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butes to that happiness: for in a solitary walk, in a 

 journey, or in the absence of those with whom we 

 can converse, objects are constantly occurring to 

 interest or amuse. Thus botany has sources of en- 

 joyment similar to those so well described by Cicero 

 when speaking of the happiness arising from the 

 study of letters. ' Hsec studia adolescentiam agunt, 

 senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis 

 perfugium ac solatium prsebent, delectant domi, 

 peregrinantur^rustwanUir^ 



" It is a noble and delightful office of the man of 

 science to spread around him the happiness of 

 knowledge, and to put into the power of others the 

 gratifications which science can so liberally afford. 

 But this is a power not granted to all who are in 

 possession of knowledge ; for the communication 

 and the possession of wisdom are by no means al- 

 ways united ; and surely the value of any man's 

 knowledge is to be estimated very much according 

 to the happiness he diffuses around him. The cha- 

 racter of the late illustrious President of the Lin- 

 naean Society will thus live in connexion with science 

 and its pleasures, and his name be repeated with 

 gratitude by thousands, who will consider him as a 

 benefactor, for having given them habits of obser- 

 vation and attention to the natural objects around 

 them, by which their sources of enjoyment were 

 multiplied and pleasures made to spring up at every 

 step." 



" To his extensive botanical acquirements," ob- 

 serves Professor Hooker, " he added the high at- 

 tainments of an elegant scholar, and a talent of 



