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himself to scientific pursuits, and more especially to botany. He 

 soon became distinguished for his scientific knowledge and un- 

 tiring industry, and in 1847 undertook the duties of Lecturer in 

 Botany in the Medical School of St. George's Hospital, which he 

 relinquished on becoming the successor of his distinguished friend 

 Edward Forbes in the Botanical Chair at King's College — a post 

 which he occupied up to the time of his death. He was also 

 appointed Examiner in Natural History to the Eoyal Military 

 Academy and to the Society of Arts. 



Manfully contending with his constitutional infirmity, and 

 with the frequent recurrence of a distressing complaint, Professor 

 Henfrey nevertheless laboured incessantly and devotedly in the 

 cause of science. Though continually engaged in original and 

 minute research, in the department more especially of physiolo- 

 gical botany, he yet found time to aid in many other ways the 

 advance and difi'usion of knowledge. Besides several systematic 

 works, he contributed numerous papers, original and translated, 

 to different scientific journals, in addition to the valuable Me- 

 moirs which have appeared from his pen in our own publications 

 and in those of the Eoyal Society. In 1849 he established the 

 ' Botanical Gazette,' a valuable scientific publication, which he 

 supported, I believe at his own risk, with zeal and perseverance, 

 for two or three years, when, finding that, like almost all strictly 

 scientific periodicals in this country (to our shame be it spoken), 

 it could be carried on only at a loss, he was reluctantly compelled 

 to discontinue it. He was also a1; one time Editor of the ' Photo- 

 graphic Journal ' — a post which must have entailed considerable 

 trouble, and made many demands upon his indefatigable industry. 

 The numerous and highly valuable botanical articles in the 

 * Micrographic Dictionary ' were contributed by him ; and a 

 second edition of this work had but just passed under his revision 

 shortly before his death. His last and most important work was 

 an ' Elementary Course of Botany,' which was published in 1857. 



But this brief and imperfect abstract of Arthur Henfrey's scien- 

 tific labours is but a small part of the tribute due to his memory. 

 High as the scientific position he occupied was, and higher as it 

 undoubtedly would have become had his useful life been prolonged, 

 his worth as a man is not to be measured by this standard alone. 

 To those, and they are many, who were more intimately acquainted 

 with him, his memory will be endeared by the warm remembrance 

 of his kindly and affectionate disposition, his genial manners, and 

 his eagerness at all times to oblige and assist. 



