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Pemambuco, Bahia and Mexico. In these various localities, espe- 

 cially in the latter, his position and his taste enabled him to render 

 considerable services to botany by the introduction of new and va- 

 luable plants, for many of which our conservatories are indebted to 

 his active exertions. 



He retired from public service a few years ago, and has since been 

 a frequent attendant at our meetings, taking a lively interest in the 

 proceedings of the Society, of which he had been for nearly fifty-two 

 years a Fellow. He died at Paris on the 3rd of April in the present 

 year. 



Edward Rudge, Esq., was descended from a merchant and alder- 

 man of London of the same names, who in 1664 purchased of Mr. 

 William Courten (whose collections in natural history formed the 

 foundation of the Sloanean Museum) a large portion of the Abbey 

 estate at Evesham, to which estate our late member succeeded, and 

 to which he also made considerable additions. He was born on the 

 27th of June 1763, and derived his taste for botany, which he early 

 cultivated by the collection of British plants, from an uncle, who 

 commenced the formation of an herbarium, which was followed up 

 and greatly added to by the nephew. The acquisition of a fine 

 series of the plants of Guiana collected by M. Martin, a French 

 collector of great skill and judgment, who lost by the fortune of war 

 two successive and valuable collections of plants, induced him to 

 turn his attention more particularly towards the flora of that coun- 

 try, and he published in 1807 a folio volume of selections, carefully 

 made, under the title of ' Plantarum Guianse Rariorum Icones et 

 Descriptiones.' The illustrations to this volume. In the preparation 

 of which he derived some assistance from Mr. R. A. Salisbury, were 

 from the pencil of the first Mrs. Rudge. 



Mr. Rudge became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1802, and 

 communicated several papers to its ' Transactions ' in the course of 

 the ten following years. These are severally entitled — 



" Descriptions of some species of Carex from North America," 

 vol. vii. p. 96. 



" Descriptions of seven new species of Plants from New Holland," 

 vol. viii. p. 291. 



" Description of a new species of Dimorpha," vol. ix. p. 197. 



" A description of several species of Plants from New Holland," 

 voL X. p. 283. 



" A description of several new species of Plants from New Hol- 

 land," vol. ii. p. 296. 



In the eighth volume of our ' Transactions' Mr. R. A. Salisbury 



