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father. The last illness of Jussieu was sudden and short : his body was 

 already bowed down with the weight of years; his hearing, as well as his 

 sight, had failed him, although his faculties are said to have otherwise re- 

 mained but little impaired ; and, at last, to use the words of a correspondent, 

 " sa wort flit moins iin malhcur qiCune apotheose" After the manner of the 

 French, a funeral oration was pronounced over his grave ,• and M. Mirbel, 

 to whom this sacred duty was entrusted, is said to have performed his melan- 

 choly task with an eloquence, good taste, and feeling, most worthy of his own 

 high reputation." {J. L. in AthencBU7>i, Oct. 22. 1836.) 



JH): John Shepherd, A.L.S., Curator of the Liverpool Botanic Gardens, 

 died >Sept. 27. 1836. His name has been associated with that Institution 

 from its first establishment, now nearly 35 years since. He was recommended 

 to Mr. Roscoe, the then president of the garden, by the late J. L. Philips, 

 Esq., of Manchester, and fully justified the high character given him by that 

 gentleman, as a person eminently gifted by nature for such a situation. En- 

 dowed with a native love of gardening, and indefatigable in his exertions, he 

 succeeded in raising the establishment over which he was placed to a state of 

 competition with the first gardens in Europe ; and it is believed that in the 

 department of hardy herbaceous plants it stood for many years unrivalled : the 

 scitamineous tribe were also cultivated with great success, and afforded an oppor- 

 tunity to Mr. Roscoe of illustrating that interesting class of plants. During 

 his long curatorship, the records of the garden exhibit an array of names of 

 high celebrity, as well in rank as science, and more particularly of enlightened 

 foreigners. Of social habits, and great cheerfulness of mind, his society was 

 much courted by the cultivators of plants in his own immediate vicinity and 

 the neighbouring counties, many gentlemen being anxious to avail themselves 

 of his correct taste in the disposition of their grounds and gardens. A pleasing 

 specimen of his talents in this line will be found in the new Liverpool Zoolo- 

 gical Gardens. From the extension of the town, and the proximity of dwelling- 

 houses, it was found requisite, about three years ago, to change the site of the 

 Liverpool Botanic Garden, and since that period Mr. Shepherd has been un- 

 intermittingly employed in preparing and completing the fine piece of ground 

 purchased for that purpose, in Lodge Lane, His health had sensibly declined 

 for the last two years, but he had the good fortune to survive to witness the 

 opening of the new gardens, when the approbation of his labours by the 

 gentlemen of the committee, and the subscribers at large, was conveyed to 

 him in a manner highly gratifying to the feelings of their aged curator. He 

 was arrested on his way to London by the hand of sickness, about the middle 

 of August, and returning home, after a confinement and severe illness of six 

 weeks, died on the 27th of September. Mr. Shepherd was born at Gosford, 

 a small village in Cumberland, and was in his 73d year. 



The interment of Mr. Shepherd took place at St. Mary's Church, Edge- 

 hill, when the committee of the Botanic Garden and a number of the pro- 

 prietors attended, as a mark of respect to the memory of their late curator, 

 (^Liverpool Mercury, Sept. 30,) 



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