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collections. These were subsequently, in 1827, with Mr. Brown's 

 assent, and in conformity with the provisions of Sir Joseph's will, 

 transferred to the British Museum ; and from this latter date to his 

 death, a period of upwards of thirty years, he continued to fill the 

 office of Keeper of the Botanical Collections in the National Esta- 

 blishment. Soon after the death of Sir Joseph Banks he had re- 

 signed the Librarianship of the Linnean Society, of which he then 

 became a Fellow, and having been for many years one of its Vice- 

 Presidents, was at last prevailed upon, in 1849, to allow himself 

 to be elected President. This office he retained till 1853. He be- 

 came a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1811, and was several times 

 elected into the Council. In 1839 he received its highest honour 

 in the Copley Medal, presented to him "for his discoveries during a 

 series of years on the subject of vegetable impregnation." In the 

 meantime honours and titles had flowed in upon him from all 

 quarters ; and nearly every scientific Society both at home and abroad 

 felt itself honoured by enrolling his name in the list of its Members. 

 In 1832, the University of Oxford conferred upon him, in conjunc- 

 tion with Dalton, Faraday, and Brewster, the honorary degree of 

 D.C.L. In the succeeding year he was elected one of the eight 

 Foreign Associates of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of 

 France, his name being selected from a list including those of nine 

 other savans of world-wide reputation, nearly every one of whom 

 has since been elected to the same distinguished honour. During 

 the administration of Sir Robert Peel, he received, in recognition of 

 his great eminence in botanical science, a pension on the Civil List of 

 36200 per annum. The King of Prussia subsequently decorated him 

 with the cross of the highest Prussian Civil Order, " Pour le Merite." 

 Among the more important of his Memoirs above referred to, 

 may be mentioned his Papers on Composites, on Rafflesia, and on 

 the Fecundation of Orchidece and Asclepiadece, in the Linnean Trans- 

 actions ; the botanical appendices to the Voyages or Travels of 

 Tuckey, Parry, Franklin, Abel, King, and Denham ; his Papers on 

 Active Molecules, and on the plurality of Embryos in Coniferce ; and 

 his contributions to Wallich's * Plantae Asiatics,', and to Hors- 

 field's c Plantse Javanicae.' Of his later publications, the most re- 

 markable are his " Botanical Appendix to Captain Sturt's Expe- 

 dition into Central Australia," published in 1849 ; and his Memoir 



