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COLLECTIONS AN1 RECOLLECTIONS.A Pair of Eccentrics.—The celebrated Dr. Humphrey Sibthorpe and Denys Rolle were both eccentric characters ; they were great botanists, great travellers, great walkers, and great talkers. They both lived almost sub dio. They died in the same year; Denys Rolle died under a tree. The were both fond of accumulating, yet parted with their acquisitions without a murmur. Rolle readily abandoned his estate in Florida on which he had laid out -£40,000; and Dr. Sibthorpe scarcely expressed sorrow in losing out of the physic garden at Oxford, the plant which Linnaeus called after his name, Sibthorpia Europaaa. They were both kind-hearted, and never happier than when contributing to the enjoyment of all the creatures within their reach. Had Dr. Sibthorpe been placed with Denys Rolle in the forests of America, amidst beasts, birds, and reptiles, the wild horses would have followed Mm likewise, attracted and tamed by his benevolence; the bears would have courted his companionship ; the dogs would have fawned at his feet; the cranes would have uathered round him; and the most venomous reptiles have reposed under his pillow. Such at least was the case with Denys Rolle, as stated by himself.
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Gardeners Gazette
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jan 08, 1842
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