276 Scientific Intelligence. 
to cruise among the South Sea Islands, and which offered him unexpected 
facilities, he visited the Fiji, Navigators’ and Friendly Islands, touching 
also at New Zealand. Returning to Poitier, he sailed to Valparaiso, which 
he reached much prostrated through over-exertion in a w climate ; 
and when recuperated he returned home by way of the Isthmus, arriving 
in October, 1856. The algological collections of these three laborious years, 
or the Australian portion of them, formed see — of Prof. eet 
than any panbae one. This was the Flora preet a full per 
account of all the plants of the Cape Colony and the adjacent provinces 
of Caffraria and Natal—in which he was associated with Dr. Sonder of 
Hamburgh. Three thick octavo volumes of this work have appeared, 
the last in 1865, including the Composite. Along with this Dr. Harve 
also it 
winter ae spring of 1864-5 were “epent in the ect of France, with 
: en 3 ° . % * . 
milder air, anit idee a peaceful rest. COn D Tuesd ay, the 15th of May, 
1866, at the age of 55 years, he quietly breathed his last, at the residence 
of Lady Hooker, the widow of his long-attached friend Sir William J. 
Hooker, surrounded by kind and anxious relatives and friends, and was 
buried in the cemetery at Torquay on Saturday the 19th of May.” 
