkshire, having 

 been carried by a strong current from the north-west. In the street at 

 Darlington is a very large one, which the large flesh-coloured crystals of 

 felspar it contains show to have travelled from the neighbourhood of Shap, 

 in Westmoreland, where the same variety of granite appears in the mass. 

 Many specimens of the same may be traced to the mouth of the Tees. For 

 a valuable dissertation on the subject of gravel and boulders, I would refer 

 your correspondent to Professor Buckland's Reliquia; Diluviance, — W. C. T. 

 Jan. 1829. 



Art. X. Obitua 



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Charles Peter Tlmnherg, M.D., Knight, F.R.S. L.S. &c.,'^the successor 

 of the younger Linnaeus as Professor of Botany at Upsal, died on the 8th 

 of August last, in the 85th year of his age ; after having filled the botanical 

 chair, during half a century, with indefatigable zeal. He had travelled over 

 a great part of the world, for the purpose of extending his knowledge, and 

 exploring nature. 



Died, Nov. 24., aged 74 years, Mr. John Ashhy, one ^f the Society of 

 Friends, and a grocer and draper in Bungay for many years preceding his 

 death. He commenced his career as a naturalist in entomology ; but, how- 

 ever amusing the collecting of insects might be, the destroying them was too 

 revolting for him to practise ; and he then turned his attention to botany, 

 a study which he pursued with ardour nearly to the time of his decease. 

 In his earlier life he was acquainted with Mr. Curtis (author of the Flora 

 Londin^nsis)y Mr. Woodward, and other distinguished naturalists. He dis- 

 covered many rare plants in this neighbourhood, to which his botanical 

 rambles were principally confined ; and he is mentioned in Smith's Flora 

 Britannica and English Flora as the finder of the Ornithogalum luteum at 

 Shipmeadow, about three miles from this town. • Mr. Ashby formed a her- 

 barium of British plants, in which may be found not a few of the uncommon 

 plants of this kingdom. He did not confine himself entirely to botanical 

 pursuits, as he also formed a very excellent collection of coins ; and his 

 specimens of fossils, &c. are also rather numerous. — Daniel Stock. Bun- 

 gay, Feb. 4. 1829. 



Died, Jan. 6., in his 79th year, Robert Stone, Esq. F.L.S., formerly an 

 inhabitant of this town, but for the last twenty years he resided at Beding- 

 ham Hall, in Norfolk, the family estate. Mr. Stone was well known as a 

 botanist. An ample testimony of his labours in the science of botany may 

 be found by a reference to the early editions of Withering's Botanical 

 Arrangement, in which Mr. Stone assisted, and in which his name so fre- 

 quently occurs, that to particularise any instance would be quite useless. 

 His herbarium of British plants is nearly complete. Having spoken of 

 Mr. Stone as a naturalist, aa a man what am I to say of him who was 

 universally esteemed and respected by his friends and acquaintance ? 



