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discouraged a less euergetic mau. Dr. Anderson was frequently on 

 horseback ten or twelve hours in the day, and often in continuous 

 rain. He had to visit the close tropical valleys, and then to mount 

 to Darjeeling, which he often reached chilled through and completely 

 exhausted. It is thought that these journeys to the low-level 

 plantations were the origin of the fever which fastened upon him, 

 and which at last caused his death. His labours, however, were 

 completely successful, so far as the object of the Government was 

 concerned. When he left India in February 1869 he had over- 

 come every difliculty in the cultivation of Cinchona succirnhra and 

 C. Calisaya, and had left to his successors the easy task of extending 

 the plantations by mere imitation. In February 1869 he was com- 

 pelled to return to England on account of dangerous illness, though 

 his friends feared lest his strength should prove insufficient to bear 

 the journey. He reached his native land in a very weak state, but 

 soon recovered sufficiently to enable him to prosecute his botanical 

 work. He began in earnest at the ' Flora of India ; ' and there was 

 good reason to hope that this greatly desiderated Flora would ere 

 long be published. In the summer of 1870, however, he suffered 

 a relapse, which compelled him to discontinue his labours ; and 

 although he sought by quiet and rest to recover his health, he never 

 rallied, and on the 26th of October last died at Edinburgh. 



Abstracts of Dr. Anderson's valuable Reports on the Cinchona 

 Plantations have been printed at different times in Seemann's Journal 

 of Botany, where is also to be found an interesting account of the 

 terrible cyclone which in 1865 brought desolation to the gardens 

 under Dr. Anderson's care. Besides these official communications. 

 Dr. Anderson published the following papers on systematic botany : — 



" Florula Adenensis." Supplement to vol. v. Linn. Soc. Journ. 

 (1860). 



" On Sphcerocoma, a New Genus of Caryopliyllece." Linn. Soc. 

 Journ. vol. v. p. 15 (1861). 



" An Enumeration of the Species of Acanihacece from the conti- 

 nent of Africa." Linn. Soc. Journ. vol. vii. p. 13 (1864). 



*' On a presumed case of Parthenogenesis in a Species of Aberia," 

 I. c. p. 67. 



" On the Identification of the Acantluicece of the Linuean Her- 

 barium," 1. c. p. 111. 



"An Enumeration of the Species of Ceylon Acanihacece," in 

 Thwaites's ' Enum. Plant. Zeyl.' p. 223 (1864). 



"Aphelandm ornata from Brazil." Seemann's 'Journ. Bot.' 

 vol. ii. p. 289 (1864). , 



