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met at last with its due recompense : after having had seven votes 

 in 1837 as candidate for the Institute, he was elected almost una- 

 nimously in 1853 as successor to Achille Eichard, and finally, on 

 the 8th of April, 1858, received the cross of an ofl&cer of the Le- 

 gion of Honour." 



With regard to Dr. Montague's contributions to science, a large 

 proportion of them appeared in the ' Annales des Sciences Natu- 

 relles.' In the difi'erent series of that periodical he described from 

 time to time, in separate Centuries, between 800 and 900 plants 

 belonging to different Cryptogamic orders. Besides these he gave, 

 in the ' Annales des Sciences,' accounts of several different col- 

 lections of Cryptogamic plants, viz. of the Cryptogams of the 

 neighbourhood of Algiers, collected by M. Koussel, of Brazilian 

 Cryptogams collected by St. Hilaire, of Pungi collected by Drege 

 in tropical Africa, of the Cryptogamic plants of French Gruiana, 

 collected by Leprieur, of the Cryptogams of the Neilgherry Hills, 

 collected by Perrottet, of the Cryptogams of the island of Juan 

 Fernandez, collected by Bertero, of the Fungi of Belanger's East- 

 Indian travels, and of the Cryptogams collected during the voyage 

 of the 'Astrolabe ' and the ' Zelee.' 



Of those of his publications which appeared separately, the 

 principal are, * The Cryptogams (Algae, Lichens, Hepaticse, and 

 Mosses) collected during the voyage of La Bonite ; ' the " Plantse 

 Cellulares," forming the last part of the ' Histoire Naturelle des 

 Canaries ;' the " Cryptogamia" of Ramon de la Sagra's ' History 

 of Cuba ;' the " Algse, Collemacese, and Podaxineae," and (in con- 

 junction with M. Durieu de Maisonneuve) the " Pyrenomycetes," 

 of the 'Exploration scientifique de I'Algerie ;' and the " Crypto- 

 gams" of Gay's ' History of Chili.' 



In 1856 Dr. Montague conferred a great boon upon science by 

 collecting and arranging systematically in one volume all the 

 genera and species of Cryptogamic plants described in his sepa- 

 rate works and detached papers. This valuable book, familiar to 

 cryptogamic botanists as Montague's ' Sylloge,' contains also a 

 list of the author's works and papers, to which I must refer those 

 readers who are desirous of a fuller account of his labours than 

 the space at my command enables me to give. 



From a notice written by a personal friend of Dr. Montague, 

 and which appeared in the ' Grardener's Chronicle ' of the 20th of 

 January last, we learn that he had for some time been quite in- 

 capacitated for any exertion, and had almost lost the power of 

 speech. The eulogistic remarks of the writer, in question will be 



