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Kussell at the attack on Copenhagen, and was afterwards Flag 

 Medical Officer to Lord Nelson in the Mediterranean, and had 

 charge of the hospital at Gibraltar during the fever which raged 

 in 1804 and 1805. He was elected FeUow of the Colleges of 

 Physicians of London and Edinburgh, and became Physician Ex- 

 traordinary to the Duke of Clarence when appointed Lord High 

 Admiral. In 1841 he was promoted to the rank of Inspector of 

 Hospitals, and continued during the remainder of his life to reside 

 at Plymouth, where he died on the 12th of last June, at the age of 

 82. His remains were interred in the burying-ground of St. An- 

 drew's church, and were attended to the grave by a large concourse 

 of people, including many of the neighbouring gentry. He became 

 a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1816, of the Eoyal Society 

 in 1 819, and was likewise a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, 

 and a Fellow of the Geological Society. Besides the distinctions 

 already mentioned, he had a medal with two clasps for Camper- 

 down and Copenhagen, and was a Ejiight Commander of the 

 Portuguese Order of the Cross of Christ. 



John Forbes Boyle, Esq., M.D., F.B.S., F.O.S., Officer of the 

 Legion of Honour, was the only son of Capt. William Henry 

 Boyle, an officer in the service of tlie Hon. East India Company, 

 and was born at Cawnpore. Having lost his father while yet a 

 child, he received his early education, first under the care of Dr. 

 Sangster, and afterwards at the High School of Edinburgh. He 

 was originally destined for the profession of arms ; but while 

 waiting for an appointment at Addiscombe, he became a pupil of 

 Dr. Anthony Todd Thomson, under whose able tuition he acquired 

 so strong a taste for Natural History, and especially for Botany 

 and its useful applications, that he was induced to decline the 

 military appointment, and to accept in its place, as soon as he had 

 obtained his diploma, an Assistant- Surgeoncy in the Company's 

 service. In 1819 he proceeded to Calcutta on the medical staif of 

 the Bengal army. He was first posted to the artillery at Dum- 

 dum, and for two or three years afterwards he was moved from 

 station to station in Bengal or the North-western provinces, dis- 

 charging subordinate medical duties, as the ordinary routine and 

 exigencies of the service demanded. While thus employed, he 

 availed himself of every opportunity that change of locality afforded 

 to acquire a knowledge of the natural productions of the country. 

 Among these, the study of Indian plants occupied the first place, 

 and drew him into correspondence with Dr. Wallich, at that time 

 Superintendent of the Hon. Company's Botanical Garden at Cal- 



