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wards in the same capacity with Gibson & Service, in Virginia Place. 

 In 1851 he entered into partnership with Mr. James Pritchard in the 

 manufacture of sewed muslins. This connection lasted for about six 

 years, after which he carried on a business on his own account but 

 his mind was more interested in Botany than in business, and the 

 result was not a commercial success. The last few years of his life 

 were spent almost in retirement, and he had little but his lectures 

 in the Andersonian University to attend to. During these later 

 years he became weak in body and unable for much physical exertion, 

 and suffered severely from attacks of rheumatism. His death resulted 

 at last from the breaking of a blood-vessel, and was, as is usual in 

 such cases, very sudden and unexpected. It occurred at Whitehall, 

 Bothwell, on the 22nd October, 1876, at the age of sixty-seven. 



In 1834 he had married the daughter of Mr. David Cross, of 

 Rutherglen, a lady whose energy and industry in relation to her 

 husband's work deserves a better mention than can be possibly 

 given in this notice. 



My first acquaintance with Mr. Kennedy was from his undertaking 

 to teach a small Botanical Class in the Athenaeum in 1848 the year 

 that institution first came into existence. My own liking for flowers, 

 and a desire to learn something of Botany, and his own predilections 

 towards art which his profession of a designer had given him, soon 

 made us fast friends. We made many excursions together, not only 

 about Glasgow, but also at the Coast and in the Highlands, when he 

 botanised while I sketched. These rambles I look back to still with 

 a feeling of pleasure ; to me they were a source of great delight. 

 By their means I picked up without any trouble on my part a slight 

 knowledge of flowers, and I found a man who had read more than 

 myself, whose conversation opened up new fields of thought, and to 

 whom I still look back with that feeling of gratitude which ought 

 always to belong to the relations of a student and faithful teacher. 

 I have made this reference to Roger Kennedy, for I think it is due 

 to his memory to record that he was not only a Botanist, successful 

 as he was in that science, his reading and study were not by any 

 means limited to that single subject. He was familiar with the 

 whole range of natural history, and at one time he made a 

 conchological collection of some extent. His mind was not con- 

 fined to matters of a scientific character general literature was 



