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and mind, and at the last without a struggle or sigh fell asleep in 

 Jesus. 



Only the Sunday preceding his illness he was at Church twice, 

 in the morning at the Tamil, and in the evening at the English 

 Service. On Monday evening he was at my house at our usual 

 weekly Meeting of the Catechists : he sat with us longer than 

 usual and seemed remarkably cheerful and well. The night before 

 he was seized with paralysis he expounded as was his custom to 

 the young people in his house, but was much longer and more 

 animated. And on the morning before he was taken ill he had a 

 young native girl, his adopted daughter's ayah, to read some por- 

 tion of the Tamil Testament to him, and to have it explained to 

 her. Up to the day preceding his illness he was engaged on his 

 Tamil and English Dictionary. His age was 86 years and 7 months. 

 His venerable remains attended by the Archdeacon and Clergy of 

 Madras, and a great number of Europeans, East Indians and Na- 

 tives, were interred in the Vepery Mission Church-yard on Sunday 

 evening. He has left all his books, manuscripts, herbarium, &c. 

 to the Vepery Mission, and a small house at the death to one of 

 his servants who now occupies it. If the Committee would allow 

 a small simple tablet to be put up in Vepery Church over the 

 place in which he always sat, I am persuaded that Europeans, 

 East Indians, and Natives would gladly unite in subscribing to 

 raise one. 



I am, Rev. and Dear Sir, 



Truly and obediently your's, 



C. Calthrop, 



Vepery, Feb. 2, 1836. Missy. S. P. G. F. P. 



The herbarium so bequeathed to the Mission was subsequently 

 presented by the Society to King's College London, where, as we 

 have seen, it remains, and is conspicuously labelled " Dr. Rottler's 

 Herbarium. " The botanical portion of his books were a few years 

 ago presented by the Gospel Propagation Society to the Madras 

 Medical College, where most of them still remain. Amongst them 

 is an interesting MS. Catalogue of Indian, &c. plants in Rottler's 

 handwriting, which, from the figured references attached to each 

 species, seems to have been the original Catalogue of his herba- 



