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most sincere atfection ; for Mr. Gardner possessed in a rare degree 

 the faculty of making friends in every direction. The cheerfulness of 

 his disposition, his never-tiring energy, the variety and extent of his 

 acquirements, his desire to impart information wherever required, his 

 vivacity and pleasing conversational powers, secured him wherever 

 he went the esteem and friendship of all well-informed persons. 



Thus has heen suddenly cut off in the prime of his life one of the 

 most active of the practical botanists of the day. It is much to 

 be desired that the work which he has advanced so far towards 

 completion may not be lost to science, and that a successor may be 

 found fully competent to arrange the large mass of materials already 

 accumulated ; and in carrying out this object, it is to be hoped, the 

 merit which belongs to this deserving botanist will be recorded to 

 the full extent of his due. Independently of the labours already 

 noticed, Mr. Gardner had just completed for publication a ' Ma- 

 nual of Tndian Botany ;' an elementary work of that nature having 

 been long a great desideratum to the numerous students of botanical 

 science in India. In addition to his contributions before mentioned, 

 he published in the ' Calcutta Journal of Natural History,' several 

 interesting memoirs, viz. on the Cyrtand^-acece of Ceylon, on Anstru- 

 theria, Sarcandra, &c., Carria, Dysodidendron, Leucocodon, and on 

 Christisonia, &c., together with a valuable paper on the Podoste- 

 macea of the island and of Southern India, to which he added 

 descriptions of the plants of this order met with during his travels in 

 Brazil. 



William Gordon, Esq., M.D. 



William Norton Lloyd, Esq., well known to us all as one of the 

 most constant attendants on our Meetings, and for his liberal feel- 

 ings and kindliness of disposition, was born at Chapel-Allerton in the 

 neighbourhood of Leeds in the yenr 1784. His family, although not 

 boasting any great descent, were very respectable manufacturers in 

 Manchester. He was himself destined for the bar, and studied the 

 law for a considerable time ; but conscientious scruples with regard 

 to the oath induced him to relinquish his idea of adopting the legal 

 profession, and he devoted himself to the cultivation of his taste for 

 natural science and antiquities, for which he had a stiong pre- 

 dilection. He became a Fellow of the Linnaean Society in 1807, and 

 was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and one of the earliest 

 Members of the Zoological Society, of the Horticultural Society, of 

 the British Association, and of several other scientific and literary 

 institutions. For the Linnaean Society in particular he always en- 

 tertained the warmest regard ; and although he never published any- 

 thing, he constantly took a deep interest in the progress of science. 

 He died at his house in Park Square on the 18th of February in the 

 present year, having suffered fur a year or two previously several 

 slight paralytic attacks, but retaining his faculties little impaired 

 almost to the last. 



Alexander MacLeay, Esq., for more than a quarter of a century 

 Secretary to this Society, was born in the county of Ross on the 

 24th of June 1767. His father, who was Provost of the town of 



