Large numbers of our readers will, during the past week,
have heard with no ordinary regret of the death of Miss Marianne North, which took place on Saturday, August 30th. Miss North, who was born at Hastings in 1830, and who was, therefore, only sixty years old, was known to the world at large as a traveller and an artist, and to a very numerous circle of friends as also a woman of singular charm, both in mind and character. The wonderful collection of drawings of tropical plants, flowers, and trees, made during Miss North's journeys in India, the West Indies, Brazil, and Spanish South America, presented by her to the nation, and preserved at Sew, will serve as a monument of her proficiency as an artist, and as a student of natural history. The accuracy of the seven hundred paintings is so great, that Sir Joseph Hooker declared that it would be impossible to exaggerate " their usefulness and scientific importance." So numerous were Miss North's ourneye, and so large a portion of the globe did they embrace,
that it is probably safe to assert that she was the greatest woman-traveller the world has ever known.
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