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1828 to 1837, when he turned to politics in the hope of advancing 

 education, and was for some time member for Ipswich. Late 

 in 1847 he was appointed Governor of the Falkland Islands, where 

 his administration was successful. Returning to England in i855 r 

 he died in London on March 22nd, 1860. 



DR. NATHANIEL WALLICH was a Dane, born on Jan. 28th, 1786,, 

 at Copenhagen, where he took the degree of M.D., and in 1807 

 went as surgeon to Serampore, then belonging to his country. But 

 when it was transferred to England, he entered our service, and 

 soon became an active discoverer and collector of new plants and 

 a contributor to the Flora Indica. He was sent in 1820 to explore 

 Nepal, and published the results. In 1825 he inspected the forests 

 of Western Hindostan, and in the next two years those of Ava and 

 Lower Burma. Invalided to England in 1828, he brought with 

 him about 8000 specimens, and distributed the duplicates among 

 important herbaria. The results of his labour appeared, 1830-32, 

 as three handsome volumes, with figures, on Unpublished East 

 Indian Plants. He was elected F.R.S. in 1829, and, after another 

 period of service in India, returned to England in 1847, settled 

 in London, went on working out his specimens, and died in 

 Bloomsbury, April 28th, 1854. 



PROFESSOR JOSEPH HENRY GREEN, noted for his skill in surgical 

 operations, especially lithotomy, was the son of a city merchant, 

 born at London Wall, Nov. ist, 1791. Apprenticed to an uncle, 

 after three years' study in Germany, he passed the College of Surgeons 

 at the close of 1815, and began to practise near Lincoln's Inn. 

 Already connected with St. Thomas' Hospital, he gave instruction 

 there, and in 1820 was appointed surgeon. In 1824 he became 

 Professor of Anatomy at the College of Surgeons and to the Royal 

 Academy in the following year (also that of his election as F.R.S. ). 

 Finally he became Professor of Surgery at King's College. But 

 besides this he was a student of philosophy, who had gone, even 

 in 1817, to Berlin to attend lectures on that subject, and an 

 early acquaintance with S. T. Coleridge ripened into such friendship 

 that he was left in 1834 literary executor to the latter. In the same 

 year Green's father died, bequeathing him a large fortune, which 

 enabled him to give up private practice, though he continued to 

 write papers and addresses. In the later part of his life he lived 

 at Hadley, near Barnet, where he died oi gout on Dec. T3th, 1863. 

 He was considered to be a fine operator, an assiduous teacher, a 

 most painstaking student, and a thoughtful, though rather nebulous, 

 writer. 



PROFESSOR JAMES MCCULLAGH was a farmer's son, born at 

 Glenellie, Tyrone, in 1809, who went in 1824 to Trinity College, 

 Dublin, where he obtained a fellowship and was elected Professor 



