enabled him to triumph over the attacks of disease, and the energy of his mind was so great, that the first days of convalescence found him again as actively employed as ever.

“On his return to Calcutta in August 1841, after visiting Simla and the Nerbudda, he was appointed to the medical duties at Malacca: but Dr. Wallich having proceeded to the Cape for the re-establishment of his health, Mr. Griffith was recalled in August 1842 to take, during his absence, the superintendence of the Botanic Garden near Calcutta, in conjunction with which he also discharged the duties of Botanical Professor in the Medical College to the great advantage of the students.  Towards the end of 1844 Dr. Wallich resumed his functions at the Botanic Garden.  In September Mr. Griffith married Miss Henderson, the sister of the wife of his brother, Captain Griffith, and on the 11th of December he quitted Calcutta to return to Malacca, where he arrived on the 9th of January in the present year.  On the 31st of the same month he was attacked by hepatitis, and notwithstanding every attention on the part of the medical officer who had officiated during his absence, and who fortunately still remained, he gradually sunk under the attack, which terminated fatally on the 9th of February.  “His constitution,” says his attached friend, Mr. MacClelland, in a letter to Dr. Horsfield, “seemed for the last two or three years greatly shattered, his energies alone remaining unchanged.  Exposure during his former journeys and travels laid the seeds of his fatal malady in his constitution, while his anxiety about his pursuits and his zeal increased.  He became care-worn and haggard in his looks, often complaining of anomalous symptoms, marked by an extreme rapidity of pulse, in consequence of which he had left off wine for some years past, and was obliged to observe great care and attention in his diet.  In Affghanistan he was very nearly carried off by fever, to which he had been subject in his former travels in Assam.  No government ever had a more devoted or zealous servant, and I impute much of the evil consequences to his health to his attempting more than the means at his disposal enabled him to accomplish with justice to himself.”

“The most important of Mr. Griffith’s published memoirs are contained in the Transactions of the Linnæan Society.  Previous to starting on his mission to Assam, he communicated to the Society the first two of a series of valuable papers on the development of the vegetable ovulum in Santalum, Loranthus, Viscum, and some other plants, the anomalous structure of which appeared calculated to throw light on this still obscure and difficult subject.  These papers are entitled as follows:—

1.  On the Ovulum of Santalum album.  Linn. Trans. xviii.  p. 57.

2.  Notes on the Development of the Ovulum of Loranthus and Viscum; and on the mode of Parasitism of these two genera.  Linn. Trans. xviii. p. 71.

3.  On the Ovulum of Santalum, Osyris, Loranthus and Viscum.  Linn. Trans. xix. p. 171.

“Another memoir, or rather series of memoirs, “On the Root-Parasites, referred by authors to Rhizantheæ, and on various plants related to them,” occupies the first place in the Part of our Transactions which is now in the press, with the exception of the portion relating to Balanophoreæ, unavoidably deferred to the next following Part.  In this memoir, as in those which preceded it, Mr. Griffith deals with some of the most obscure and difficult questions of vegetable physiology, on which his minute and elaborate researches into the singularly anomalous structure of the curious plants referred to will be found to have thrown much new and valuable light.

“In India, on his return from his Assamese journey, he published in the ‘Transactions of the Agricultural Society of Calcutta,’ a ‘Report on the Tea-plant of Upper Assam,’ which, although for reasons stated avowedly