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moter of science, whose mortal remains were consigned to 

 his unostentatious tomb, at Geneva, in one of the finest 

 evenings of summer, followed by the eloquent and amiable 

 historian, De Sismondi, and by other learned and illustrious 

 men. One may apply to his last moments at Geneva, (where 

 he had arrived only one day before) these lines of his own 

 favourite Herbert: — 



Sweet day, so tool, so calm, so bright, 



The bridal of the earth and sky, 

 Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night, 



For thou must die!* 



Samuel Gilbert's portrait is prefixed to his " Florist's 

 Vade Mecum;" 12mo. In his "Gardener's Almanack," is a 

 particular description of the roses cultivated in the English 

 gardens at that period. He was the author of " Fons Sani- 

 tatis, or the Healing Spring at Willowbridge Wells." He 

 was son-in-law to John Rea, the author of Flora, and who 

 planned the gardens at Gerard's Bromley. Willowbridge 

 Wells are at a little distance from where these once superb 

 gardens were. 



* I will merely give this brief extract as one out of many of great force 

 and beauty, from bis Sahnonia : — " If we look with wonder upon the great 

 remains of human works, such as the columns of Palmyra, broken in the 

 midst of the desert, the temples of Pa?stum, beautiful in the decay of twenty 

 centuries, or the mutilated fragments of Greek sculpture in the Acropolis of 

 Athens, or in our own Museum, as proofs of the genius of artists, and power 

 and riches of nations now past away, with how much deeper feeling of admi- 

 ration must we consider those grand monuments of nature, which mark the 

 revolutions of the globe; continents broken into islands; one land produced, 

 another destroyed; the bottom of the ocean become a fertile soil; whole races 

 of animals extinct; and the bones and exuvia? of one class covered with the 

 remains of another, and upon the graves of past generations — the marble or 

 rocky tomb, as it were, of a former animated world — new generations rising, 

 and order and harmony established, and a system of life and beauty pro- 



