LIVES OF TRAVELLERS 



Curator of the Botanical Gardens at Trinity College, Dublin, 

 and in 1894 became keeper of the College Park. 



In 1889 he had conferred on him, honoris causa, the degree 

 of Master of Arts of Dublin University, and in 1897 was a 

 recipient of the Victoria Medal of Honour granted by the 

 Eoyal Horticultural Society in recognition of his services to 

 Horticulture. 



His much-lamented death, of a serious heart trouble, 

 occurred in Dublin on Sunday, December 24th 1905, in his 

 fifty-eighth year. On the 27th day of that month the Times 

 had the following appreciation : " Mr. Burbidge had the 

 academic as well as the horticultural mind ; he filled his 

 office with distinguished success, and made many important 

 contributions to the literature of his subject, on which he was 

 a recognized authority." 



Burbidge was the author of several works on gardening, 

 probably the most important his Cultivated Plants and 

 The Narcissus, whilst the Gardens of the Sun already 

 mentioned contains an account of his travels as a plant- 

 collector. 



The sixty-sixth volume of The Garden, to the editorial 

 staff of which he was attached from the year 1873 to 1877, is 

 dedicated to him by the Editor. 



The following is a list of Ferns discovered by Burbidge in 

 the neighbourhood of Labuan and Kina Balu, and which 

 were first described by Mr. Baker of Kew from Burbidge's 

 specimens : 



Alsophila Burbidgei. 

 Asplenium (Diplazium) porphyrorachis. 

 ( ) xiphophyllum. 

 Davallia Veitchii. 

 Lindsaya crispa. 



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