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Mr. Knight's portrait, painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 

 is preserved at Downton Castle, near Ludlow; and is en- 

 graved among Cadell's Contemporary Portraits. It is also 

 engraved by Bromley, from the same painter. Another por- 

 trait was in the library of the late Mr. Johnes, at Havod. 



Dr. Andrew Duncan. He died at Edinburgh in June 

 1828, at the great age of eighty-four. His portrait was 

 drawn by Raiburn, and engraved by Mitchell. He was a 

 contemporary of several eminent persons, whose society and 

 friendship formed one of the chief pleasures of his life. 

 There was scarcely an institution proposed for the benefit of 

 his native city, Edinburgh, to which his name will not be 

 found a contributor. He was, in fact, the patron and bene- 

 factor of all public charities. In 1809 he projected, and by 

 his exertions, succeeded in establishing, the Horticultural 

 Society of Edinburgh. His animated and scientific dis- 

 courses, delivered at the meetings of the Caledonian Horti- 

 cultural Society, will always be perused with eager pleasure 

 by every horticulturist. In that delivered in December, 

 1814, and inserted in the fifth number of their Memoirs, 

 this zealous well-wisher of his native city, thus exults : — 

 " I am now, gentlemen, past the seventieth year of my age, 

 and I have been a steady admirer both of Flora and Pomo- 

 na from the very earliest period of my youth. During a 

 pretty long life, it has been my lot to have had opportunities 

 of visiting gardens in three different cpiarters of the globe, 

 in Europe, in Asia, and in Africa; and from what I have 

 seen, I am decidedly of opinion, that at the present day, 

 there is not a large city in the world, which enjoys a supply 

 of vegetable food in more abundance, in greater variety, or 

 in higher excellence, than the city of Edinburgh. From 

 the potatoe to the pine-apple, — from the most useful to the 

 most delicious productions of the vegetable kingdom, we are 

 not at present outdone, as far as my observation goes, by 



