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disposition, he was the kindest of helpmates and most disinterested 

 of labourers for others." The compiler of this notice, who had 

 the privilege of association with him in the work of the Kew her- 

 barium for twenty-five years, can most feelingly answer to the truth 

 of this. 



A Royal Medal was awarded to Mr. Bentham in 1859 : he was 

 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. The titles of ninety 

 papers by his own hand, and seven written jointly with other bota- 

 nists, occupy nearly three pages in the Society's Catalogue of Scientific 

 Papers. He was a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. 

 George, and member or associate of almost every society in Europe, 

 America, and Australia, which recognises biological studies. 



He left no relative except a grand-niece. 



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Thomas Watson was born in Devonshire on the 7th March, 1792, 

 as appears from the register of his birth in the parish church of 

 Kentisbeare, in that county. His early education was begun, during 

 the head mastership of Dr. Malken, at the Grammar School of Bury 

 St. Edmund's, where he was a contemporary of the late Bishop Bloin- 

 field, with whom he was always on terms of intimate friendship. 



On leaving Bury school he entered as a pensioner at St. John's 

 College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1815, when he was tenth 

 wrangler, and in the following year was elected Fellow of his College, 

 and became M.A. in 1818. According to a rule which then existed 

 those Fellows of St. John's who were not in holy orders, could retain 

 their Fellowships for a short time only. From this rule, however, 

 certain Fellowships, one of which was set apart for the study of 

 medicine, were exempted, and Mr. Watson held his Fellowship until 

 his marriage in 1825, in which year he took his M.D. degree. 



While at Cambridge he taught private pupils, and in 1823-24 

 he served the office of Junior Proctor. During his seven years' 

 residence as Fellow of St. John's he was occasionally absent for 

 months together; in 1819, he was a student of medicine at St. Bar- 

 tholomew's under Mr. Abernethy, and in the session of 1820-21, 

 he attended the medical classes in Edinburgh. In 1825 he married 

 the daughter of Edward Jones, Esq., of Brackle}^, Northampton- 

 shire, and commenced practice in Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square. 

 In 1826 he was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians, and in 

 the following year physician to the Middlesex Hospital. In 1828, 

 when University College was opened, Dr. Watson was appointed 

 Professor of Clinical Medicine, and gave lectures on cases under 

 his care in the wards of the Middlesex Hospital. This appointment 

 he held until 1831, when, at the opening of King's College, he 

 was appointed Professor of Forensic Medicine in that institution,. 



