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" In his last moments he was tranquil and " perfectly content to 

 close his career." Exhibiting and expressing the firmness of his 

 faith, and his full trust and confidence in the redeeming effects of the 

 sufferings and merits of Christ, he had his domestics assembled 

 around him to witness the serenity with which he was enabled to 

 contemplate the certain approach of death. It is no exaggerated 

 portraiture of Dr. Turner's character to say, in a few words, that he 

 afforded an extraordinary instance of the combination of the best 

 and highest qualities, most accurate perception, enlarged intelligence, 

 active benevolence, unaffected piety, universal charity." 



Persoon. — The learned botanist of the Cape of Good Hope, M. 

 Persoon, is now no more ; he died at Paris at a very advanced age, 

 having lived there since he enjoyed a pension from his government, 

 which was granted to him on giving up his Herbarium to the Museum 

 at Leyden. His works on Cryptogamea are excellent; and his En- 

 chiridium Botanicum is one of the most useful works of its kind which 

 has yet been published. — Athenceum, Feb. 18, 1837. 



Mr. Richard Cunningham, the able botanist, who was connected 

 with an expedition in New South Wales, was cruelly murdered by a 

 band of savages, into whose hands he was so unfortunate as to fall, 

 somewhere near the end of April, 1835. Loudon's Gardener's 

 Magazine, contains a thrilling and interesting letter from his afflicted 

 brother, which we have not room to copy. From this letter, we 

 learn that he by accident, became separated from his companions, 

 and after wandering some days, fell in with the savages before men- 

 tioned, who gave him food and allowed him to encamp with them for 

 the night ; that their suspicions were aroused by Mr. C.'s rising re- 

 peatedly in the course of the night, and walking about the encamp- 

 ment; and fearing lest it was his intention to betray them into the 

 hands of some of their enemies, in the neighborhood, they determined, 

 after consultation, to kill him, which they did by rushing on him with 

 their spears. He had just completed his forty second year. 



We announce with much regret the death of Mr. Edward Turner 

 Bennet, Secretary to the Zoological Society, who died on Sunday, 

 21st August, after a short illness. By his decease the society has 

 lost one of its most efficient office-bearers, and one whose province it 

 was to detail the interesting additions which were acquired to the 

 mammalia of the collection. In this department he ranked deser- 

 vedly high ; perhaps, so far as Britain is concerned, higher than any 



