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who was SO well able to appreciate her worth, pays a beau- 

 tiful and tender tribute to her memory. ^^ But few, if any 

 besides myself, can appreciate her many amiable qualities ; 

 her liberality, her pleasure in communicating knowledge, 

 her delight in being useful, the rapture she felt in tracing 

 the works of the Divine Hand, and the union in her of 

 those virtues which embellish and improve mankind. Three 

 years have now elapsed since she died, and every succeeding 

 year makes me feel more deeply what I have lost, and how 

 with her is gone a great part of the pleasure I derived from 

 these pursuits. 



" In every season of the beauteous year 

 Her eye was open, and with, studious love 

 Eead the Divine Creator in his works. 

 Chiefly in thee, sweet spring, when every nook 

 Some latent beauty to her wakeful search 

 Presented, some sweet flower, some virtual plant. 

 In every native of the hill and vale 

 She found attraction, and, when beauty fail'd. 

 Applauded odour or commended use. 

 " Hen ! quauto minus est 



Cum reliquis versari 



Quam tui meminisse ! " * 



Mr. Dillwyn^s ' History of British Confervse ' cannot but 

 be prized by all who are acquainted with it, as it has so 

 * From Mr. D. Turner's ' Historia Fucorum.' 



