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ble juice that merits attention, It happened, during the Spanish admin- 
istration, that a number of written documents, destined to the mother 
list. Of European botanists we have to record only the following :— 
theory of deduplication, which he maintained in his inaugural thesis 
Montpellier, published in 1826. His principal botanical writings (for he 
wrote also upon zoological and other subjects) are his succinct mono 
And now with deep sorrow we have to add the name Be 
rancis Boott, M.D., who died at his residence in London on engg 
mas morning, in the 71st year of his age. _He was born in meee 
the 26th of September, 1792, His father, Kirk Boott, came to fal 
country early in life, from Derbyshire, England, became 4 | 
merchant in Boston, was one of the pioneers of manufacturing entie” 
prise here, and one of the founders of Lowell,—the type, if not me 
the original, of New England manufacturing towns. His ‘oh the 
dence was on the site now occupied by the Revere House, of whi versit] 
Boott mansion forms a part. Francis Boott entered Harvard Uni ahet, 
in the year 1806, and took his Bachelor's degree in 1810. A year sailed 
being then in his nineteenth year, viz., in the summer of 1811, he 
and the three succeeding years were mainly spent with his. rela 
their friends near Derby, where he made the acquaintance of Mrs. er : 
_ castle, his future mother-in-law, who was something of a botanish _ 
