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graphical distributiou and uses of upwards of 800 species. In 

 another respect also Dr. Stewart rendered great service to the 

 cause of forest-administration in India ; for he commenced the 

 large and now flourishing plantations in the plains of the Punjab. 

 In 1869, after twelve years of unremitting labour, mental and 

 bodily, Dr. Stewart returned to England, and the Grovernment of 

 India entrusted him with the preparation at Kew of a Forest Flora 

 of Northern and Central India ; and with a view to include the 

 principal trees and shrubs of those districts which Dr. Stewart 

 had not visited, a young forest-officer, Mr. Richard Thompson, 

 was, at his suggestion, deputed to collect plants and notes in Oudh 

 and the Central Provinces. To this great work, which purposes to 

 give an account of the natural history of the trees and principal 

 shrubs and climbers in the forests. Dr. Stewart devoted a large 

 part of his furlough ; and he would doubtless have completed it in 

 a satisfactory manner if his health had not given way. He was 

 naturally of a highly nervous temperament ; and during the latter 

 part of his residence in England it was evident to his friends 

 that his general health was much impaired. This was further 

 apparent on his return to India, when, after a few months of 

 office work, sickness obliged him to move (June 1873) from 

 Lahore to the Hill Sanitarium at Dalhousie, where he gradu- 

 ally sank from paralysis and died on the 5th of July, 1873, at 

 the age of forty-one. Post-mortem examination revealed ex- 

 tensive tubercular deposit in the brain. He was kind and ge- 

 nerous to all who required his help ; and his loss is regretted 

 by a large number of friends in India and in this country. 



Dr. Stewart was a Member of numerous learned Societies, 

 and, among others, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh and of the Royal Geographical Society. He was 

 elected a Fellow of this Society on the 10th of January, 1865. 



Thomas Tuenee, Hon. Fellow of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons, died on the 7th of December, 1873, in his 81st year. He 

 was the author of a work called ' Outlines of Medico- Chirurgical 

 Science,' of ' Observations on Aneurism and Haemorrhage,' of a 

 ' Treatise on the Dislocation of the Astragalus,' &c., and of a 

 ' Retrospect of Anatomy and Pliysiology.' Mr. Turner was 

 elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on the 6th of June, 

 1843. 



