200 DEATH OF SIBTHORP. 



proceeded to Otranto, which he reached after a 

 long and uncomfortable passage of twenty-four 

 days, during which he suffered so much exposure 

 and illness as to originate that disorder under 

 which, in a few short months, he sank to the grave. 

 Being obliged by the weather to put in at the little 

 island of Fanno, the N.E. wind, as he touchingly 

 said, " nursed his cough and fever." He was con- 

 fined to his bed in a miserable hovel; and after 

 frequent attempts to sail, he was driven back six 

 times by the unfavourable wind. 



In the autumn of 1795 he reached England, and 

 died at Bath on the 8th February 1796, in the 

 thirty-eighth year of his age. This ardent botanist 

 and estimable man deserves to rank among the 

 most illustrious patrons of his favourite science, 

 not only for his labours during life, but for the 

 posthumous benefits he conferred upon it. By his 

 will he gave an estate in Oxfordshire to the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford, for the purpose of publishing his 

 Flora Grceca in ten folio volumes, with 100 coloured 

 plates in each, and an edition of the same work in 

 octavo, without plates. 



The task of editing the work was confided to the 

 illustrious president of the Lirmaean Society, who 

 completed six of the volumes, and the last was 

 published, after his death, by Mr R. Brown. 



