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a second edition, with coloured plates, in 1790. His Lec- 

 tures were published after his death, to which is prefixed 

 his portrait. His portrait is also given in Dr. Thornton's 

 Botany. He died in 1799, was buried in Battersea church- 

 yard, and on his grave-stone these lines are inscribed : 



While living herbs shall spring profusely wild, 

 Or gardens cherish all that's sweet and gay. 



So long thy works shall please, dear nature's child, 

 So long thy memory suffer no decay. 



THOMAS MARTYN, Professor of Botany at Cambridge, 

 whose striking portrait, from a picture by Russel, appears in 

 Dr. Thornton's superb work on botany. He died in June, 

 1825, in the ninetieth year of his age. His edition of Mil- 

 ler's Gardener's Dictionary, appeared in 4- vols. folio. Mr. 

 Johnson observes, that this work " requires no comment. 

 It is a standard, practical work, never to be surpassed." 

 Mr. Martyn also published Flora Rustica, a description of 

 plants, useful or injurious in husbandry, with coloured plates , 

 4 vols. 8vo. 



SIR W. CHAMBERS. There are portraits of him by Sir J. 

 Reynolds, engraved by Collyer and by Green ; one by Cotes, 

 engraved by Houston, in 1772; and a profile by Pariset, 

 after a drawing by Falconot. He died in 1796, aged sixty- 

 nine. He published, 



1 . Designs for Chinese Buildings. 



2. Plans and Views of the Buildings and Gardens at 

 Kew. 



3. A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, second edition, 

 with additions. To which is annexed an Explanatory Dis- 



