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one of the most useful cultural treatises ever penned, the 'Manuel 

 de I'amateur des jardins,' 1862-72, in 4 volumes, some portion 

 of which was adapted to English needs by Mr. W. B. Hemsley 

 in 1873. 



About 1872 he relinquished his post at the Jardin des Plantes, 

 and settled at Collioure in the Eastern Pyrenees. Here, in a 

 suitable climate, he was able to continue his experiments, and 

 w iden the cultivation of some plants of recent introduction or of 

 economic value. 



After the death of Gustave Thuret in 1875, the Villa Thuret with 

 its wonderful garden was presented to the French nation by his 

 representatives. Thenceforw^ard this garden was worked as an 

 adjunct to the Paris Garden, and the care of it committed to 

 Naudin, than whom no more competent person could have been 

 selected. He threw himself into the work with characteristic ze;il 

 and energy, and opened up communications especially with 

 Algeria and with Sir E. von Mueller. To the latter he was 

 indebted for his plan of the ' Manuel de I'Acclimateur,' which is 

 avowedly based on the ' Select Extra-Tropical Plants ' of the 

 Australian phytographer. 



Deafness from 1848 onwards w^as a bar to Naudin's free 

 intercourse with the worlds of botany or gardeniug ; in our 

 'Proceedings' for 1887-1889, p. 95, will be found an allusion 

 to a discussion with Planthon in Paris, when Naudin's disuse of 

 his ear-trumpet was employed to discomfit his antagonist. His 

 connection with our Society extended over nearly thirty years, he 

 having been elected Foreign Member on 5th May, 1870. 



Henet Alleyne Nicholson, son of John Nicholson, a distin- 

 guished Oriental scholar, was born at Penrith in 1844, and 

 educated at Appleby Grammar School and the University of 

 Gottiugen. In 1862 he entt-red the Medical Srhool of the 

 Edinburgh University, and during the six years which followed 

 he was prominent as a student, taking first-class honours in all 

 subjects, the award of the University Gold Medal and the 

 Baxter Scholarship ; while in 1869, after he had graduated as 

 Bachelor of Medicine and of Science and Master of Surgery, 

 and had taken the D.Sc, he prcceeded to his M.p., and was 

 awarded the Ettles Scholarship, as the most distinguished student 

 in Medicine of his year. 



Nicholson commenced active life as a medical practitioner, but 

 that occupation was early given up ia preference for natural 

 history pursuits. After a shtrt period as Lecturer on Natural 

 History in the Extramural School of Medicine at Edinburgh, he 

 was in 1871 appointed to the Professorship of that subject in the 

 Q'oronto University. Three ytars later he was appointed to the 

 Chair of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology in theEoyal College 

 of Science for Ireland, but before he could reach the Irish 

 capital he was ofiered the Professorship of Biology m the 

 Durham College of Physical Science and Medicine. This he 



