1846.] Linnean Society. 303 



the Southern Mahratta country, along the coast of Canara, and visit- 

 ing the Portuguese settlement of Goa, &c. in order to select a suit- 

 able spot for the establishment of an experimental cotton- farm. His 

 report of the results of this journey was published with the appro- 

 bation of the authorities, and circulated among all the magistrates 

 and other functionaries. From 1830 to 1833 he had the direction 

 of some experiments in the cultivation of silk and cotton carried on 

 in the Southern Provinces, and in 1833 made a report to the Govern- 

 ment respecting mulberries for the feeding of the silk- worms. In 

 1836 he visited the cotton districts in Guzerat, for the purpose of 

 inspecting the different farms, on the subject of which he furnished 

 a report ; and in the same year he communicated to the Medical 

 and Physical Society of Bombay, a paper published in December in 

 the * Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' entitled " Geological 

 Notes on the Northern Conkan, and a small portion of Guzerat and 

 Kattywar." In this paper he mentions the discovery by himself in 

 the Island of Perim, in the Gulf of Cambay, of a large deposit of 

 fossil bones, which has since been more fully investigated by Capt. 

 Fulljames and Dr. Falconer, and has been found to comprise some 

 of the most remarkable among the very extraordinary fossils for the 

 knowledge of which we have recently been indebted to the natu- 

 ralists of India. 



In 1837 he returned to England overland, and in 1840 again pro- 

 ceeded to India, where he was appointed surgeon to the 14th Bom- 

 bay Native Infantry, and accompanied that regiment in 1 844 to Kur- 

 rachee in Scinde, and in 1845 to Hydrabad, where he fell a victim 

 to spasmodic cholera on the 4th of July, in the 49th or 50th year of 

 his age. 



In character Dr. Lush was well-known to many of our members 

 as warm-hearted, sincere, and of so sweet a disposition, that I am 

 assured by one of our Fellows who knew him best, that during a 

 close intimacy of many years he never saw him out of temper. He 

 was a constant peacemaker, and his simplicity was extraordinary. 

 His talents were excellent, and had his application been equal, there 

 is no doubt that he would have attained a high position in science. 



Peter Nouaille, Esq. 



Of our Associates we have lost two during the past year. 



Mr. James Main began life as a working gardener in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Edinburgh, andAvas afterwards employed by Mr. George 

 Hibbert, to whom we are indebted for the introduction of many va- 

 luable plants through the means of collectors whom he sent abroad. 



