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a botanical assistant. At Constantinople he was 
joined by his friend Mr. Hawkins. They made an 
excursion into Bithynia, and climbed to the summit 
of Olympus. Taygetus, the highest mountain of 
the Morea, and almost rivalling Parnassus, was as- 
cended by these adventurous travellers. But Dr. 
Sibthorp’s impaired health made it essential to him 
to return to his native country in the autumn of 
1795. His few succeeding months were marked 
by the progress of an unconquerable disease ; and 
he died at Bath, February the 8th 1796, in the 
38th year of his age. 
“The only work which Professor John Sibthorp 
published in his lifetime is a Alora Oxoniensis, in 
one volume octavo, printed in 1794. 
“We have now to record the posthumous benefits 
which Dr. Sibthorp has rendered to his beloved 
science, and which are sufficient torank himamongst 
its most illustrious patrons. 
“ By his will, dated January the 12th, 1796, he 
gives a freehold estate in Oxfordshire to the Uni- 
versity of Oxford, for the purpose of first publish- 
ing his Flora Greca, in ten folio volumes, with a 
hundred coloured plates in each ; and a Prodromus 
of the same work, in octavo, without plates. 
‘His executors, the Honourable Thomas Wen- 
man, John Hawkins, and Thomas Platt, Esquires, 
were to appoint a sufficiently competent Editor of 
these works, to whom the manuscripts, drawings, 
and specimens were to be confided. They fixed 
upon the writer of the present article. The plan 
of the Prodromus was drawn out by Dr. Sibthorp ; 
