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merits procured him the rank of Regius Professor
at Oxford; he became a Fellow of the Royal So-
ciety in 1789, and was among the first members
of the Linnean Society, founded in 1788. Yet,
though placed, a few years after his return, in very
affluent circumstances, and though his necessary
attention to his landed property and to agricul-
tural pursuits, of which he was passionately fond,
might have been expected in some measure to turn
him aside from his botanical labours, he steadily
persisted in the pursuit of his chosen object, to
which he finally sacrificed life itself. ‘ No name,”
says his biographer, Sir James Edward Smith, “ has
a fairer claim to botanical immortality among the
martyrs of the science than that of Sibthorp.”

In the month of March 1794 he again set out
from London, on his second tour to Greece. He
travelled to Constantinople in the train of Mr
Liston, ambassador to the Porte, and was accom-
panied by Francis Borone, a Milanese servant, as a
botanical assistant. They reached the Turkish
capital in the month of May, where they were
joined by Mr Hawkins, a friend of Dr Sibthorp’s.
Writing to Sir J. EK. Smith from Pera, under date
August 9, the Doctor says: “I arrived very ill
with fever and colic; but, as soon as my health
permitted, I visited the shores of the Bosphorus,

the woods of Belgrade, and the sands of Domusderi,
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