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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 qualities 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 suffering, which he never 
quitted till his death on the 16th 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.’ ”’ 
Thomas Hoblyn, Esq., F.R.S. and M.R.L.A., was late Chief Clerk 
in Her Majesty’s Treasury. He died on the 6th of August, 1860, 
in his 88rd year, having been a Fellow of the Linnean Society 
since the 4th of March, 1823. 
Edward F. Kelaart, M.D., F.G.S., was a native of Ceylon, of what 
