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Harriet, daughter of Sir Francis Baring, Bart., was a member of 

 Christchurch, Oxford, where he graduated, B.A. in 1818, and M.A. 

 in 1821. In 1819 he became M.P. for Guildford, and in successive 

 Parliaments represented that town, Wareham, Weymouth and Salis- 

 bury. He was possessed of much good sense and sound practical 

 views, and took great interest in all subjects connected with art. 

 For many years he was a Director of the British Institution, and 

 he was generally placed on all committees of the House of Commons 

 in which the interests of art were concerned. He became a Fellow 

 of the Royal Society in 1830, and of the Linnean Society in 1831 ; 

 and died at his family-seat, Norman-Court, near Stockbridge, Hants, 

 on the 14th of October last, at the age of 58. 



Nathaniel Wallich, Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy, F.R.S. 

 Lond. and Edinb., and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Linnean 

 Society, was born at Copenhagen on the 28th of January 1786. 

 He commenced his botanical studies under the direction of Pro- 

 fessor Vahl, and went to India in the year 1807, at the age of 

 one-and- twenty, in the capacity of surgeon to the Danish settle- 

 ment at Serampore. Immediately on his arrival in Bengal he be- 

 came acquainted with Dr. Roxburgh, then Superintendent of the 

 Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta, by whose friendship he 

 continued to benefit until 1812, when the state of his health 

 obliged him to proceed to the Mauritius. About a year after his 

 return to India from this excursion, he received a commission in 

 the medical service of the East India Company; and on the de- 

 parture for England of Dr. Buchanan Hamilton, in the beginning 

 of 1815, he was nominated to the temporary charge of the Calcutta 

 Garden, which appointment was subsequently permanently confirmed 

 on the recommendations of Dr. Fleming, Mr. Colebrooke and Sir 

 Joseph Banks. At this time the Botanic Garden had been in 

 existence nearly thirty years ; during which period, by the combined 

 exertions of Colonel Kyd, its founder, and of Dr. Roxburgh, it had 

 become one of the finest establishments of the kind in existence ; and 

 the unwearied energy of Dr. Wallich during the thirteen years that 

 elapsed before his first return to Europe, not only added enormously 

 to the extent of its collections, both living and preserved, but enabled 

 it to transmit to Europe and America, for distribution among all 

 the more important public and private gardens, a vast and quite un- 

 precedented amount of plants and seeds. In 1820, Dr. Carey com- 

 menced at Serampore the publication of Dr. Roxburgh's manuscript 

 ' Flora Indica,' and to this volume, as well as to a second, which 

 succeeded it in 1824, Dr. Wallich contributed numerous " Descrip- 



