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man of very active habits ; rising daily at 6 o'clock, usually spending 

 an hour before breakfast in his garden, in which he cultivated many 

 of the rarer and more obscure British species, and taking a great 

 deal of bodily exercise, which, together with his extreme temperance, 

 probably contributed greatly to the prolongation of his life. His 

 death, which took place in the 84th year of his age, at his residence. 

 Ivy House, Woodford, on Wednesday the 21st of February in the 

 present year, was occasioned by an attack of cholera, contracted, as 

 was supposed, a few days pre\dously at the Refuge for the Destitute, 

 of which valuable charity he had long been a most zealous and 

 liberal supporter. He was buried on the 1st of March in the family- 

 vault at Walthamstow, in the immediate neighbourhood of which his 

 whole life had been spent. 



Mr. Forster possessed a very complete and well-arranged herba- 

 rium of British plants, and particularly devoted himself to those of his 

 native county of Essex ; and he had long entertained the intention 

 of publishing its " Flora," the manuscript of which he has left in au 

 imperfect state. His contributions to our ' Transactions ' are limited 

 to two papers ; the one " On Vicia angustifolia. Smith," in vol. xvi. ; 

 and the other " On Esula major Germanica of Lobel," in vol. xvii. ; 

 but he also published several papers on subjects connected with 

 Enghsh botany in the 'Phytologist,' the titles of which are as follows : 



1. Note on Centranthus Calcitrapa, vol. i. p. 648. 



2. Note on Aspidium spinulosum, vol. i. p. 814. 



3. Notes on Botanical Classification, vol. i. p. 913. 



4. Note on Primula elatior, vol. i. p. 974. 



5. On Arenaria uliginosa, Leersia oryzoides, and Galium Vaillantii, 

 vol. ii. p. 1 . 



6. On (Enanthe pimpinelloides and CEn. Lachenalii, vol. ii. p. 403. 



7. Corrections of erroneous habitats given to British Plants, vol. ii. 

 p. 609. 



S. On the occurrence of Juncus diffusus in Epping Forest, vol. ii. 

 p. 941. 



9. Note on the Viola flavicornis of Smith, vol. ii. p. 963. 



10. Further Remarks on Viola flavicornis, vol. iii. p. 31. 



Mr. Forster married early in life, but has left no children ; his 

 property being bequeathed to the descendants of his elder brother 

 Thomas Furly Forster, also formerly a Fellow of the Linnean Society, 

 and a distinguished cultivator of English botany. 



George Gardner, Esq., was born in Glasgow in May 1812, and was 

 educated for the medical profession in the University of that city. 

 He displayed at an early period a taste for the study of natural 



