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within the. laft sore in many places, encroached on the 
Englifh. Such as would with to arrive at accuracy in topo- 
graphical Paces, would do well to ftudy Gaélic, as 
more than two-thirds of the names of places in the united 
kingdom are evidently of Celtic extraGtion. Some months 
ago a chapel has been opened in London, where divine 
worfhip is performed in Gaélic according to the forms of 
the church of co. 
R, H, in Bio iogr aphy, a botanift emi- 
nently diftinguilhed for his attention to fruits and feeds, 
with a view to the more certain ag acaeeee of the genera 
of Wirtemberg, 
duke of 
was 
Wagner, both died in his me ee ie He was af frit 
deftined by his furviving relations for the church, and 
received the erin parts 0 of his education at Tubingen and 
Stutgard ; not oe {uitable to the profeffion which. 
had been hae for him, he was directed, with no better 
fuccefs, to the law. ih aving had an early bias towards the 
ftudy of natural hiftory, he reforted to phyfic, as moft con- 
genial to his difpofition, and removed to the celebrated uni- 
verfity of Gottingen in the roth year of his age. Here the 
leGtures of the great Haller and others confirmed and in- 
ftruéted him-in the darling objects of his purfuit, anatomy, 
phyfiology, and botany, and ultimately decided him to 
devote himfelf to thefe ftudies, rather for his own informa- 
of advancement in 
ormer. 
time acquired the ufe of the pencil, in which he eminently 
excelled, and which Ages tae proved of the greateft ufe 
to him in enabling him to draw the beautiful and accurate 
“figures of the books he publifhed. Having beftowed great 
attention upon the obfcurer tribes of marine animals and 
mode of propagation 
oe 
Tranfactions ; and i pr epared feveral effays 0 on the anatomy 
of fifhes, and other obfcure matters of animal and vegetable 
phyfiology, part of which only has hitherto be 
laft mentioned, and about a year afterwards he bega n' to 
plan, and . eens for, the great wor which 
his eminent reputation refts, the objeG@t of aie was the 
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illuftration ey ae and feeds, for the purpofes above men 
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many new or obfcur néd his profefforfhip at 
the end of two years, fteadily peluGne the penfion ordinarily 
attached to it, and retired in the 
eight years he found it neceflary, 
for the ‘perfeétion of his intended work, to revifit fore c 
the feats of feience in which he had formerly fiudied, in order 
to re-examine feveral botanical colleG&i ions, and to converfe 
again with perfons devoted to fimilar i inquiries with his own. 
Above all he was anxious to profit by the difcoverics of the 
diftinguifhed voyagers Banks and heres who received 
him with open arms on his arrival a 
with the liberality which ever lifting if} 
freely laid before him all their scquiitons, and affitted 
with their own obfervations and difcoveri 
s being his own Jphenvclea, has been 
fuperfeded by panies and a finer plants fee GHRTNERA. 
He vifited Thenberg in his return through Amfterdam, 
that dift inguifhed botanift a traveller bemg then lately 
arrived oo Japan; nor were the acquifitions 
lefs 
° 
“3.8 
ca 
ct 
rien 
fpoile, deftined 1 to enrich his intended a oatlicaton, 
ere however ie labours and his darling purfuits were in- 
terrupted b rere diforder in his eyes, which for man 
months a aek total blindnefs ; nor was it till after an in« 
eg ancl four or five years that he was able to refume 
udies, 
“At length he gre to the public the firft volume of his 
of the fruit and feed. 
tence of real flowers, and confe- 
oe of proper feeds, in Fungi, and other ab les aa 
vegetables, in which ape: Saas others conceive they had 
dete&ted the organs of im eal feeds. 
(Bee. e GerMEN.) In the detail of his work he a pitas 
the great Swedifh naturalift, with more or lefs juftice, but 
not always with candour, and changes his names he pai 
for the worfe. In fynonyms he is not always copy- 
ing them, as it appears, from errors of the prefs ee iy 
tran{cribed from other euithare: without turning to the books 
quote 
In fie definition ~ anatomical elucidation of the part 
of the fee 
See T 
nngéan Soc. wl gth 204.) In his eter in 7 aificate 
es concerning the eftablfhment of particular genera, 
Gertner, like all botgnidts whofe fixed attention is bent 
upon 
