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logue of the Plants growing in the Hon. East India Com- 

 pany's Botanic Garden at Calcutta," Dr. Roxburgh's health 

 obliged him to visit St. Helena, and eventually Europe, where 

 he died; leaving unpublished valuable materials for a jp/ora 

 Indica. A part, at least, of these. Dr. Carey undertook to 

 give to the world, in 2 vols. 8vo., which appeared in 1820 

 and 1824, and which extend to the end of the Class Pentan- 

 dria and Order Monogynia of the Linnsean System. Here, 

 likewise, were included many plants, first made known by 

 the exertions of Dr. Wallich and Dr. Jack, whose merits are 

 beyond all praise, and the former of whom will be more par- 

 ticularly mentioned hereafter. 



For a short interval, Dr. Francis Buchanan, who after- 

 wards took the name of Hamilton, was appointed to the care 

 of the Botanic Garden. His extensive travels, first to the 

 Court of Ava, when he had the opportunity of seeing the 

 kinirdom of Pegu and the Andamman Isles, then over the 

 greater part of the Peninsula, and into Nepal, gave him 

 facilities for studying the plants of an immense extent of 

 Indian territory, and many species, drawings, and descrip- 

 tions were sent by him to Europe, and deposited, either in 

 the museum of Sir Joseph Banks, Sir J. E. Smith, or of the 

 East India Company. Some of his plants were published 

 by Sir J. E. Smith in his Exotic Botany ; while the Nepal 

 Collections, together with many from Dr. Wallich, consti- 

 tute the materials from which was published the Prodronius 

 Florce Nepalensis, by Mr. D. Don. Many Botanical me- 

 moirs, relative to the vegetable productions of India, were 

 given by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton to the Transactions of the 

 Linnaean Society. In the same work has appeared his 

 learned Commentary on the Hortus Malaharicus ; and in the 

 Transactions of the Wernerian Society, his Commentary on 

 the Herbarium Amboynense. After suffering much from ill 

 health, and after enriching various Transactions with his 

 remarks on different subjects, both scientific and literary, 

 this able naturalist died in the autumn of last year, (1829,) at 

 his beautiful seat of Leny, in Scotland. 



The circumstance of Dr. Wallich being appointed as sue- 



