200 DEATH OF SIBTHORP.

proceeded to Otranto, which he reached alter a
long and uncomfortable passage of twenty-four
days, during which he suffered so much exposure
and illness as to originate that disorder under
which, in a few short months, he sank to the grave.
Being obliged by the weather to put in at the little
island of Fanno, the N.E. wind, as he touchingly
said, “nursed his cough and fever.’ He was con-
fined to his bed in a miserable hovel; and after
frequent attempts to sail, he was driven back six
times by the unfavourable wind.

In the autumn of 1795 he reached England, and
died at Bath on the 8th February 1796, in the
thirty-eighth year of hisage. This ardent botanist
and estimable man deserves to rank among the
most ilustrious patrons of his favourite science,
not only for his labours during life, but for the
posthumous benefits he conferred upon it. By his
will he gave an estate in Oxfordshire to the Uni-
versity of Oxford, for the purpose of publishing his
flora Greeca in ten folio volumes, with 100 coloured
plates in each, and an edition of the same work in
octavo, without plates.

The task of editing the work was confided to the
illustrious president of the Linnean Society, who
completed six of the volumes, and the last was
published, after his death, by Mr R. Brown.