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the University of Edinburgh, and obtained a high age = in the latter for his 
acquirements both in languages and mathematics. In 1821 he was admitted 
a member of the faculty of advocates, but his dislike to ae speaking was so 
great that he is said to have appeared in the gown only thrice. His fondness 
renees, in company with Mr. Bentham, the results of which are recorded in an 
ting narrative in the * Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal’ of 1826-7. 
From Paris he afterwards proceeded to Geneva, where the great herbarium of 
De Candolle furnished him with fresh opportunities of study. At a later 
knowledge of the Russian language. - In 1837 King's College, Aberdeen, con- 
ferred on him the degree of LL.D., and in 1845 he received the appointment 
of Professor of Botany in Glasgow. Of his larger works we may mention the 
* Prodromus Floræ Indis Orientalis, prepared in AA with Dr. Wight ; 
his monograph of the Indian Cyperacew ; his ‘ Botany of Beechey’s Voyage,’ 
and his lebe to the Flora of South Pang, and the Islands of the 
Pacific,’ along with Sir William Hooker; the article “ Botany," in the seventh 
edition of the * "Rocrdopei Britannica ; and the well-known * British Flora 
-of Hooker and Arnott,’ which has s passed through nine d For some 
he was always disinclined to publish. It is, however, fortunate for science that 
he did not keep his knowledge to himself. He was ever ready to communicate 
whatever he observed, and the llous letters which he found time to write 
to his numerous working correspondents, have made these observations gio 
useful in science as if they had bon published. The exact and detail 
labels which are attached to the slides of his immense collection of Diatomacee, 
also permanently record many of his important observations. It is to be hoped 
that this collection will become the property of some public institution where 
it may be accessible to iulii As a professor, he was much respected an xe 
esteemed by all his students; as a botanist, his careful habits of —€— 
and minute accuracy of description, render his works peculiarly v 
