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communication, “ Notes of a Botanical Tour in Ladak or Western 
Tibet,” appeared in the “ Transactions of the Botanical Society of 
Edinburgh” (vol. x. 1869). In 1869, after twelve years of un- 
remitting labour, mental and bodily, Dr Stewart returned to 
England, and the G-overnment of India entrusted him with the 
preparation at Kew of a Forest Flora of Northern and Central 
India. To this great work Dr Stewart devoted a large part of his 
furlough, and he would doubtless have completed it in a satisfactory 
manner if his health had not given way. That this was the cause 
became apparent on his return to India, when, after a few months of 
office work, sickness obliged him to move from Lahore to the Hill 
Sanitarium at Dalhousie, where he died on 5th July 1873, aged 
forty-one. 
8. Obituary Notice of John Hunter. By J. T. Bottomly, 
Esq., The University, Glasgow. 
Mr John Hunter was born in Belfast on the 23d of March 1843. 
He was the only son of the late Dr Hunter of Belfast, a gentleman 
who, though he was for many years before his death unable to 
move, was highly esteemed as a consulting physician. Mr Hunter, 
till he entered Queen’s College, Belfast, received his education 
chiefly at home. During his undergraduate course he was distin- 
guished in nearly every branch of science ; and in 1863 he obtained 
the degree of B.A. in the Queen’s University, with first-class 
honours in Chemistry and Experimental Physics. With similar 
distinction he took the degree of M.A. the following year. In the 
interval he held the Senior Scholarship in Chemistry in Belfast, a 
scholarship which is competed for annually by Bachelors in Arts 
of the Queen’s University ; and it was during this year that he 
published his first paper on the “ Absorption of Gases by Charcoal.” 
In 1865 he became assistant to Dr Andrews, the Professor of 
Chemistry in Queen’s College, Belfast, an office which he held till 
1870, when he was elected Professor of Mathematics and Natural 
Philosophy in King’s College, Windsor, Nova Scotia. At Windsor 
his health suffered severely from the climate ; and, feeling unable 
to encounter a second winter, h$ resigned his professorship, and 
returned home in the autumn of 1871. 
