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(line 42) must be erased from the list : the mistake arose from an imperfect specimen 

 of a gi'ass from Alum Bay having been compared by a friend with continental speci- 

 mens of Poa bulbosa, in its viviparous state. The Alum Bay plant was afterwards 

 found to be an Agroslis. To the plants growing in salt marshes at Yarmouth, add 

 Triglochin maritimum and Potamogeton pectinatum. To those of the New Forest 

 add Triglochin palustre. — J. S.MilL; Kensington, December 20, 1841. 



98. Erratum. (Phytol. Ill), line 19, for Entomol. iVo. 90, read Entomol. j9«^e 159. 



99. Death oj Professor Don, It is our painful duty to announce to our readers the 

 loss which Botany has sustained in the death of our esteemed and lamented friend, — 

 Mr. David Don. His merits as a botanist are abundantly testified by his numerous 

 papers and essays published in periodicals or transactions during the last twenty years, 

 his worth as a man requires a more particular notice. It has never been our lot to 

 meet with a botanist equally able and willing to afford information to the student: 

 his bibliographical knowledge was most extensive ; so much so indeed, that on the 

 name of an author being mentioned to him, he would instantly inform the enquirer of 

 all the works written by that author, of the value of their authority, their dates, prin- 

 cipal contents, and the library in which they might be found ; and the slightest en- 

 quiry would immediately elicit a detailed statement of every serviceable fact relative 

 to the subject suggesting it. Nothing could exceed the prompt and cheerful manner 

 with which he entered into all debateable questions relating to botanical nomencla- 

 ture, or his rigid impartiality in asserting the right of priority : nothing could exceed 

 the kindness and zeal with which he assisted every student, however complicated or 

 however trite the subject laid before him. Indeed we may safely say, that in him the 

 botanical enquirer has suffered a loss never to be repaired. — 



" We ne'er shall look upon his like again." 



Mr. Don was born at Forfar on the 21st of December, 1779 ; and his descriptions 

 of new and rare native plants found by his father in Scotland, proves Mr. Don's early 

 proficiency in the study of Botany. He came to London in 1819, and in 1822 was 

 elected librarian to the Linnean Society, an appointment which he held during the 

 remainder of his life. In 1836 he was appointed Professor of Botany at King's Col- 

 lege, and commenced his first course of lectures in the May of the same year. He 

 died at the house of the Linnean Society, at 1 o'clock in the morning of the 8th of 

 December, 1841, after a painful and lingering illness of upwards of twelve months, 

 and was buried on the 15th at the Kensale Green Cemetery. In addition to the im- 

 mediate relatives of the deceased, the funeral was attended by Dr. Brown, Sir W. J. 

 Hooker, Messrs. Bowman, Forster, Bentham, Bennett, Anderson and Smith. 



We insert below a chronological list of Mr. Don's works, so far as we have been 

 able to ascertain them. 



Descriptions of new or rare native plants found in Scotland by the late Mr. George 

 Don, of Forfar. Printed in the Wemerian Memoirs, iii. 1821. 



Descriptions of new plants from Nepaul, in the herbarium of A. B.Lambert, Esq. 

 Wern. Mem. iii. 1821. 



Monograph of the genus Saxifraga. Linnean Transactions, xiii. 1823. 



Illustrations of the natural family of plants called Melastomaceae. W. Mem. iv. 1823. 



Monograph of the genus Pyrola. Id. v. part 1. 1824. 



Descriptions of nine new species of Carex from Nepaul. Lin, Tr. xiv. pt. 2. „ 



Description of Cowania, a new genus of plants ; and of a new species of Sieversia. 

 Id. xiv. pt. 3. 1825. 



