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of all whom natural-history pursuits led to visit the metropolis of 

 Scotland, his doors being always hospitably open to strangers as 

 well as residents, and his liberality leading him to take an active 

 and generous interest in the struggles of rising merit. No one has 

 probably contributed so much to improve the education and to pro- 

 mote the welfare of that race of practical gardeners, of whom Scot- 

 land may so justly boast. Until within a short time of his death he 

 continued to take an active interest in his favourite pursuits, but he 

 had for some years past felt the infirmities of age creeping upon 

 him, and an attack of paralysis, under which he suffered for some 

 months, gradually brought on his death, which took place on the 

 5th of September last, in the 75th year of his age. He became a 

 Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1813 ; and was some years since 

 elected by the University of Edinburgh to the Honorary Degree of 

 LL.D. He died unmarried, and after providing for his relations has 

 bequeathed considerable legacies to various literary and scientific 

 institutions in Edinburgh. Among his numerous memoirs on sub- 

 jects of natural history the following deserve especial mention : 

 " An Account of a Fin- Whale," and " A List of the Fishes found in 

 the Frith of Forth and in Rivers and Lakes near Edinburgh," both 

 in the 6th vol. of the Wernerian Society's Transactions ; "Proofs 

 that the Beaver was formerly a native of Scotland, including an 

 Account of some Fossil Remains of that Animal found in Perthshire 

 and Berwickshire," in the 1st vol. of the ' Edinburgh Philosophical 

 Journal' ; " An Account of the Ayrshire Rose," in the 2nd volume 

 of the same periodical ; and Observations " On Planting Fruit-trees 

 on a North Border," in the 1st volume of the Transactions of the 

 Caledonian Horticultural Society. 



The Rev. Jelinger Symons, M.A., was derived from an ancient 

 Norman family, originally settled in Cornwall, and born at Low 

 Lay ton, in the county of Essex, in the year 1778. He graduated 

 at St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1797, and soon afterwards took 

 holy orders, first officiating as Curate to his father, then Rector of 

 Whitburn, in the county of Durham. In 1805 he man-ied, and took 

 the curacy of West Ilsley, in the county of Bucks ; and was after- 

 wards presented by the Dean and Canons of Windsor to the endowed 

 vicarage of Monkland, Hereford, of which county he became an 

 active magistrate. In 1821, his health requiring change of air, he 

 visited Boulogne, and officiated as Chaplain to the British residents. 

 Having been presented by Lord Chancellor Brougham in 1833 to 

 the rectory of Radnage, Bucks, he made that village his place of 



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