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He was not able to avoid all personal controversy ; but there 

 must be few who do not regret that his closing years should have 

 been disturbed by the issue of an inviduous publication actuated 

 by personal feeling against Decaisne. 



Michael Pakeniiam Edgewoeth was the youngest son of 

 Eichard Lowell Edgeworth and Frances Anne, daughter of the 

 Eev. Dr. Beaufort, and was half brother of Miss Maria Edge- 

 worth, the novelist. He was born on the 24th May, 1812 ; that 

 is, he would have reached his sixtieth birthday today had he 

 lived so long. In September 1823 he entered the Charter- 

 house, from whence, in 1827, he went to Edinburgh, where he 

 first began to study oriental languages ; and there also he studied 

 botany under the elder M'Nab. After a distinguished career 

 at Haileybury, he went to India in 1831 in the Civil Service. 

 He was appointed to Ambala and Saharunpore, where his 

 administration received the ajiprobation of his superiors and the 

 grateful appreciation of the natives. In 1812 he came home 

 on leave; and in 1846 he married Christina, daughter of Dr. 

 Macpherson, King's College, Aberdeen, returning the same year 

 to India. 



On his way out he took advantage of the steamer coaling at 

 Aden to look about him for plants ; he published his results in 

 the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal under the title of 

 " Two Hours' Herborizatiou at Aden : " of the forty species he 

 collected in that brief space of time in so frequented a locality, 

 eleven were new to science. 



He was stationed at Bauda till 1850, when he was selected as 

 one of the five Commissioners for the Settlement of the Punjaub, 

 first at Moolton, afterwards at Jullundur ; but he was obliged 

 to leave India owing to a sunstroke, and, to his deep regret, he 

 was never able to return thither. He died suddenly in the Island 

 of Eigg on 30th of July last. 



His local lists of Indian plants have received the warm com- 

 mendation of Drs. Hooker and Thomson in the Introductory 

 Essay to their 'Flora Indica.' He also published some papers 

 which have appeared iu our publications ; a Grammar of Kash- 

 miri ; and his last work, on Pollen, which saw the light in 1878. 



EoNALD Campbell Gunn was born at the Cape of Good Hope 

 in 1808 ; but passed the greater part of liis life in Tasmania, 

 holding several official positions, arriving there in 1830. He 

 began to work at the flora of that island in the following year ; 

 and his labours in that direction were acknowledged in Dr. 

 Hooker's * Plora of Tasmania.' In 1850 he was elected Fellow 

 of the Society, and in 1854 Fellow of the Eoyal Society. He 

 was Editor for some time of the ' Tasmanian Journal,' published 

 under the auspices of the Eoyal Society of Tasmania. The 

 number of papers attributed to him in the Eoyal Society's Cata- 

 logue of Scientific Papers is ten, two being elaborated in conjunc- 



