68 LIFE OF 



THOMAE . ANDREAE . KNIGHT . A.M. R.S.S. 

 HORTULANORUM . SOCIETATIS . APUD . LONDINENSES . PRAESIDI 



QUEM . SUMMO . INGENII . ACUMINE . ET . VI . PRAEDITUM 



CERTAM . PERFECTAM . QUE . RERUM . SCIENTIAM . IMPENSE . PERQUIRENTEM 

 IMPRIMIS.HORTORUM . CULTURAE . PROVEHENDAE. OPERAM . ET . STUDIUM . NAVANTEM 



PIETAS . ERGA . DEUM 

 QUEM . EX . TOTIUS . NATURAE . MENTE . ATQUE . ANIMO . BENEVOLUM . AGNOVIT 



COMITAS . ERGA . SUOS 

 QUORUM . COMMODIS . STUDIO . ACERRIMO . INSERVIEBAT 



PARITER . EXORNAVERUNT 



RERUM . NATURAE . COGNITORI . DILIGENTISSIMO . ET . LOCUPLETI 



SCIENTIAE . ATQUE . DOCTRINAE . FAUTORI . STRENUO . ET . BENEFICO 



VIRO . OPTIMO . HOMINI . AEQUISSIMO 



CONJUX . CONJUGI . AMANTISSIMO 



H. M. P. C. L. M. 

 ANNO . SACRO . MDCCCXXXVIII. 



At a meeting of the Horticultural Society, held on the 19th 

 of June, for the purpose of electing a President in the room of 

 Mr. Knight, it was resolved " That this meeting deeply deplore 

 the loss the Society has sustained by the death of their late 

 President, T. A. Knight, Esq., an individual not less distin- 

 guished for his private worth than for his public usefulness ; 

 whose memory, from the urbanity of his manners, the kindness 

 of his disposition, his attachment to science generally, more 

 especially to that branch patronised by this Society, will be 

 long cherished, as his decease will be sincerely lamented." 



In December following,, the Duke of Sussex resigned the 

 Chair of the Royal Society, and in a farewell address, delivered 

 on this occasion, his Royal Highness alluded to those distin- 

 guished members whose loss the Society had sustained since the 

 last anniversary meeting, and when speaking of Mr. Andrew 

 Knight, described him as " having possessed very great activity 

 of body and mind, with singular perseverance and energy in the 

 pursuit of his favourite science ; a lucid and agreeable writer* 

 who had by his labours developed views of the greatest value 

 and interest in vegetable physiology, as well as in practical 



