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but were literally doubled. Rising early and going to bed late, 

 and rarely going into society, the whole of his mornings and even- 

 ings were devoted to scientific botany. The species Filicuni, pre- 

 pared wholly at Kew, is of itself a sufficient monument of one 

 man's industry ; and when to this we add that he published from 

 his own pen upwards of fifty volumes of descriptive botany, all of 

 them of merit and standard authority, it must be confessed that 

 his public career has in no way interfered with his scientific one. 

 Indeed, up to the day of his death his publications were progress- 

 ing as busily as ever, and the first part had appeared of a new 

 work, the ' Synopsis Filicuni,' for the continuation of which ex- 

 tensive preparations had been made. 



Not content with publishing himself, he was always forward in 

 obtaining for others remunerative botanical employment. Besides 

 numberless appointments given to young and rising gardeners and 

 botanists, he procured the publication of the results of many 

 scientific expeditions and missions, and latterly, after many years' 

 strenuous exertion, he induced almost all our Indian and Colonial 

 Governments to employ botanists upon the publication of their 

 Floras. 



In person Sir William Hooker was tall and good-looking, with 

 a peculiarly erect and agile gait, which he retained to the end of 

 his life. His address and bearing were singularly genial and 

 urbane, and he was as remarkable for the liberality and upright- 

 ness of his disposition, as for the simplicity of his manners and 

 the attractive style of his conversation. 



He died at Kew, of a disease of the throat, then epidemic at that 

 place, on the 12th of August, having just completed his eightieth 

 year. His widow survives him, a lady whose varied accomplish- 

 ments were of invaluable assistance to him in his scientific labors 

 throughout his married life ; and he leaves one son, the present 

 Assistant-Director of the Royal Gardens, and two married 

 daughters. — London Athenaeum. 



DR. LINDLEY. 



Science has just sustained a heavy loss by the death of Dr. 

 John Lindley, one of the most hard-working and celebrated 

 botanists England has ever produced. Dr. Lindley was born at 

 Catton, Norfolk, in 1799, and at an early age turned his attention 

 to the study of the Vegetable Kingdom. When he first entered 

 scientific life, botany was just emancipating itself from the deaden- 

 ing influence of the artificial system, in this country upheld by a 



