lilNNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. XXXIX 



linson, arranged alphabetically according to their modern names, 

 from the Catalogue of his Garden and other Manuscripts,' which 

 forms a useful commentary on the state of English gardens in the 

 middle of the last century. It was of course with no small deHght 

 that Mr. Dillwyn welcomed the meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation at Swansea in 1848. As one of the Vice-Presidents of 

 the Meeting, and President of the Section of Zoology and Natural 

 History, he took a warm interest and an active part in all the 

 discussions that arose ; and at his residence of Sketty HaU, to 

 wliich he had some years previoiasly removed, he received ^ith 

 •hospitable welcome several of the most distinguished members of 

 the Association. To celebrate the occasion, he dedicated to Lord 

 Northampton and the Council a work ' On the Flora and Fauna 

 of Swansea,' which issued from the local press on the first day of 

 the Meeting, and was received by the members as a pleasing con- 

 tribution to their local information. 



This was the last of liis publications : his health gradually gave 

 way, and for several years before his death he had ceased to 

 mingle in the busy world, or to take any active interest in its 

 affairs. He died on the 31st of August last, at Sketty HaU, at 

 the age of 77, leaving two sons (both FeUows of our Society, 

 and both distinguished cultivators of natural history) and two 

 daughtei's. IVIr. Dillwyn was thoroughly honourable and upright 

 in all his dealings, a steady man of business, a liberal and active 

 country gentleman, a warm friend, and a zealous and enlightened 

 cx>ntributor to natural science. AVith his contemporary natural- 

 ists, and especially with Sir James Smith, Mr. Dawson Turner, 

 Mr. Edward Forster, Mr. Borrer, Mr. Woods and Mr. Brown, he 

 was on terms of affectionate intimacy ; and those of a later gene- 

 ration looked up to him with feelings of gratefid res^^ect. He 

 became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1800, and of the Royal 

 Society in 1804 ; and this Society may fairly regard it as a subject 

 of cordial congratulation to have retained for five-and-fifty years 

 the fellowship of so valuable a member and so estimable a man. 



George Don, Esq., was born at Forfar, on the 17th of May 

 1798. He was the eldest son of the zealous British botanist ot 

 the same name, well kno^^Ti as the discoverer of many of the most 

 interesting plants of the Scottish Highlands, and a constant cor- 

 respondent of the late Sir James Edward Smith, who in liis 

 ' English Flora ' (under Bosa Donianct) speaks of him as " one of 

 the most indefatigable, as well as acciu-ate of botanists ; who loved 

 the science for its own sake, and braved everv difficultv in its ser- 



