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country. He died at his house, Nutgrove, near Wigan, in Lanca- 

 shire, on the 10th September, 1859, at the age of 73. 



" Through his love of study," observes his friend Elias Durand, 

 from whose memoir of Mr. !Xuttall most of the above particulars 

 have been taken, " firmness of mind, and devotion to the natural 

 sciences, Mr. Nuttall raised himself from the condition of a mere 

 artisan to the exalted position of a highly scientific man. No 

 other explorer of the botany of North America has, personally, 

 made more discoveries ; no writer on American plants, except 

 perhaps Professor Asa Gray, has described more genera or 

 species." 



Professor Anders Olof Betzius, M.D., was born at Lund on the 

 3rd October, 1796. Having studied medicine in London and Co- 

 penhagen, he entered in 1820 the Veterinary Institution at Stock- 

 holm, where he became Professor in 1823. In the follo^-iug year 

 he was commissioned by the Swedish Grovernment to investigate 

 the natxire of a contagious epizootic disease, which had destroyed 

 a great number of horses in tlie district of Kopparberg, and, if 

 possible, to dcAase means to arrest it. In 1834, Professor Eetzius 

 was appointed Professor of Anatomy in the Caroline Institute ; 

 and in 1839 to the same chair in the Academie des Beaux Arts. 

 On various occasions he visited Germany, Prance, and England. 

 Wherever kno^^Ti, his simple manners and kindly disposition 

 rendered him as much beloved as he was esteemed for his great 

 scientific acquirements and eminent position. 



In his own country his merits were equally appreciated by the 

 Government, In 1836 he was made a Kni ght of the Polar Star, 

 and he was also a member of the order of Dannebrog. 



He was an associate of nearly every medical and scientific society 

 in Europe and America, and was elected a Foreign Member of 

 this Society in 1852. In 1844-5 he was President of the Academy 

 of Sciences of Sweden, which body he had previously represented 

 in the Diet. 



Prof. Eetzius' writings are very numerous, consisting, however, 

 for the most part of scattered memoirs on various subjects relating 

 to medicine and the veterinary art, but more especially to human 

 and comparative Anatomy, Natural History, and Ethnography, 

 chiefiy as illustrated by the varieties of the human cranium, and 

 in his branch of science his contributions have been most import- 

 ant and interesting. 



JoTin Drew Salmon, ^sq., enjoyed considerable distinction as a 

 British Botanist and Ornithologist. He was admitted a Fellow 



