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from time to time, as additional species and additional infor- 

 mation present themselves. Various have been the assistance 

 and contributions received from different sources towards 

 promoting the interests of this volume, but acknowledi^- 

 inents are more especially expressed to Mr Law of the Civil 

 Service, together with Drs Lush, Gibson, Murray, and 

 Headle of the Medical establishment, with all of whom the 

 Author was in constant correspondence, and from whom he 

 received very important aid. With regard to Mr Graham 

 himself, we learn that he was a native of Dumfries-siiire, and 

 that he arrived in India in 1828, under the patronage of the 

 late Sir Jolm Malcolm, who was at that time Governor of the 

 Bombay Presidency, and that he was honoured with his 

 friendship and esteem, and resided in his family until he was 

 nominated by him Deputy Post-master-General, an appoint- 

 ment he held till the period of his death. He possessed a 

 combination of qualities which peculiarly fitted him for that 

 office. The performance of his arduous duties, indeed, left 

 him little leisure for the prosecution of his favourite pursuit; 

 but the few and brief opportunities, which were afforded him, 

 were eagerly seized and improved; and one of the objects he 

 had most at heart while superintendent of the Society's 

 Garden, shortly after its establishment, was to store it with 

 an extensive assortment of rare, wild, as well as useful Indian 

 plants, chiefly collected by himself. He expired at Khandalla, 

 the favourite scene of his botanical researches, on the 2Sth 

 of May, 1839, at the age of 34, after only a few days' illness. 

 The intelligence of his decease was received at every station 

 within the Presidency, with an almost universal feeling of 

 sorrow and regret, and his friends have testified their admi- 

 ration of his character, and their grief for his death, by tiie 

 erection of a handsome monument over his grave. 



To Mr Nimmo, this country, Britain, and the Glasgow- 

 Botanic Garden in particular, is indebted for the introduction 

 of several rare and beautiful Indian plants: amongst them the 

 singular Impatkns scapiflora (W. and A.), in the Botanical 

 Magazine, tab. 3587, the splendid Habenaria giganteoy 



