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communicated to his numerous friends, may justify at least a passing 

 allusion. It records a melancholy chapter in an otherwise uneventful 

 life to which men of letters might have looked with respectful envy. 

 It pleased Divine Providence to try this wise and blameless man with 

 almost unexampled domestic affliction. He married an excellent 

 lady, the daughter of Sir Abraham Elton. Of many children, four 

 only, two sons and two daughters, grew up to mature age. The eldest 

 son was one whom such a father (for Mr. Hallam, with not much 

 outward show, was a man of the deepest and most tender aifections) 

 could look upon with pride, with love, and with hope allotted to few 

 distinguished men. What was the promise of Arthur Hallam may 

 be known from the volume of his ' Remains/ printed by his father ; 

 what he was in disposition as well as in mind, from the exquisite 

 'In Memoriam' of Mr. Tennyson. The blow which bereft Mr. 

 Hallam of this son was frightfully sudden. His eldest daughter and 

 his wife followed the first-born to the grave. One son remained ; he 

 too, if of less originally speculative and poetic temperament than the 

 elder, with great acquirements and endowments, was gifted also with 

 a gentleness and tenderness of disposition, singularly fitted to be the 

 consolation, the surviving hope of such a father. He too was carried 

 off with almost equal suddenness. One daughter remains, married 

 to Colonel Farnaby Cator, and has children. Bowed but not 

 broken by these sorrows, Mr. Hallam preserved his vigorous faculties 

 to the last, and closed his long and honoured life in calm Christian 

 peace. 



ARTHUR HENFREY was born at Aberdeen, of English parents, 

 on the 1st of November, 1819. He studied medicine at St. Bartho- 

 lomew's Hospital, and in 1843 became a Member of the College of 

 Surgeons, but delicate health prevented him from engaging in the 

 practice of his profession. Accordingly, having a taste for botany, 

 and having already attained to great proficiency in that science, he 

 thenceforth devoted himself exclusively to its pursuit* and soon 

 acquired a distinguished position among English Botanists. In 

 1847 he was appointed Lecturer on Botany at St. George's Hospital, 

 and in J854 succeeded the late Professor Edward Forbes in the 

 Botanical Chair at King's College ; he was also Examiner in Natural 

 History to the Royal Military Academy and the Society of Arts. 



