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MEMOIR OF DR. LINDLEY. 
Company of Apothecaries, increased attention was given to the science, which 
has since terminated in the requiring it as a distinct branch of education by the 
medical corporations. Up to the present time Dr. Lindley’s has been an increas¬ 
ing class at University College, and the influence of his instructions upon so large 
a body of intelligent young men cannot but produce an important effect on the 
cultivation of Botany in this country. Already many of his pupils have 
distinguished themselves by their original researches and writings, amongst 
whom we may mention Messrs. Griffiths, Slack,* and Carpenter. 
In 1831 he was appointed Professor of Botany to the Royal Institution of 
Great Britain, where another opportunity was afforded him of insisting on and 
extending those views inculcated in so many of his works. 
On the death of the late Professor Burnett —whose early career promised so 
much usefulness in the spread and advancement of the science of Botany—Dr. 
Lindley was requested to become Lecturer to the Society of Apothecaries. This 
office he accepted, and in the Summer of 1835 commenced his lectures in the 
Botanic Gardens at Chelsea. Medical students from all schools are allowed to 
attend these gardens, and the interest excited by the appointment was attested 
by their crowded attendance during the delivery of the first course of lectures. 
Hence a large proportion of the future medical practitioners of Great Britain are 
brought under the immediate instructions of Dr. Lindley. This cannot fail to 
produce important effects on the student and "those by whom he is taught,—on 
the former by bringing him into a situation where he is alone likely to gain an 
interest in the study of Botany, and on the latter by providing him with attentive 
pupils to excite his zeal and industry, instead of the listless loungers upon 
half-empty benches, whose only object is to obtain a certificate of “ Diligently 
attended.” 
Amongst the public offices of Dr. Lindley, is that of Assistant-Secretary to 
the Horticultural Siciety, which he has filled since the year 1822. Having the 
gardens of the Society at Chiswick under his superintendence, this appointment 
has afforded him an opportunity of practically applying the principles of Botany 
to increasing and extending the various luxuries and comforts of life derived 
from the vegetable kingdom. The various arrangements of these gardens carried 
on under his inspection, and the results of many valuable series of experiments 
which have been published in the Transactions of the Society, are proofs of the 
advantages derived from his labours by practical Horticulture. 
It is not at all probable that labours so extensive and useful as those of Dr. 
Lindley would be confined to his own country, and we accordingly find that 
* This amiable and talented naturalist—an early friend of the Editor’s—unfoftunately lost his 
life on the Continent some time since, while bathing. 
