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in the course of which he was reported to have been assassinated. 

 The hardships through which he passed during the journey and 

 his excessive application produced, soon after his arrival in Calcutta, 

 a severe attack of fever, on liis recovery from which he was appointed 

 Surgeon to the Embassy to Bootan, then about to depart under the 

 charge of the late Major Pemberton. He took this opportunity of 

 revisiting the Khasiya Hills, among M'hich he formed a most exten- 

 sive collection ; and having joined Major Pemberton at Goalpara, tra- 

 versed with him above 400 miles of the Bootan country, from which 

 he returned to Calcutta about the end of June 1839. In November 

 of the same year he joined the army of the Indus in a scientific ca- 

 pacity, and penetrated, after the subjugation of Cabool, beyond the 

 Hindoo Khoosh into Khorassan, from whence, as well as from AfF- 

 ghanistan, he brought collections of great value and extent. During 

 these arduous journeys his health had several times suffered most 

 severely, and he was more than once reduced by fever to a state of 

 extreme exhaustion ; but up to this time the strength of his consti- 

 tution enabled him to triumph over the attacks of disease, and the 

 energy of his mind was so great, that the first days of convalescence 

 found him again as actively employed as ever. 



On his return to Calcutta in August 1841, after visiting Simla and 

 the Nerbudda, he v/as appointed to the medical duties at Malacca ; 

 but Dr. Wallich having proceeded to the Cape for the re-estabiish- 

 ment of his health, Mr. Griffith was recalled in August 1842 to take, 

 during his absence, the superintendence of the Botanic Garden near 

 Calcutta, in conjunction with which he also discharged the duties of 

 Botanical Professor in the Medical College to the great advantage of 

 the students. Towards the end of 1844 Dr. Wallich resumed his 

 functions at the Botanic Garden. In September Mr. Griffith mar- 

 ried Miss Henderson, the sister of the wife of his brother. Captain 

 Griffith, and on the 11th of December he quitted Calcutta to return 

 to Malacca, where he arrived on the 9th of January in the present 

 year. On the 31st of the same month he was attacked by hepatitis, 

 and notwithstanding every attention on the part of the medical of- 

 ficer who had officiated during his absence and who fortunately still 

 remained, he gradually sunk under the attack, which terminated 

 fatally on the 9th of February. " His constitution," says his at- 

 tached friend, Mr. MacClelland, in a letter to Dr. Horsfield, " seemed 

 for the last two or three years greatly shattered, his energies alone 

 remaining unchanged. Exposure during his former journeys and 

 travels laid the seeds of his fatal malady in his constitution, while 

 his anxiety about his pursuits and his zeal increased. He became 



