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most sincere affection ; for Mr. Gardner possessed in a rare degree 
the faculty of making friends in every direction. The cheerfulness of 
his disposition, his never-tiring energy, the variety and extent of his 
acquirements, his desire to impart information wherever required, his 
vivacity and pleasing conversational powers, secured him wherever 
he went the esteem and friendship of all well-informed persons. 
Thus has been suddenly cut off in the prime of his life one of the 
most active of the practical botanists of the day. It is much to 
be desired that the work which he has advanced so far towards 
completion may not be lost to science, and that a successor may be 
found fully competent to arrange the large mass of materials already 
accumulated ; and in carrying out this object, it is to be hoped, the 
merit which belongs to this deserving botanist will be recorded to 
the full extent of his due. Independently of the labours already 
noticed, Mr. Gardner had just completed for publication a ‘ Ma- 
nual of Indian Botany ;’ an elementary work of that nature having 
been long a great desideratum to the numerous students of botanical 
science in India. In addition to his contributions before mentioned, 
he published in the ‘ Calcutta Journal of Natural History,’ several 
interesting memoirs, viz. on the Cyrtandracee of Ceylon, on Anstru- 
theria, Sarcandra, &c., Carria, Dysodidendron, Leucocodon, and on 
Christisonia, &c., together with a valuable paper on the Podoste- 
macee of the island and of Southern India, to which he added 
descriptions of the plants of this order met with during his travels in 
Brazil. 
William Gordon, Esq., M.D. 
William Horton Lloyd, Esq., well known to us all as one of the 
most constant attendants on our Meetings, and for his liberal feel- 
ings and kindliness of disposition, was born at Chapel-Allerton in the 
neighbourhood of Leeds in the year 1784. His family, although not 
boasting any great descent, were very respectable manufacturers in 
Manchester. He was himself destined for the bar, and studied the 
law for a considerable time; but conscientious scruples with regard 
to the oath induced him to relinquish his idea of adopting the legal 
profession, and he devoted himself to the cultivation of his taste for 
natural science and antiquities, for which he had a stiong pre- 
dilection. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1807, and 
was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and one of the earliest 
Members of the Zoological Society, of the Horticultural Society, of 
the British Association, and of several other scientific and literary 
institutions. For the Linnzan Society in particular he always en- 
tertained the warmest regard ; and although he never published any- 
thing, he constantly took a deep interest in the progress of science. 
He died at his house in Park Square on the 18th of February in the 
present year, having suffered for a year or two previously several 
slight paralytic attacks, but retaining his faculties little impaired 
almost to the last. 
Alexander MacLeay, Esq., for more than a quarter of a century 
Secretary to this Society, was born in the county of Ross on the 
24th of June 1767. His father, who was Provost of the town of 
