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drawers and boxes, so that they require no attention, and no observa¬ 
tions in these notes on florists’ flowers.—D., Deal. 
THE REV. M. J. BERKELEY, F.R.S. 
The announcement of the death of our revered friend Mr. Berkeley 
just as we were going to press last week gave us no time to furnish a 
portrait of him ; but we have now the pleasure of presenting one which 
represents him as he was in recent years while still in the possession of 
those intellectual powers for which he was eminently distinguished. 
themselves into a committee to secure a painted portrait, to be presented 
to the Linnean Society. The appeal for subscriptions to the scientific 
world was quickly responded to, and a very excellent portrait, painted 
1 y Mr. J. T. Peele, was the result. The presentation to the Society was 
made in the name of the subscribers by Sir Joseph Hooker, and a replica 
was painted for Mr. Berkeley’s family. 
Mr. Berkeley was buried in the churchyard of Sibbertoft on Saturday 
last, the 3rd inst. 
All who have known the late Rev. M. J. Berkeley, or have seen any 
The portrait is from the pencil of Mr. Worthington G. Smith, the 
talented botanical artist and faithful follower of Mr. Berkeley in 
f ungological investigations ; and we may well believe that the sym¬ 
pathetic spirit, as well as the genius of the artist, combined in producing 
a portrait which so faithfully recalls the noble features of one of our 
■most distinguished, as he was one of the most modest, of our scientific 
men. 
A few years ago some of Mr. Berkeley’s personal fi'iends formed 
of his writings, would rea 1 the news of his death in last week’s issue 
with unfeigned regret. It has been my privilege during the last ten or 
twelve years to have spent many a pleasant hour on several occasions 
in his company, in walking and admiring plants and trees that were 
known to him thirty years or more previously, and he would point out 
the progress made in many of them, n jtably Coniferous trees, many of 
which he remembered when planted, and had watched their progress, till 
they have now made handsome specimens from 50 to 70 feet in height. 
