294 Linnaan Society. 



Germany in 1828. During the latter years of his life he resided at 

 Bayswater, in the neighbourhood of London. 



Soon after his first arrival in England he was visited by a severe 

 attack of inflammatory rheumatism, which disabled him for two years 

 and terminated in an anchylosed knee and a contracted left arm. 

 During a subsequent attack in 1820 his right arm was broken in the 

 operation of shampooing, and not having properly united was again 

 broken in 1825, when its amputation became necessary. At the 

 same time the thumb and two of the fingers of his left hand were 

 rendered useless. He afterwards suffered frequently from attacks of 

 illness, and died on the 14th of December 1843, of the effects of 

 severe and long-continued disease of the lungs. 



Such w^ere the adverse circumstances under which Mr. Loudon 

 commenced and pursued a career of literary labour of no ordinary 

 extent, of much variety of subject, and requiring intense severity of 

 application. His first essay was published in 1803, and for forty 

 years he continued almost without intermission the publication of a 

 series of works, original and compiled, chiefly devoted to agriculture, 

 horticulture and rural architecture, and of a highly useful and prac- 

 tical character. The number and magnitude of these works, the in- 

 cessant labour required in their production, and the anxieties neces- 

 sarily attendant on the large outlay of money involved in them, were 

 sufficient to undermine a constitution of far greater strength ; but 

 his energy and enthusiasm supported him through every difficulty, 

 and did not desert him even on his death-bed. He has left a widow 

 and one child, a daughter ; the former well known by various publi- 

 cations, and especially by her ' Ladies' Flower-Garden' and ' Ladies' 

 Botany.' 



James Macartney, Esq., M.D., F.R.S. &:c., was born in Armagh in 

 March 1770, and was educated in the country. He was not origi- 

 nally destined for any jirofession ; but in 1794 he aj^prenticed him- 

 self to Dr. Hartigan, then Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Col- 

 lege of Surgeons in Ireland, In 1798 he removed to London, where 

 he became Demonstrator of Anatomy in St. Bartholomew's Hospital; 

 and two years afterwards commenced lecturing on Comparative 

 Anatomy and Physiology. This course, of which he published a 

 Prospectus in 1806, was continued until 1810. In the following year 

 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ; and having returned 

 to Ireland was in 1813, on the death of his former teacher Dr. Har- 

 tigan, elected Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in Trinity College, 

 Dublin, which office he filled for four-and- twenty years. He died 

 of apoplexy on the 6th of March 1843. 



Both as a comparative anatomist and an improver of the practice 

 of surgery, Dr. Macartney is entitled to honourable mention. The 

 more important of his contributions to Comparative Anatomy were 

 published in Rees's ' Cyclopoedia,' in which the principal articles on 

 that subject were written by him. To the ' Philosophical Transac- 

 tions ' he contributed some valuable " Observations upon Luminous 

 Animals," published in the volume for 1810, and "An Account of 

 an Appendix to the small Intestines of Birds," in that for 1811. A 



i 



