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illustrated. He wrote the articles ‘‘Conchology” and Entomology” in Rees’s 
Cyclopaedia. Though extremely useful at the time when they were published, 
his works perhaps exhibit more of the splendour of art than of any enlarged 
views of science. He added some species to the previously existing knowledge 
of detailed Zoology; and it is painful to reflect tliat one who had laboured so 
much in the cause of science should not have escaped the penury that too often 
waits on age. 
Henry Adolph Schrader, professor of Botany at Gottingen, author of Spici- 
legium Florce Germanicse^ 1794, and Flora Germanica, vol. 1st, 1806, and 
various essays on exotic plants. His Flora Germanica has a high reputation, 
but it only extends through the class Triandria. There is an elaborate and very 
useful list of the botanical writers of Germany at the commencement. The 
Flora Britannica of Smiih is spoken of in Germany as inferior only to the 
Flora Germanica of Schrader.* 
John Latham, M.D.—Although we have already published a brief account 
of our venerable and amiable friend at p. 56 of the present volume, we feel 
assured the following further particulars, from the pen of Dr. Boot, will be 
perused with interest. He was one of the original members of the Lin- 
nean Society, and for nearly half a century took the liveliest pleasure in 
its prosperity and advancement. This venerable man devoted himself to 
his favourite science of Ornithology, with undiminished interest, to the close 
of his long life, which was extended to his ninety-seventh year. His 
writings on Ornithology were very voluminous, and are essential to every 
student; for though his views are perhaps limited in some respects, com¬ 
pared to those of more modern authorities, he made important use of the labours 
of previous naturalists, and added many species to those formerly known. It 
was a privilege of no ordinary kind, to one who had not attained by several 
years even the moiety of the age of Dr. Latham, to see him a few years ago, at 
our anniversary dinner, triumphant in body and mind over the assaults of time ; 
and I remember looking upon him with reverence; not exclusively that becom¬ 
ing respect ever due from youth to age, whatever may be its intellectual charac¬ 
teristics ; but that mingled feeling which partly arose from the impressive con¬ 
sciousness that a life so protracted, and exhibiting so much calm assurance of 
happiness, such serenity and cheerfulness of feeling, in a scene from which so 
many of his early friends had gone for ever, bespoke a mind at peace with itself 
and the world, and afforded a lesson of what true enjoyment lies beyond even 
the Psalmist’s limit to the age of man, when time appears to have forgotten the 
good man’s claim to a better state of existence; and it was impossible not to 
*"^6 should be glad if any correspondent could favour us with the date of the demise of Dono¬ 
van and Schrader. —En. Nat. 
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