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most promising English botanists of the rising generation—Mr. G. E. 
Hunt, of Bowdon, near Manchester—which took place on the 26th of 
April, at the age of thirty-two. From his schooldays he took a great 
interest in Botan nd by the time that he was twenty 
years ago he became intimately su Pa with Wilson, and ioe 
himself especially to the args eld a responsible partes ina 
bank in Manchester, so that h A techie for botanical work was not 
eat ; but in spite ‘of’ these dimixntapia he formed one of the fitcat 
collections of British Mosses in existence, a large proportion of which 
were gathered with his own hands during his holiday tours amongst 
the Scotch, Lake, Irish, and Welsh mountains. In all questions con- 
ith : ‘ Sane 
were thoroughness and soundness of udgment. Before deciding upon 
any doubtful question he took great pains to study all available sources 
of information, and his naturally clear mind m im an excellent 
judge of the value of his facts when accumulated. As a correspon- 
dent he was most kind and liberal both with his specimens and time. 
the publication of Wilson’s magnum and the death of 
his friend it was ho ed — he would have undertaken, with the 
help of Wilson’s specim iting of the new edition of the 
the editing o: 
** Bryologia,”’ which the latter did not live to accomplish. This, unfor- 
tunately, his business engagements and the state of his seston at the 
time would not allow. It took a strong impulse to get him to write 
anything for printing, and his only published papers are his notes on 
new and critical Mosses contributed at different times to the Memoirs 
of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. He died 
hb ght was inte 
on the 30th of April, at St. Saviour’s Church, Plymouth Grove, 
A echeiter, 
John Stuart Mill, the celebrated logician and par casa we 
at Avignon on May 10th. In his early life he w 
field botanist, and contributed soanesiea short tr wa ae 
the early yolu mes of the ‘ Phytologist” on Surrey and Hampshire 
tany. ¢ 
: his name stan 
very numerous localities. So far back as 1822 he noticed the 
American Jmpatiens fulva, now so abundant along the lower tribu- 
taries of the magni by the Tillingbourne at Albury ee also con- 
tributed to the new series of the | “Phytologist,” edited by his 
friend, Mr. A. Irvine, who, it is remarkable, has survived him but 
three days. His chief paper here is one on Spring Flowers in the 
South of Europe. During his recently prolonged residence at 
Avignon, Mr. Mill returned with pleasure to his botanical pursuits, 
