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was at work, and the mere list of his publications, in which his 
contributions to the Prodromus and to the Monographioe appear 
only as single numbers, amounts to 235. His botanical subjects 
ranged from strict taxonomy, through writings on geographical dis- 
tribution, effect of external conditions on plants, and economics, to 
the theory and practice of botanical description and nomenclature. 
But, like many men of outstanding ability, his energies were at 
times diverted into other lines than those of his favourite study ; 
bred a lawyer, he doubtless found that early training of value in his 
capacity as a member of the Kepresentative Council, which he 
entered in 1834. Judging from his mixed writings, his interests 
appear to have been wide, with a special bias towards anthropology, 
and the amelioration of the conditions of the race ; these tastes 
found their expression in his legislative successes. 
It was natural that a man with such a scientific record as his 
should have received very wide recognition, not only in his own 
country, hut throughout the scientific world. The Eoyal Societies 
of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, the Institute of Erance, the 
Academies of all the chief capitals of Europe, claimed him as a 
foreign member or associate. Our own Society will feel that in 
offering him in 1877 a place among the foreign fellows it had 
honoured itself. He has gone to the grave full of years and of 
honours, leaving as his mark upon the progress of botany such a 
record of solid and long-continued work as has seldom been attained 
by scientific writers. 
