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of arrival and departure in the migratory species, and also to the 

 breeding and habits of domestic animals. 



He published in the Transactions of the Linnaean Society a paper 

 on a new species of Gull from Greenland; and an account of the 

 Marmots of North America, with a description of three new species ; 

 and he wrote the Zoological Appendix to Capt. Franklin's Journey 

 of 1819— 1822. 



He also contributed two papers on the Chrysanthemum Indicum of 

 Linnaeus, which he distinguished from what he has named the C. Si- 

 nense, the common plant of our gardens, imported into Europe in 1 789 ; 

 and there is a paper to appear in the forthcoming Part on the Rose 

 found by Sherard, a genus to which he had paid great attention. 



A friend of his has furnished me with a list of forty papers which 

 he contributed to the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, and 

 these may surely be regarded as proofs of the iiiterest he took in its 

 objects and welfare. 



I allude to his connexion with that Society with hesitation, because 

 I am ignorant on the subject j but I feel that the claims for justice to 

 the memory of Mr. Sabine will have greater weight, if there be no 

 disposition to conceal the acknowledged evils which arose from his 

 want of method in the management of its finances. Those evils, 

 their causes and effects, 1 unaffectedly regret, and I rejoice that they 

 have been remedied by the well-directed efforts of others ; and with 

 these acknowledgements I hope I may without impropriety quote the 

 charitable sentiments of one who has not been at all times sparing of 

 the literary deficiencies of his cotemporaries. Lord Jeffrey, in his 

 notice of Rogers's poem of Human Life, has this admirable passage, 

 which I think suited to the present occasion : 



"When the inordinate hopes of youth, which provoke their own 

 disappointment, have been sobered down by longer experience and 

 more extended views ; when the keen contentions and eager rivalries 

 which employed our riper years have expired or been abandoned; 

 when we have seen year after year the objects of our fiercest hosti- 

 lity and of our fondest affections lie down together in the hallowed 

 peace of the gravej when ordinary pleasures and amusements begin 

 to be insipid, and the gay derision which seasoned them to appear 

 fiat and importunate ; when we reflect how often we have mourned 

 and been comforted, what opposite opinions we have successively 

 maintained and abandoned, to what inconsistent habits we have gra- 

 dually been formed, and how frequently the objects of our pride have 

 proved the sources of our shame ; we are naturally led to recur to 

 the days of our childhood, and to retrace the whole of our career and 

 that of our cotemporaries with feelings of far greater humility and 

 indulgence than those by which it had been accompanied j to think 

 all vain but affection and honour, the simplest and cheapest pleasures 

 the truest and most precious, and generosity of sentiment the only 

 mental superiority which ought either to be wished for or admired.'* 

 The Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, Bart., F.ft.S. 

 Rev. George Henry Storie, M.A., of CamberweU, 

 Mr. White Watson, of Bakewell. 



