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procuring a pension for him, which at first was refused ; 

 and it was not until the se\^nth Earl of Carlisle used his 

 influence that he was granted in 1865, by Lord Palmer- 

 ston, a pension of £50 a year. In 1877, through Mr. 

 Markham's further entreaties, he secured for his fellow- 

 pioneer " of the greatest achievement of this century in 

 the domain of practical economic culture of medicinal 

 plants" a further pension of £50 from the Indian Govern- 

 ment. These sums, awarded for past services, may be said 

 to have afterwards been used as " endowment of research," 

 for, except when prevented by illness, the recipient was 

 altogether engaged in purely unremunerative scientific 

 work up to the time of his last short illness. 



Many years ago he was in communication with Mr. 

 John Murray with respect to an account of his travels, 

 part of which is in manuscript, but incomplete. It was 

 his intention also to supplement his " Hepatic?e AmazonicaB 

 et Andinae " with another work on geographical distribution 

 and other matters, which would have been as large as its 

 predecessor. This is about half done. 



Having had the honour and privilege of being on terms 



of intimate friendship with Dr. Spruce for over a quarter 



of a century, I may be allowed to offer a few observations 



of a more personal nature. The treatment of his friends 



carried out the advice he gave to others, in the words of 



old Polonius : — 



" The friends thou hast and their adoption tried. 

 Grapple them to thy heart with hooks of steel." 



. When young he was tall and spare, with dark hair. In 

 his latter days his beard and hair were grey, the latter 

 rather long. In his room everything was in the strictest 

 order, and Mr. A. E. Wallace, who met with him and 

 remained with him for some time in the basin of the 

 Amazon, remarks that be was equally orderly when he was 

 exploring the virgin forests of that district. He was also 

 one of the most methodical of men. In his botanical work 

 he seems to have thought that if anything was worth 

 noticing it was worth recording. He seems never to have 

 examined and noticed anything without making a note of 

 it, and in his later years he would readily turn to notes, 

 all carefully numbered, on plants which he had made in 



