Sa CRE eae Nee ee ee ee 
THE 
JOURNAL OF BOTANY, 
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
FRIEDRICH WELWITSCH. 
A srerkixe and familiar figure for some years past in the scientific 
circles of London has passed off the e in the person of Dr. 
Welwitsch. Tall and strongly built, but bearing evident traces of 
slowly wandering under the vertical sun over the marshy or sand 
plains of the coast of Angola. . 
In London his life was a very industrious ‘one, and his habits all 
subordinated to his scientific work. He rose at five or six, and afte 
rants, returning to h 
which generally continued far into the early morning. He took 
little food and very little sleep, and though constantly suffering 
always kept up thisroutine. Few men ever worked more assiduously, 
and though comparatively little of his labours have seen the licht, all 
d by that ision and let hich are only found 
was probably underrated, from his difficulty in expressing his ideas 
c i uch with him 
ascertained, but it was in the year 1807. He. was one of a large 
family, his father being the owner of an extensive farm, and surveyor 
N.8. voL. 2. [sanuary 1, 1873. ] B 
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