i)assagc0 in the 3Cifc of John -Sibthoip. 



HIS eminent botanist and traveller was the 

 son of Dr Humphrey Sibthorp. Professor 

 of Botany at Oxford, and was born in that 

 city in 1758. Being brought up to the 

 medical profession, he prosecuted his studies at 

 Edinburgh, where the taste he had early imbibed 

 for natural history, especially botany, was culti- 

 vated and increased. At the close of his academical 

 course he visited France and Switzerland, and 

 spent a considerable time at Montpellier, where he 

 communicated to the Academy des Sciences of 

 that town an account of his numerous botanical 

 discoveries in the neighbourhood, and was enrolled 

 a member of that society. 



Having conceived the desire of visiting Greece 

 for the purpose of botanical investigation, he passed 

 part of the year 1784 at Gottingen, and afterwards 

 made the tour of Germany. Proceeding to Vienna, 

 he cultivated the friendship of the principal pro- 

 fessors of his favourite science there, studied with 



