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him in the business of this Society ; but those who knew him most 

 intimately concur in testifying that his naturally amiable mind was 

 indebted for much of its charm to the pervading influence of a deep 

 religious principle ; that he sought after God, not in his works only, 

 but in his word also ; and that he closed his blameless and useful 

 life by a death robbed of its sting, and left this world with a humble 

 reliance upon the promise of better things to come. 



We have lost another and very kindred spirit by the death of 

 Colonel Edward Madden. Him I knew intimately, and though his 

 favourite track of science was very remote from my pursuits, I soon 

 learned that his mind had many sides and could not fail to interest 

 any one who had a respect for talent or a love for goodness. Colonel 

 Madden joined our Society in 1853, and not having, as far as I 

 know, read any papers at our meetings, he was probably little 

 known to a large portion of the Fellows. But his character and 

 attainments were well known to botanists, and they gave a sufficient 

 proof of the estimation in which they held him by electing him to the 

 Presidency of the Botanical Society. He was, soon after his ad- 

 mission as a Fellow, elected into the Council of this Society, and 

 rendered valuable assistance as a member of the Library Commit- 

 tee, from his extensive knowledge, not of his own science only, but 

 also of the apparatus required by the student of geography and 

 of philology. 



I have to express my gratitude to Dr Falconer of London for 

 having supplied me with notices respecting Colonel Madden's pur- 

 suit of Science in India, much beyond what I can use on the pre- 

 sent occasion, and which I shall return to him, in the hope that he 

 may employ them in raising a worthy memorial of our departed 

 friend. 



From these notices it appears that before Colonel Madden's at- 

 tention had been directed to the vegetable kingdom, and when he 

 was a lieutenant of artillery in the Company's service, he employed 

 a leave of absence in search of health among the lower ridges of 

 the Himalaya. Health he found ; but he found something more, — 

 his own proper vocation as a lover and a student of nature. In no 

 other region, probably, could his natural powers and tendencies have 

 been so strongly called into action. No region presents the leading 

 phenomena of physical geography in greater contrast, both as regards 



