Obituary. 419 
" In objects of nature, my father was exceedingly curious. His collection 
of mineral ores, and other subjects of natural history, was extensive, and ob- 
tained his particular attention in seasons of leisure and recreation. The science 
of botany was his constant delight and study ; and his fondness for his garden 
remained to the last. No one was allowed to interfere in the arrangements of 
this his favourite retreat ; and it is here he enjoyed his most pleasant moments 
of secret devotion and meditation. The arrangements made by him were on 
the Linnaean system ; and to disturb the bed or border of the garden was to 
touch the apple of his eye. The garden formed the best and rarest botanical 
collection of plants in the east, to the extension of which, by his correspondence 
with persons of eminence in Europe and other parts of the world, his attention 
was constantly directed ; and, in return, he supplied his correspondents with 
collections from the east. It was painful to observe with what distress my fa- 
ther quitted this scene of his enjoyments, when extreme weakness, during his 
last illness, prevented his going to his favourite retreat. Often, when he was 
unable to walk, he was drawn into the garden in a chair placed on a board with 
four wheels. 
" In order to prevent irregularity in the attendance of the gardeners, he was 
latterly particular in paying their wages with his own hands ; and on the last 
occasion of doing so, he was much affected that his weakness had increased and 
confined him to the house. But, notwithstanding he had closed this part of his 
earthly scene, he could not refrain from sending for his gardeners into the room 
where he lay, and would converse with them about the plants ; and near his 
couch, against the wall, he placed the picture of a beautiful shrub, upon which 
he gazed with delight. 
" On this science he frequently gave lectures, which were well attended, and 
never failed to prove interesting. His publication of ' Roxburgh's Flora Indica,' 
is a standard work with botanists. Of his botanical friends he spoke with great 
esteem ; and never failed to defend them when erroneously assailed. He en- 
couraged the study of the science wherever a desire to acquire it was manifested. 
In this particular he would sometimes gently reprove those who had no taste 
for it ; but he would not spare those who attempted to undervalue it. His re- 
mark of one of his colleagues was keen and striking. When the latter some- 
what reprehended Dr Carey, to the medical gentlemen attending him, for ex- 
posing himself so much in the garden, he immediately replied, that his colleague 
was conversant with the pleasures of a garden, just as an animal was with the 
grass in the field." P. 577-9. 
Dr Carey was born August 17, 1761, and died on 9th June 1834. 
OBITUARY. 
We have this month to record the deaths of two men whose names will be 
long remembered by the Zoologist and Botanist Dr Leach and Mon. A. L. 
de Jussieu. We shall now only mention the fact that their decease has taken 
place ; but we trust ere long to be able to give some account of their labours 
in natural science, more consonant to the estimation in which they will continue 
to be held. Dr Leach died at Genoa of a few days' illness from cholera. De 
Jussieu expired at Paris ; his body bowed under the weight of years ; his age 
was eighty-nine. 
EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY JOHN STARK, OLD ASSEMBLY CLOSE. 
