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Biographical Memoir of the laie [No. 32, 



,^acreli to tf)c iHemorj) of 

 WILLIAM GRIFFITH, Esq., F. L. S. 



Madras Medical Service^ 

 Born at Ham, in the County of Surry, March, 1810, 



HE HAD ATTAINED TO THE HIGHEST EMINEiS'CE IN THE SCIENTlFie 

 WORLD, AND WAS ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED 

 BOTANISTS OF THE AGE. 

 HE ACQXJIKED HIS KNOWLEDGE BY PEKSONAL INVESTIGATION IN 



THE DIFFERENT PEOYINCES OF BRITISH INDIA, AND IN THE 

 NEIGHBOURING KINGDOMS, FROM THE BANKS OF THE HELMUND ANI> 

 OXITS, TO THE STRAITS OF MALACCA, WHERE, 

 IN THE CAPACITY OF CIYIL ASSISTANT SURGEON, 

 HE DIED 9th FEBRUARY 1845, IN THE 35tH YEAR OF HIS A6B, 



AND THE 13th YEAR OF HIS PUBLIC SERVICE IN INDIA. 

 HIS EARLY DEATH IS DEEPLY DEPLORED BY NUMEROUS PRIVATE 

 FRIENDS, AND HIS LOSS TO THE CAUSE OF SCIENCE ELICITED 

 A PUBLIC AND EMPHATIC EXPRESSION OF REGRET 

 FROM THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA. 



THIS TABLET IS ERECTED AS AN HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY, 

 BY A FEW OF HIS MEDICAL BRETHREN, OF 

 THE MADRAS SERVICE. 



The following list of his publications is derived chiefly from Dr. 

 M'Clelland's Memoir. 



Botanical. 



1. On the Family of RhizophoreEe. Trans. Med. and Phys. See. 



Calcutta, 1836, vol. viii. 



2. Description of two genera of the Family of Haraamelideje, two 



species of Podesteraon, and one species of Kaulfussia. Asia- 

 tic Researches, vol. xix. 1836. 



3. Muscologia Itineris Assamici ; or description of Mosses collect- 



ed during the journey of the Assam Deputation in the years 

 1835 and 1836. Proceedings of the Linnsean Society 1838, 

 Calcutta Journal of Natural History, vol. ii p. 465, vol. iii. 

 p. 56, p. 270. 



4. Remarks on a collection of plants made at Sudyah, in Upper 



Assam, from April to September, 1836. Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society, vol. v. p. 806. 



