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Sir John Richardson, the well-known Arctic esse zoologist an 
botanist, died on the sth of June last, in the 78th year of his age. He 
Hu rr Cuming, the renowned collector in natural history, especially of 
shel and whose botanical eprEe in Chili, the Pacific Islands, we 
Philippines, &e.,—distributed i in sets fifteen or twent y years ago, w 
e rie eile in banana Se on the 10th of August last, at the an 
‘ol 
Thom . PB ridg ell 
cal ilicccas in Chili, Bolivia and Peru, ara more than ing 
_ ago, but who has for the past Meson or ten years résidied in Califor- 
n th 
as 
12th ¢ of ent ak at the age of 30 years. A biog sernn mv of 
this eminent botanist forms the leading article of the present volume. 
We are informed that the — of the throat of which he died was 
not diphtheria, as we had stated 
John Lindley, one of ci most renowned botanists of the age, died at 
his residence near ag es on the ” os November last, at the age of 66 
years, A few lines of our Janua mber contained an ee 
of this sad hick ne 6, foot-note), i an incidental expression of o 
Sense of the services he has rendered to science. Weadd some Sasarepte 
ical details, compiled from the excellent notice which appeared in the Gar- 
deners’ Chronicle, the paper which Dr. Lindley? established and edited 
for a quarter of a century. 
He was born at Catton, near Norwich, where his father was a n 
Man, on the 5th of February, 1799; and was a. at the Newel 
Gramma ar School, as was_his friend pe earliest scientific’ acquaintance, 
= hon Hooker. It was at the house of the eo soon _ his re- 
Moval to Halesworth, that young Lindley began his career of a 
: ip 
a Hepp Richard's Analyse du Fruit, which wa published in 18 1819. 
ready to have devoted himself to bota: 
ich f Philosophy from the Univ 
of Ms -m ap Berek a dad Doctor 9: Pp aay 
Ax. Jour. Scr.—Secoxp Santis, Vor. XLI, No. 122 —Maxcu, 1866. 
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