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opportunities of enlarging his knowledge of plants, as well as of 

 studying the best and most improved methods of cultivation. In 

 1815, on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks and Sir James 

 Edward Smith, he was appointed by the Society of Apothecaries to 

 the Curatorship of their Botanic Garden at Chelsea, then vacant by 

 the death of Mr. Fairbairn ; and their choice was amply justified by 

 the result. He speedily retrieved the garden from the state of neg- 

 lect and dilapidation into which it had fallen, and placed it in a 

 thriving and respectable condition, in which he continued to main- 

 tain it (as far as the small amount of funds allotted for its support 

 would admit) until his decease. He was elected an Associate of the 

 Linnean Society in 1798, and became a Fellow in 1815, always 

 taking a warm interest in its prosperity, and attending its meetings 

 with the utmost regularity. He died on the 6th of October 1846, at 

 an age approaching 80, having been for nearly thirty-two years 

 Curator of the Botanic Garden at Chelsea, and having borne through 

 life the character of a strictly honourable, upright and independent 

 man, which qualities, he combined with a warm heart and a charit- 

 able disposition. 



The following are the titles of his communications to the ' Gar- 

 dener's Magazine ' and other horticultural publications : — 



" On packing and preserving Seeds (of Corypha Taliera)." — Gard. 

 Mag. vol. i. p. 210. 



" On Budding the Peach and Nectarine on Almond Stocks." — 

 Ibid. vol. i. p. 384. 



" On a durable Earthenware Number Tally." — Ibid. vol. v. p. 263. 



" On Breaking Stones in Gravel Walks." — Ibid. vol. v. p. 459. 



" On the advantage of building the Furnaces of Greenhouses, &c. 

 within the house." — Ibid. vol. xi. p. 247. 



" On protecting the Crocus, when in blossom, from Sparrows." — 

 Ibid. vol. xiii. p. 172. 



" A mode of destroying the White Bug in Hot-houses." — Ibid. 

 vol. xvi. p. 110. 



" On the Hautboy Strawberry." — Ibid. vol. xvii. p. 266. 



" On the introduction and cultivation of a variety of Azalea indica." 

 — Hort. Trans, vol. ii. p. 259. 



Extract of a letter from Mr. Anderson to M. Otto, Director of 

 the Berlin Botanic Garden, containing observations on some weep- 

 ing varieties of the Hawthorn, Elm, Ash, &c., and on their repro- 

 duction by seed. — Verhandlungen des Vereins zur Beforderung des 

 Gartenbaues, &c., Berlin, vol. v. p. 280. 



Thomas Bevan, Esq., M.D. 



