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110 plates. Two years after, this was followed by Part Third, with 100 
plates, making 410 in all; and it is understood that the materials of a 
fourth volume are left in such forwardness that it may perhaps be pub- 
lished by his surviving family. 
ur own estimate of this work has been recorded in the pages of this 
Journal, as the successive volumes were received. The motto which the 
author placed upon his title-pages :— 
“The man who labors and digests things most, 
Will be much apter to despair than boast,” 
1 felicitously expressive both of the endless difficulties of the subject, 
al is undervaluation of his endeavors to overcome them. A most 
competent judge briefly declares that,— 
“This work is certainly one of the most munificent contributions ever 
made to scientific botany, besides being one of the most accurate; on 
which account it certainly entitles its author to take a much higher place 
amongst botanists than that of an amateur, which was all that his mod- 
esty would allow him to lay claim to.” 
r. Boott’s health, which had long been delicate, was much shattered 
in the winter of 1839-40 by a dangerous attack of pneumonia. “ From 
_ this time he had repeated slight attacks; but no alarming symptoms oc- 
curred till June 1863, when the remaining lung gave way, and from that 
time he never fairly rallied. He died at his residence, 24 Gower street, 
on Christmas Day,—retaining to the last his faculties and all the charac- 
teristics of his most admirable life.” 
Dr. Boott was a man of singular purity, delicacy, and goodness of char- 
acter, and of the most affectionate disposition. Few men of his ardent 
temperament and extreme sense of justice ever made less enemies or more 
friends. To the latter he attached himself with entire devotion. If there 
Flora Boreali- Americana. His British herbarium was long ago simi- 
larly given to a then young American botanist Another who, twenty- 
five years ago, called to take leave of him upon return n- 
his own library, where they were not duplicates. We know of one or 
Wo instances where he had commenced a critical study of a particular 
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other =e ag apiece Society of London owes no little of its 
ed Prosperity to his long and faithful services and his wise counsels. 
kept up an active correspondence with his friends in this country ; 
