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tributed articles. In 1 8G0, some years after his father's death,
he founded the present Royal Nurseries at Waltham Cross. At
a provincial show at Manchester, in 186f), he delivered a lecture
in which he gave the results of his practice in "improving"
parsley, Brussels sprouts, asters, and hollyhocks, as well as his
roses ; this lecture forms a part of his ' Contribution to Horticultural
Literature ' in 1892, mostly reprints of his papei's. He
possessed a good collection of horticultural and scientilic works,
and was well acquainted with the old writers on gardening and
botany. He was elected a Fellow on 18th November, 1875 ; and
although he rarely attended the evening meetings, he frequently
made use of the library. [B. 1). J.]
KuDOLF Amandl's Philippi, who died in the closing hours of
23rd July, 1904, was our oldest Foreign Member, though elected
so recently as the 2nd May, 1895. He was born at Charlotteuburg
on 14th September, 1808, and received his early training, first
four years at Tverdun, then at the Berlin Gymnasium zum Grauen
Klosten ; in 1825 he entered the High School as student of
medicine, and attended the lectures of Mitsclierlicb, Link, Wiegmann,
and Alexander von Humboldt, and took his degree in the
spring of 1830, in his twenty-second year. To widen his knowledge,
he travelled south to Naples and Marseilles, visiting the
hospitals, and making acquaintance with various men of science.
In the course of his travels he explored Sicily, crossing it repeatedly,
and twice ascending Etna. He returned to Berlin in 1833, and
set himself to work up the results of his journeys. He became
Professor of Natural History and Geography in the Gewerbeschule
at Cassel in 1835, and was married in the same year to Anna
Krumwiede, but his domestic happiness was soon disturbed by
sickness. In the winter of 1836-37 he was attacked by influenza,
a consequence of which was spitting of blood in the following
summer, which obstinately resisted medical treatment in the
severe climate of Northern Germany. Accordingly, in April 1838,
he and his wife started for Italy by way of Bavaria, and they
settled for a time in Naples, where his son Friedrich, afterwards
so efficient a help to his father, was born. The pulmonary
haemorrhage gradually ceased, and his strength returned ; he was
thus able to undertake a journey through Apulia, Calabria, and
Sicily, to supplement his former observations. The homeward
round was by Marseilles, Lyons, and Switzerland.
On his return to Cassel he busied himself in issuing his travels
in Italy, and an extensive work on Mollusca, and some years passed
by quietly. The stormy years of 1848 broke up this quietude,
for though Philippi took no part in poHtical movements, he found
himself involved in the currents caused by strong passions working
in a small society. At this juncture his younger brother Bernard
begged him to come out to him in Chile, where a fresh opening for
scientific work had recently been made. After the suppression