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JOURNAL OP THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Botanical Congress at St. Petersburg; and in 1873 be undertook a 
journey to California for the purpose of scientific collection and 
mining investigation. During his absence he wrote many letters 
of a most deeply interesting nature, which it is hoped may some 
day be made public, affording as they do much valuable infor¬ 
mation on the botany, entomology, and geology of the districts he 
visited. 
His last illness was short and severe; his end was most 
unexpected, and the sad news was received by the members of the 
various Committees, which met on the 15th January, with a shock 
of deep concern, for he had been present at the very last meeting, 
to all appearance well and hearty, though evidently fagged with 
hard work. Sir Joseph Hooker, on the part of the Scientific 
Committee, undertook to write a letter of condolence to the 
bereaved widow; and a minute expressive of their sense of the 
great loss they had sustained by the death of so valued and active 
a member was recorded. The subject was also alluded to at the 
Bellows’ Meeting on the same afternoon, when a resolution was 
unanimously adopted recognising his services and marking the 
Society’s deep sense of the loss of so esteemed a member. 
