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DEATH OF THE DEAN OF MANCHESTER. 
We deeply regret having this month to record the unexpected death of the Hon. and Rev. \ 
Herbert, Dean of Manchester, which took place suddenly at one o’clock on Friday, May 28th, ; 
his house in Hereford Street, Park Lane, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. His health had be ji 
declining for the last two years, and latterly he had been obliged to have medical attendant 
On the morning of his decease he appeared better than usual, and went out, but in about a quarj 
of an hour after his return home, he suddenly fell back in his chair, and expired alm<; 
immediately. 
To Botany and Horticulture this highly talented and excellent gentleman was most arden 
devoted. “To wonderful perseverance, untiring zeal, and much manual dexterity, he added, 
vigour of intellect and power of perception that have rarely been surpassed. None, except th( 
who enjoyed the honour of his intimate acquaintance, can imagine the enthusiasm with which I 
prosecuted his favourite studies. The ‘ Botanical Magazine ’ and ( Register ’ received from h 
frequent communications. His greatest work in this line, the e Amaryllidacece ,’ accompani 
with a treatise on hybrid intermixtures, was published in the year 1837. And such leisure 
remained to him in the succeeding years of his connexion with a great manufacturing city, and ' 
declining strength, was employed on the Iridacece. In this work, (which, had longer time or betl 
health been granted to him, would have been as complete as the former,) a progress has be 
made which may probably be thought sufficient to render its publication acceptable to t 
naturalists of this and other countries. A foretaste of this work appeared in his 6 Crocon 
Synopsis in the ( Miscellanea ’ to the e Bot. Reg.’ for 1843, 1844, and 1845. 
“Mr. Herbert was, beyond all other persons, instrumental in establishing and renderi 
popular the botanical theory of hybridization among plants ; as he was also among the earlie 
and one of the most eminently successful, of those who applied it to Horticultural practi< 
Upon the phenomena of hybrid intermixture he mainly founded those conclusions at which 1 
arrived concerning natural classification, and the doctrine of genus and species. They will 
found embodied in an essay on Hybridization amongst Vegetables , which has been published 
the Journal of the Horticultural Society ; and which constitutes a rich mine of valuable facts ai 
not less valuable reasoning.” 
