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Wilson ; his retirement was marked by a very high testimony to his 

 great merit, in a complimentary address, signed by no less than 

 two hundred Graduates of the University, including seven Heads 

 of Houses. 



Sir Graves Haughton acted as Honorary Secretary to the Royal 

 Asiatic Society in 1832-33. He became successively a Foreign 

 Member of the Asiatic Society of Paris, a Corresponding Member of 

 the Royal Society of Berlin, a Member of the Institute of France, 

 and of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, and in 1833 he received the 

 honour of knighthood. He was elected F.R.S. in 1821. 



He edited the Institutes of Menu in the original Sanscrit, with 

 a translation revised on that of Sir William Jones ; he was also the 

 author of a Bengali Grammar, of a Bengali-Sanscrit and English Dic- 

 tionary, and other works, particularly a Prodromus of an intended 

 larger work, entitled ' An Enquiry on the Nature of Language.' 



Sir Graves died on the 28th of August last, at St. Cloud near 

 Paris, in the 62nd year of his age. 



Edward Forster, Esq., during many years the respected Trea- 

 surer and a Vice-President of the Linnsean Society, was the third son 

 of Edward Forster, who was a distinguished merchant and for fifty-two 

 years held the appointment of Governor of the Russia Company in 

 London. He was born at Walthamstow in Essex, on the 12th of 

 October 1765, and resided in that neighbourhood during the whole 

 of his long life. He was for many years a partner in the banking- 

 house of Sir John Lubbock, Forster and Company, and thus became 

 closely associated with the present distinguished head of that house, 

 long the valued Treasurer 'and Vice-President of the Royal Society. 



From a very early period of his life, Mr. Forster was zealously 

 attached to the study of botany, and particularly to the cultivation 

 of a knowledge of British plants, in which department of science he 

 had attained to considerable eminence. He became a Fellow of the 

 Linnsean Society in the year 1800, and from that period till his death 

 he always took great interest in the welfare of that Society. He 

 was elected its Treasurer in 1816, and appointed one of the Vice- 

 Presidents in 1828. In 1821 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society, and served on the Council in the years 1839 and 1840. 



Mr. Forster did not contribute any paper to the Philosophical 

 Transactions. He was the author of two papers on isolated botanical 

 subjects, published in the Linnaean Transactions, and of several con- 

 tributions to the scientific periodicals of the day. His knowledge of 

 the species of British plants was remarkably accurate as well as ex- 

 tensive, but he had not devoted his attention, to any great extent, 

 to the science of Botany, strictly so called, — to the minute anatomy, 

 the physiology, and the affinities of plants. 



He was, in private life, one of the most amiable and estimable of 

 men, and arrived at a fine old age, surrounded by the affection and 

 reverence of numerous friends, who will long remember with regret 

 the kindliness of his spirit, the almost youthful warmth of his friend- 

 ship, and the pleasant playfulness, the simple and unaffected ur- 

 banity and courtesy of his manners. 



