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Dillenius, slept for forty years under the auspices of the 

 elder Professor Sibthorp, at least as to the utility of its 

 public foundations. Yet even there the science had many 

 individual cultivators, and if others were forgotten, the 

 name of a Banks ought to render this school for ever ce- 

 lebrated. The younger Professor Sibthorp well atoned 

 for the supineness of his father and predecessor. He 

 published a Flora Oxoniensis, and extended his inquiries 

 into the classical scenes of Greece, finally sacrificing his 

 life to his labours, and sealing his love of this engaging 

 study by a posthumous foundation, which provides for the 

 publication of a sumptuous Flora Grceca, and the subse- 

 quent establishment of a professorship of Rural Economy. 

 Edinburgh, under the auspices of the late worthy Pro- 

 fessor Hope, became distinguished for the cultivation of 

 botany, 'as a branch of medical education. The physi- 

 ology of plants was there taught, more assiduously than 

 in almost any other university of Europe; and the Linnaean 

 principles were ably enforced and illustrated, not with 

 slavish devotion, but with enlightened discrimination. 

 Nor must the dissenting Academy at Warrington be for- 

 gotten, where the distinguished circumnavigator Forster, 

 of whom we have already spoken, was settled. Here 

 many young naturalists were trained. The neighbouring 

 family of the Blackburnes, possessed, even to this day, of 

 one of the oldest and richest botanic gardens in England, 

 have steadily fostered this and other branches of natural 

 knowledge. The same taste has spread to Manchester, 

 Liverpool, and the country around.- Westmoreland, Nor- 

 thumberland, and Durham have their sequestered prac- 

 tical botanists, in every rank of life. Scenes celebrated 

 by the correspondents of Ray are still the favourite haunts 

 of these lovers of nature and science, who every day add 

 something to our information, and to the celebrity of other 

 parts of the same neighbourhood. 



We must now concentrate our attention to the London 

 school, which for about forty years past has maintained a 



