300 The late Mr. William Griffith. 



Although the MSS. and drawings are a good deal confused, often 

 rubbed and torn, yet, as they relate to India plants examined in 

 their fresh state, a little trouble will, I hope, enable them to prove 

 of use, for which intent I beg to recommend them to be arranged by 

 Mr. Lemann, Sir Wm. Hooker, Mr. Bentham. 



I recommend myself to Mr. Brown, Dr. Lindley, Mr. R. H. Solly, 

 Dr. Wight, Mr. Bentham, Dr. Martius, Dr. Nees Von Esenbeck, Mons. 

 Decaisne, trusting that they have considered my exertions creditable, 

 and that they will assist in favour of my reputation as a scientific 

 Botanist, which I had hoped a longer life would have enabled me to 

 establish. ********** 



To the Honourable Court, I humbly recommend my three unmar- 

 ried sisters, Apollonia, Matilda and Letitia, left in very indifferent 

 circumstances, trusting that the Honourable Court will be pleased to 

 grant them some degree of favour in continuance of their unvaried 

 patronage of Indian Botanical pursuits, and their constant condes- 

 cension to me. 



Signed, by the Medical officer who attended him, 



William Morehead, 

 Madras Medical Service. 



With the following views of Dr. Wight on the subject, we 

 conclude our remarks for the present. 



Extract of letter from R. Wight, Madras Medical Service, to J. 



McClelland, Assistant Surgeon, Bengal Service, dated Coimbatore, 



3\st March, 1845. 



" You ask me what I think whether to continue or drop the journal, 

 my idea is that the surest plan by far for ensuring the publication 

 of Griffith's papers is to continue the publication of the journal, each 

 number of which may be made to absorb a portion of them, and 

 when they are all published, it may then become a matter of consi- 

 deration as to its further continuance. But in the mean time it 

 is an object to preserve the fruits of one of the ablest and most 

 untiring labourers that ever embarked in the culture of the fields of 



