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tie of the corallines against Parsons and the 

 rest, and even in measuring pens with Linne, 

 the prince of naturalists. There are those who 

 can sympathize with the gallant old Scotch 

 officer mentioned by some writer on sea-weeds, 

 who, desperately wounded in the bi-each at 

 liadajos, and a sharer in all the toils and tri- 

 umphs of the Peninsular war, could in his old age 

 show a rare sea-weed with as much triumph as his 

 well-earned medals, and talk over a tiny spore- 

 capsule with as much zest as the records of sieges 

 and battles. Why not? That temper which 

 made him a good soldier may very well have 

 made him a good naturalist also. And certainly, 

 the best naturalist, as far as logical acumen, as 

 well as earnest research, is concerned, whom 

 England has ever seen, was the Devonshire 

 sfjuire, Colonel George Montagu, of whom Mr. 

 K. Forbes* well says, that "had he been educated 

 a physiologist," (and not, lus he was, a soldier and 

 a sportsman,) " an<l made the study of nature his 



* " British Stnr-fislicfj." This delightful writer, and eager 

 investigator, ha» just died, in the prime of life, from dis- 

 oa.so contracted (it is said) during a i-cifntlfic journey in 

 Asia Minor : one uvrc martyr to tlic ktiif;lit-errnntry of 

 science. 



