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Germany ; and in the last year of his life he traversed the South of 

 France and crossed the Pyrenees into Catalonia. So strong indeed 

 was he yet in spirit, that he was seriously meditating a voyage to 

 Ceylon, when an attack of grippe, combined with stone, from which 

 he had latterly suffered much, carried him off on the first day of the 

 present year. Respectable as a sj^stematist, Link took a high rank 

 as a physiological botanist ; and the philosophical bent of his mind 

 is strongly developed in those works, such as his ' Philosophiae 

 Botanicae Prodromus,' and ' Elementa Philosophiae Botanicse,' in 

 which he has attempted to give a logical character to the elements 

 of Natural Science. The mere enumeration of the titles of his works 

 is sufficient to show that his ideas of natural history were not limited 

 to genera and species, nor even to the anatomy and physiology of 

 natural objects, but embraced all their relations in reference to 

 Physical Geography, to Geology, to History and Antiquities, to 

 Man, to Medicine and the Arts, and to Philosophy. He was a 

 member of nearly every Scientific Society in Europe, and has left 

 behind him in all quarters where he was known, the character of a 

 most amiable as well as of a most learned and intellectual man. Two 

 daughters, both married, survive him, but he had no son. His 

 election into the Linnean Society dates from 1827, and he was also 

 a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. 



Gottfried Christian Reich, M.D., Professor of Medicine in the 

 University of Berlin, was born at the Chateau of Kaiserhammer, in 

 the district of Wunsiedel, in the year 1769, took his degree of M.D. 

 at Erlangen, and became in the year 1794 Extraordinary Professor 

 of Medicine in that University. In 1797 he published a ' Mantissa 

 Insectorum,' supplementary to Hoppe's ' Enumeratio Insectorum 

 Elytratorum circa Erlangam Indigenarum,' and afterwards at Niirn- 

 berg, in three volumes, a Gardener's Calendar founded on the En- 

 glish work of Mawe and Abercrombie. On the establishment of 

 the University of Berlin he became first Extraordinary and after- 

 wards Ordinary Professor of Medicine there. He contributed to the 

 * Magazin der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde,' numerous 

 articles on zoological and physiological subjects ; but he has of late 

 years been chiefly known by his medical works and translations, 

 which are both numerous and valuable. He was elected a Foreign 

 Member of the Linnean Society in 1794, and was consequently one 

 of our oldest members. His death took place at Berlin in 1849, at 

 the age of eighty. 



George Wahlenberg, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Botany in 

 the University of Upsal, was born in the year 1784 in the province 



