HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE HERBARIUM. 
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sportsman and botanist, and it helped him to complete his “ Flora 
of Algeria.” This work, written by him in French, was published 
at Paris in the year 1847. 
After the loss of his wife, who died in i860, Giles Munby 
returned with his family to England. He married “ en seconde 
noces ” in 1862 a daughter of Lieut. Charles Elliot Buckeridge, of 
the Madras Army, and settled at Mary Holt, near Farnham, where 
he died in 1876. He was buried in the churchyard of Rowledge, 
the parish in which Mary Holt is situate. 
A portrait of Giles Munby hangs in the galleries at Kew amongst 
those of other eminent botanists, and it may be added that Sir 
Joseph Dalton Hooker, the late Director of Kew, was a friend of 
his. His other chief friends in England were Dr. Percy, of 
Birmingham, who had been a fellow student with him at Paris ; 
and Professor Edward Forbes, whose amiable character and high 
attainments are still affectionately remembered. 
The thanks of the Society are due to Mr. A. J. Munby for the 
above information, which he communicated in 1894. It is pleasing 
to know that the herbarium contains many specimens collected by 
Mr. Giles Munby in Scotland, such as Linncea borealis , &c. 
HENRY J. WILKINSON. 
