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B20 OBITUARY. 
mum Fereuson, F.L.S., died at Colombo, Ceylon, on the 
8ist of July last, a few days after the sixty-seventh anniversary of 
his birth. From the time of his arrival in the Colony in 1839, 
at the age of nineteen, he had been an enthusiastic collector, and a 
close observer of Nature. His work as a surveyor early took him 
last twenty-five years he lived almost continuously in Colombo, and 
ev hown and appreciated for his genial, courteous 
sa t manner, and his kindly and unselfish readiness in 
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: usiastic observer in the field, with a first-rate eye for 
a and a very retentive memory ; but he never paid much 
: an ep 
and newspapers, but as early as 1850 he published at 
Colombo a remarkable and unique little book on the Palmyra Palm, 
papers were an 
use in thi 
— be gratefully Yemembered by all who the pleasure 
dedi pid e of wing him. Dr. (now Sir Joseph) Hooker 
cated to him a curious herbaceous Ceylon Rubiacea, Fergusonia, 
was afterwards | in Ie. 
Henry Trimen. 
