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his former tour. They visited the plain of Troy, the isles of Imbros 

 and Lemnos, the peninsula of Athos, passed some time in Attica; 

 proceeded on their journey to the Morea, where they spent two 

 months, examining the most interesting parts of that province. 



" They reached Zante on the 29th of April, and there Dr. S. parted 

 from the faithful companion of his journey, whom he was destined 

 never to see again, but in whose friendship he safely confided in 

 his last hours. Mr. H. returned to Greece ; the Professor left Zante 

 for Otranto ; on the voyage he was detained by a contrary wind at 

 Prevesa, and visiting the ruins of Nicopolis caught a severe cold, 

 from which he never recovered. It seems to have proved the ex- 

 citing cause of that disease, which had long been latent in the 

 mesenteric and pulmonary glands, and which terminated in a con- 

 sumption. He arrived in England in 1795, and died at Bath in 

 1796, in the 38th year of his age. 



" The posthumous benefits which Dr. S. has rendered to his beloved 

 science are sufficient to rank him among its most illustrious patrons. 

 By his will, dated 1796, he gives a freehold estate in Oxfordshire 

 to the University of Oxford, for the purpose of first publishing his 

 Flora Graeca, in ten folio volumes, with 100 coloured plates in each, 

 and a Prodromus of the same work, in octavo, without plates. . His 

 executors, the Hon. T. Wenman, J. Hawkins, and T. Piatt, Es- 

 quires, were to appoint a sufficiently competent editor of these works, 

 to whom the MSS. drawings and specimens were to be confided. 

 They fixed upon the writer of the present article, who has now 

 nearly completed the Prodromus, and the second volume of the 

 Flora. In preparing the latter work, the final determination of 

 the species, the distinctions of such as were new, and all critical 

 remarks have fallen to his lot; he has also revised the references to 

 Dioscorides, and with Mr. Hawkins's help, corrected the modern Greek 

 names. When these publications are finished, the annual sum of 2001. 



