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to Scotland. In the early part of 1846 he quitted England with 

 the view of making a tour through some of the Northern Provinces 

 of India, but finding himself on his arrival at Bombay too late in the 

 season for crossing the plains to the Himalaya, he spent the re- 

 mainder of the year in visiting Java and the coast of China, returning 

 by Singapore and Calcutta to Lahore. From this city he made ex- 

 cursions to Cashmere, Little Thibet and Xepaul ; and having joined 

 Capt Richard Strachey, then engaged in a survey of the portions of 

 the Himalaya bordering on Kumaon and Thibet, travelled in his 

 company to the Lakes which form the sources of the Indus and the 

 Sutlej. During this and other journeys the two companions made 

 extensive botanical collections, which they brought with them to 

 England in 1S49 ; and for nearly two years they occupied the same 

 house, engaged in arranging, naming and distributing their joint 

 collections, to which a pecuUar value is attached from the great 

 attention paid to noting the heights at which the several species 

 were found. On his return to his residence at Woodhay in Hamp- 

 shire, Mr. Winterbottom began the formation there of an Arbo- 

 retum, principally of ConifercB. But his active disposition did not 

 allow him long to remain stationary at home. In 185 2 he again 

 visited Ireland ; and at the commencement of 1854 he started for a 

 second visit to Egypt (where he had previously spent some time on 

 his return from India), and ascended the Nile as far as Aboo-Simbul. 

 He subsequently visited nearly every place of interest in Syria, and 

 was on his way in an Austrian steamer from Beyrout to Smyrna, 

 vcixh. the intention of proceeding to Constantinople, when it was 

 found necessan* to put him on shore at Rhodes, on account of a 

 severe attack of diarrhoea, to which he fell a %-ictim on the 4th of 

 July 1854, in the 52nd year of his age. Mr. Winterbottom became 

 a Fellow of the Linnean Society in March 1S30, and of the Geolo- 

 gical Society in the same year : he was also a Member of the Geo- 

 graphical Sooiety, and when in London a frequent attendant at all 

 their Meetings ; he thus became known to manv among us as an 

 amiable man, of a retiring disposition, possessed of a large store of 

 general information, as well as strongly attached to natural science, 

 and in particular imbued with a devoted love of botany and an 

 ardent desire of extending his knowledge by both home and foreign 

 travel. 



Three of our Foreign Members have died during the year. 

 Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer was bora on the 20th of 

 Febraary 17S2, at Halberstadt in the Hartz, where his father was 



