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Miscellanies. Q15 
“In his last moments he was tranquil and “ perfectly content to 
close his career.” Exhibiting and expressing the firmness of his 
faith, and his full trust and confidenee in the redeeming effects of the 
sufferings and merits of Christ, he had his domestics assembled 
around him to witness the serenity with which he was enabled to 
contemplate the certain approach of death. It is no exaggerated 
portraiture of Dr, Turner’s character to say, in a few words, that he 
afforded an extraordinary instance of the combination of the best 
and highest qualities, most accurate perception, enlarged intelligence, 
active benevolence, unaffected piety, universal charity.” 
Persoon.—The learned botanist of the Cape of Good Hope, M. 
Persoon, is now no more; he died at Paris at a very advanced age, 
having lived there since he enjoyed a pension from his government, 
which was granted to him on giving up his Herbarium to the Museum 
at Leyden. His works on Cryptogamea are excellent; and his En- 
chiridium Botanicum is one of the most useful works of its kind which 
has yet been published.— Atheneum, Feb. 18, 1837. 
Mr. Richard Cunningham, the able botanist, who was connected 
with an expedition in New South Wales, was cruelly murdered by a 
band of savages, into whose hands he was so unfortunate as to fall, 
somewhere near the end of April, 1835. Loudon’s Gardener’s 
Magazine, contains a thrilling and interesting letter from his afflicted 
brother, which we have not room to copy. From this letter, we 
learn that he by accident, became separated from his companions, 
and after wandering some days, fell in with the savages before men- 
tioned, who gave him food and allowed him to encamp with them for 
the night; that their suspicions were aroused by Mr. C.’s rising re- 
peatedly in the course of the night, and walking about the encamp- 
ment; and fearing lest* it was his intention to betray them into the 
hands of some of their enemies, in the neighborhood, they determined, 
after consultation, to kill him, which they did by rushing on him with 
their spears. He had just completed his forty second year. 
We announce with much regret the death of Mr. Edward Turner 
Bennet, Secretary to the Zoological Society, who died on Sunday, 
2ist August, after a short illness. By his decease the society has 
lost one of its most efficient oftice-bearers, and one whose province it 
was to detail the interesting additions which were acquired to the 
mammalia of the collection. In this department he ranked deser- 
vedly high; perhaps, so far as Britain is concerned, higher than any 
