296 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
[The a is at Peper ap near Godalming. Sir 
M. Grant Duff in is There is no reference to any Brodrick in 
the Biographical Index; perhaps this cert of Sir M. G. Duff's 
note may elicit forthér: information. | 
ee Carey (1761-1834). 
“Dr. Carey, late of Serampore, one of the best, the most 
amiable, gifted, and indefatigable of men; whose] virtues and 
talents adorned his country, and whose labours have promoted 
him modi — friend. His life was devoted to the 
diffusion of the Gospel; horticulture, natural history, and botany 
afforded the brief recreation he allowed himself from his daily 
toils. His favourite ciadiie® were the retik ie Poe family, and 
to him we are indebted for our knowledge of many of them. He 
was born in 1761, at Hackleton, in Sinident ershire, and embarked 
for India in 1793. In 1800 he was settled at Serampore, and he 
closed the labours of his useful life in 1884, beloved by all who 
new him, honoured by all whom his name has reached, having 
translated and superintended the publication of the peal i in forty 
oriental languages, which he had the perseverance to acquire for 
at purpose. Born in the humblest circumstances, often uncertain 
of his daily bread, at first a journeyman shoemaker, then a v 
schoolmaster, he had before his departure from England es 7) 
pac to read the Bible in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, Italian, 
Dutch, and had become conspicuous by his eloquent preaching, 
said his ardent desire to bring about the mission to India which 
originated in his powerful mind. When he arrived there he found 
it necessary to offer his services by. a hand-bill to make or repair 
shoes, and after he had risen to the head of a flourishing establish- 
ment, and occupied the chair of A ee professorships, he was not 
ashamed to nail up the original hand-bill against the wall of his 
study, but took pleasure in considering from what a humble grade 
he had been lifted up to a more useful and distinguished station by 
the grace of God and his own virtuous perseverance.’ 
Herbert, Amaryllidacea, pp. 264-5 (1887) 
Joun Kennepy (1759-1842). 
The reference to Lewis Kennedy in the Biographical Index of 
Botanists (see also Journ. Bot. 1899, 214) being | not ee, incorrect 
i error, it 
This 1 
substitution of ‘‘John’’ for ‘* Lewis,” and of the dates ‘‘1759- 
842” for * fi. veseis” all the subsequent matter refers to 
John, and has no erence to Lewis, who indeed can hardly claim 
a eons in the Inde 
he confusion week to have originated with Lindley, who (Bot. 
ioe, t. 1886 (1830) ) says that the genus Kennedia (which, in com- 
mon with most other writers, he misspells Kennedya) was named i in 
* Prof. Sargent, Silva N. Amer. iv. 16. 
