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Hackney, where his father Conrad Loddiges, a German by birth, had 

 established a Nursery and Botanical Garden, which under his able 

 superintendence, and since his death under that of his two sons, has 

 attained the highest reputation both at home and abroad. Among 

 its most remarkable features are the collection of Orchidece, of which 

 a catalogue, extending to upwards of 1900 species and varieties, was 

 published in 1845; and the noble series of 280 Palms, which can 

 scarcely be rivalled in variety and beauty of growth. The house in 

 which the latter are contained was designed without the intervention 

 of an architect, and entirely erected with the assistance only of the 

 workmen employed in the garden. 



At an early period Mr. George Loddiges became a Fellow of the 

 Horticultural Society, of which he was for some years one of the 

 Vice-Presidents; and in 1821 he was elected into the Linnean Society, 

 and has several times been placed upon its Council. He commenced 

 in 1818, in conjunction with his brother, the publication of a work of 

 plates illustrative of the plants cultivated in the nursery at Hackney, 

 under the title of the ' Botanical Cabinet,' and continued it until the 

 number of figures amounted to 2000, of which a large proportion 

 were drawn by himself. His taste for art had induced him to form 

 an extensive collection of impressions of gems from the antique, and 

 he had brought together about 1000 specimens of woods, cut and 

 polished for the better exhibition of their characters. He was also 

 much attached to microscopical investigation, anxious to possess 

 the best and most recent improvements in the instrument, an accu- 

 rate observer and a skilful manipulator. But in nothing were his 

 attachment to natural history, and his skill and taste in the prepa- 

 ration and arrangement of his subjects, more strongly manifested 

 than in his unrivalled collection of Humming- Birds, which extends 

 to more than 200 species, in various states of age and plumage, to 

 the collection and mounting of which he had devoted during twenty 

 years a large portion of his time. It had long been his intention to 

 publish a work illustrative of this beautiful tribe of birds ; but 

 although he had collected much valuable information respecting 

 them, he appears not to have made any advance towards putting it 

 in a state for publication. He died on the 5th of June 1846, at the 

 age of 60, leaving behind him the character of a man of great 

 amiability of disposition, extensive information and liberal spirit. 



Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland, was born on the 20th of 

 April 1785. He was educated at Eton and afterwards at St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, and took his degree of A.M. in 1805, and that 

 of LL.D. in 1809. In 1812 he was called to the House of Peers by 



