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OBITUARY. 
notice who cannot record instances of his kindly disposition, often most 
prominently displayed to those most in need of sympathy and friendship. 
Professor Balfour, his early friend and fellow-student, has already sketched,* 
with a kindly hand, the history of his discoveries; and shown what a man 
of zeal and energy may, even in this every-day world of ours, accomplish; 
and how, independently of a high reputation, he may also win that which 
is more difficult of attainment, the love and respect of all engaged in the 
same career. 
He died at Edinburgh, on the 18th of November, 1854. 
JAMES EDWARD WINTERBOTTAM, ESQ., M.B., F.L.S., 
Was born on the 7th of April, 1803, and was educated at private schools, 
partly at Twyford, near Winchester, under Mr. Clarke and Mr. Bedford, 
successively; but principally at the Rev. Dr. Mayrick’s, at Ramsbury, in 
Wiltshire; he was entered a commoner at St. John’s College, Oxford, in 
May, 1831, and in July, 1833, took out his M.B. degree. Of independent 
fortune, well educated, well informed, possessing a mind deeply imbued 
with a love of natural history, and endowed with almost an athletic frame, 
it is no wonder, says Sir W. Hooker, that he early sought to improve his 
mind by travelling. Owing to his remarkably retiring habits, and a dis¬ 
position to avoid whatever might bring him into public notice, it would be 
impossible to do justice to his memory by stating all the services which Mr. 
Winterbottam has rendered to science. 
On the 3rd of January, 1854, he left home for Egypt, via Southampton, 
and arrived at Alexandria on the 20th; after performing a voyage up the 
Nile for a considerable distance, he returned back to Alexandria, which he 
left in an Austrian steamer on the 14th April, for Beyrout, in Syria; he 
thence started over the Lebanon range to Balbec; thence to Damascus, 
Jericho, and Jerusalem, and all the other places of sacred interest. Having 
stopped at the Dead Sea for ten days, he went on to Beersheba and to 
Gaza, and returned thence by the coast to Beyrout; and, having visited 
Tyre and Sidon, went up to “ the cedars,” and almost to the summit of 
Lebanon, about 4,000 feet above them. Returning to Beyrout, he started 
in an Austrian steamer, the Adria , for Smyrna, on his way to Constanti¬ 
nople ; but, being taken ill of diarrhoea, he was put on shore at Rhodes, on 
the 3rd of July, and died on the following day, after, it is said, six days 
illness. 
Annals of Natural History,” January, 1855. 
