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then proceeding to a History of the Inductive Sciences, and a Philoso- 

 phy of the same, afterward called a History of Scientific Ideas ; passing 

 thence to the editing of Mackintosh's Introduction to Ethical Philoso- 

 phy, to volumes of his own upon Morals, and to translations from 

 Plato's Ethical Dialogues ; then to the editing of Richard Jones on 

 Pohtical Economy, and a volume of his own upon that subject, and 

 finally amusing himself with Notes on the Architecture of Churches in 

 France and Germany, writing EngHsh Hexameters, and an anonymous 

 book on the Plurality of Worlds. 



Dr. Whewell undoubtedly exercised a large influence on public edu- 

 cation in England, especially in commending the physical sciences, and 

 giving them an honorable place in the University at Cambridge. His 

 style was singularly clear, and his views of every subject comprehen- 

 sive, if not marked by peculiar originality. His attachment to the Col- 

 lege in which he was educated was earnest, and showed itself not only 

 in his pertinacious resistance of every claim or pretension on the part 

 of others which he thought inconsistent with her dignity, even when 

 claiming rights in behalf of the Crown ; but also by his munificent gift 

 of a large hostel for her students, and of an endowment for its support 

 and enlargement. 



The names of Hooker and Lindlet, which stood side by side in 

 our botanical section, are naturally associated as those of the two most 

 eminent botanists in Great Britain, — also by the parallel course, and 

 near coincidence in the close, of their lives. Born in the same neigh- 

 borhood, in youth receiving their education at the same school, and 

 early drawn together by similar predilections, they both devoted them- 

 selves with singular energy and perseverance to their chosen pursuit ; 

 exerted for many yeax's, although in somewhat different ways, a para- 

 mount influence upon the advancement of botanical science ; and died 

 near together in place and time, — the elder at Kew, on the 12th of 

 August last, at the age of eighty-one years ; the younger at Turnham 

 Green, on the first of the ensuing November, at the age of sixty-six 

 years. For a long time they were the two most distinguished teachers 

 in Great Britain, one at a northern, the other at the metropolitan Uni- 

 versity. They severally conducted two of the principal serial works 

 by which botany contributes to floriculture; and they developed into 

 highest usefulness those two great establishments, the Royal Gardens 

 at Kew, and the Horticultural Society of London. Both wrote and 

 published largely ; — Hooker only upon descriptive botany, in which he 



