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vertus, viens enflammer nos cceurs de cet amour pour le 

 bien, qui fut le mobile de toutes tes actions !"* 



Mr. Johnson, in his History of English Gardening, justly 

 calls him " This universal patron of the arts and sciences. 

 Natural history was the favourite of his scientific studies, 

 and every part of it was enriched by his researches." He 

 again hails him as " a munificent friend of science and lite- 

 rature." The name of Banks will always be associated with 

 that of Solander, the favourite pupil of Linnaeus, and with 

 that of the immortal Cook. De Lille closes his Jardins 

 with a most generous and animated invocation to the memory 

 of this intrepid navigator. 



WILLIAM FALCONER. The portrait of this eminent physi- 

 cian of Bath, is engraved by Fitler, from a painting by Da- 

 niel, of Bath, in 1791. It is prefixed to his " Influence of 

 the Passions upon Disorders." He died in August, 1824, at 

 the age of eighty-one. He published, 



1. Essay on the Preservation of the Health of Persons 

 employed in Agriculture, Is. Bath, 1789. 



2. Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History ; se- 

 lected from the principal writers of antiquity. 1793. 4to. 



3. Remarks on the Influence of Climate, Situation, Na- 



* The Quarterly Review for April, 1821, observes, that " The total num- 

 ber of exotics, introduced into this country, appears to be 11,970, of which 

 the first forty-seven species, including the orange, apricot, pomegranate, &c. 

 were introduced previously or during the reign of Henry VIII., and no 

 fewer than 6756 in the reign of George III. For this proud accession to 

 our exotic botany in the last century, the public are chiefly indebted to Sir 

 Joseph Banks, and Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Hammersmith nur- 

 sery." 



