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Hope ; but even under these circumstances of broken health, he still 

 pursued his favourite avocation, and gratified his friends in England 

 by the transmission of a considerable collection of South African 

 plants. Once more he returned to Calcutta, but after a vain struggle 

 against his old enemy, the pestilential climate, he was compelled 

 finally to quit it, and to return to England, where he arrived 

 in 1847. 



In addition to the active duties of his position, which he per- 

 formed with consummate skill ; to his numerous and arduous ex- 

 cursions in almost every part of both the Indian Peninsulas ; to the 

 Herculean labour of amassing, arranging, and naming his immense 

 collections ; to the superintendence of the native artists, employed 

 in the production of a large and important series of botanical draw- 

 ings ; and to the publication of the splendid works alread}'- men- 

 tioned. Dr. Wallich was the author of numerous reports and papers 

 on horticultural and botanical subjects, published in the ' Trans- 

 actions of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta,' the ' Transactions of the 

 Society of Arts,' Sir W. J. Hooker's 'Journal of Botany,' the 

 * Linnean Transactions,' and other scientific collections. Those 

 which appeared in our own ' Transactions ' are two in number, 

 being a " Description of two new Genera of Plants from Nepal 

 (Colquhounia and Hemiphragma).," in the 13th volume, and a "De- 

 scription of a new Genus of Plants belonging to the Order Nym- 

 phceacece {Barclmja)," in the 15th. To our Society he was always 

 most devotedly attached; he became a Fellow in 1818; and in 1849, 

 on the election of Mr. Brown to the Presidency, he became one of 

 its Vice-Presidents. We owe to him not only the munificent gift 

 of the great Indian herbarium, presented at his recommendation by 

 the Court of Directors of the East India Company in 1832, but also 

 a continued succession of benefits and services during the whole 

 period of his connexion with the Society ; and the very last ex- 

 pressions which he addressed to the Secretary, little more than a 

 week before his death, were a request that he would convey "to his 

 dear, good, kind friends of the liinnean Society his most aff^ectionate 

 remembrances." He was a man of warm aff'ections, of ready wit, 

 and of pleasing manners ; a most amusing companion, steady in his 

 attachments, and indefatigable in his exertions for the advancement 

 of his favourite science. He died at his house in Upper Gower- 

 street, on the 28th of April, in the 69th year of his age, and was 

 buried in the cemetery at Kensal Green, on the 3rd of the present 

 month, the President and many other Fellows of the Society paying 

 the tribute of respect due to his memory by attending his remains 

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