ADVERTISEMENT, Vil 
physician and a botanist, whose premature death has terminated a 
dereer of honourable usefulness and of active, liberal and efficient 
prosecution of science. His friends cannot remember without re- 
gret a man, who had the rare quality of being learned without 
ostentation, who was ambitious of usefulness more than of fame, 
and who sought rather to be valuable to others than just to him- 
self, 
As the materials for the rest of the American Medical Bota- 
ny are now principally collected, and most of the drawings 
finished ; the remaining numbers will be issued with as much 
promptness and regularity, as is consistent with their faithful 
execution. | 
