OF

JOHN MARTYN, F.R.S.,

AND OF

THOMAS MARTYN, B.D., F.R.S., F.L.S.,

Professors of Botany

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

BY

GEORGE CORNELIUS GORHAM, B.D.,

LATE FELLOW OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

LONDON:

HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY;

DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE; EMERY, ST. NEOT'S; AND IBBS, KIMBOLTON.

MDCCCXXX.

KE 35126

HARVARD COLLEGE

JUN 3 1939

LIBRARY

Elist fund

LONDON:

GAULTER, Printer, Lovell's Court Paternoster-Row

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ΤΟ

THE REV. JOHN KING MARTYN, M. A.,

OF PERTENHALL, BEDFORDSHIRE,

THESE MEMOIRS

OF

TWO MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY,

NOT LESS DISTINGUISHED

BY

THEIR PRIVATE VIRTUES

THAN BY

THEIR SCIENTIFIC PURSUITS,

ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY

HIS AFFECTIONATE SON-IN-LAW

G. C. GORHAM.

PREFACE.

THE Compiler of the following Memoirs does not pretend to offer any apology for having added a volume to the stock of our national Biography. If he have but performed his task with moderate care, he may, without presumption, calculate on the thanks of many readers, who, he may fairly expect, will be interested in an account of the lives and writings of two eminent British Botanists. There are not many instances in which it can be said, that two individuals, members of the same family, cultivated the same science with distinguished ability, for more than a century;—perhaps there is none in which it can be added, that the Father transmitted to the

For 107 years-from 1718 to 1825.