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ever-busy and well-spent life, during which he was incessantly- 

 occupied for others rather than for himself; and with anecdotes of 

 his noble quaKties of head and heart. We can only allude to his 

 efforts, not completely successful until near the close of his life, 

 to establish in Cambridge the scientific tripos and degrees in 

 science, and to develop the University Herbarium and Botanical 

 Garden, with their Library and Museum, to which he for 30 years 

 very largely contributed from his private means, and to which he 

 gave all his own botanical collections. To the University his loss 

 is as disastrous as it is irreparable ; whether as a member con- 

 spicuous for his varied accomplishments and genial nature, or as a 

 teacher, and most especially as not only the best, but the only 

 man altogether qualified to direct the scientific, educational, and 

 practical arrangement of its new museum. 



" During the last few years of Professor Henslow's life his health 

 had become seriously impaired ; incessant mental and manual la- 

 bour, habitually protracted beyond midnight, and the want of pro- 

 portionate daily exercise, gradually undermined his once robust 

 constitution ; though he was always abstemious and temperate in 

 every respect. About five years ago he complained of consider- 

 able derangement of lungs or heart, which was attributed by his 

 medical attendants to defective digestion. In March of the pre- 

 sent year, though feeling far from well, he left home to pay some 

 visits in the south of England, where he caught a violent cold, 

 which was followed by bronchitis and congestion of the lungs and 

 liver, which alarmingly aggravated his heart symptoms. He re- 

 turned to Hitcham on the 24th, when he rapidly grew worse, and 

 was soon confined to a bed of protracted sufiering, which he never 

 quitted till his death on the 16tE of May. 



" Professor Henslow desired to be interred in the churchyard at 

 Hitcham, and that his funeral should be of the simplest descrip- 

 tion, and none but his parishioners employed ; his wishes were 

 strictly attended to, but a considerable concourse of strangers 

 found their way to that remote village, and, together with a, depu- 

 tation from the town and corporation of Ipswich, paid their un- 

 obtrusive tribute to the memory of one whose rule of life was the 

 motto of his family — ' Quod videris esto.' " 



Thcmias Sohlyn, Esq., F.B.S. and 3I.JR.I.A., was late Chief Clerk 

 in Her Ma^jesty's Treasury. He died on the 6th of August, 1860, 

 in his 83rd year, having been a Pellow of the Linnean Society 

 since the 4th of March, 1823. 



Edwat'd F. Kelaart, M.D., F. G.S., was a native of Ceylon, of what 



