the immortal Cook. De Lille closes his _Jardins_ with a most generous
and animated invocation to the memory of this intrepid navigator.

WILLIAM FALCONER. The portrait of this eminent physician of Bath, is
engraved by Fitler, from a painting by Daniel, of Bath, in 1791. It is
prefixed to his "Influence of the Passions upon Disorders." He died in
August, 1824, at the age of eighty-one. He published,

1. Essay on the Preservation of the Health of Persons employed in
Agriculture, 1s. Bath, 1789.

2. Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History; selected from
the principal writers of antiquity. 1793. 4to.

3. Remarks on the Influence of Climate, Situation, Nature of
Country, &c. The Encyclop. of Gardening calls this "a most
interesting work." A writer in the New Monthly Mag. says "it
displays an almost unlimited extent of learning and research."

4. An Historical View of the Taste for Gardening and Laying out
Grounds among the Nations of Antiquity. 8vo. 1s. 6d. 1783. _Dilly._

A list of his other works (nearly twenty in number), may be seen in the
Dictionary of Living Authors, or in vol. xii. of the New Monthly Mag.;
which last work says that the late Lord Thurlow, at whose table he was
almost a constant guest, declared that "he never saw such a man; that he
knew every thing, and knew it better than any one else." Neither this
last publication, nor Dr. Watts in his Bibl. Brit. mention Dr.
Falconer's Historical View of the Taste for Gardening.

WILLIAM CURTIS. This honest, much-esteemed, and inoffensive man, though
so deservedly eminent as a botanist, published only the following work
on horticulture:--"Directions for Cultivating the Crambe Maritima, or
Sea-kale for the Use of the Table." A new edition, enlarged, with three
engravings. 2s. 6d. Mr. Loudon says, that this pamphlet has done more to
recommend the culture of _sea-kale_ and diffuse the knowledge of it,
than all his predecessors. Nearly three pages of the Encyclopaedia are
enriched with the result of all that has appeared on the cultivation of
this vegetable by English, Scotch, or French writers.

The botanical works of Mr. Curtis have long been held in high esteem.
The first number of his Flora Londinensis appeared in 1777. He commenced
his Botanical Magazine in 1787. His Observations on British Grasses,
appeared in a second edition, with coloured plates, in 1790. His
Lectures were published after hi