JAMESQN. Deputy Surg.-Gen.. W. Jameson, C.I.E., formerly Superintendent of Botanical Gardens in the North-West Provinces, died at Dehra Doon on March 13. Three years after his arrival in the country, in 1841, he was sent to re port on the geology of the Himalayas with a view to the discovery of the cause of the floods on the Indus. While on this expedition he was captured by the frontier tribes, and kept a prisoner until he was ransomed by the Government, who after wards appointed him Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens in these provinces. Dr. Jameson devoted his energies to the introduction of tea cultivation into the North-West and Panjab. On his retirement in 1875, Government placed on record the opinion that but for Dr. Jameson's exertions this great and important industry would have had no existence in Northern India.
JAM', the literary title of Maulana Nur-ud-Din Abdur Rahman, who was born at Jam, a small village near Herat, A.II. 817, A.D. 1401. He devoted his life to study and dissemination of the mystic doctrines of Sufi philosophy, for which, towards the end of his life, he abandoned all other occupations. He was unequalled as
grammarian, a theologian, and a poet. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the &liftman and Absal of Jami correspond in time with western medivalism, ranging from the latter part of the 11th to about the middle of the 15th century. The earlier of the two poets represented, Omar of Naishapur, in Khorasan, is said to have been a tent-maker. At all events, his takhallus, or poetical name, Khayyam, taken literally, signifies as much. Nur-ud-Din Abdur Rahman, who took the name of Jami from his birthplace, a little town of Khorasan, came into the world more than 300 years after Omar Khayyam ; but there is no such apparent chronological difference between Jami's mystical poems and the Rubaiyat, or stanzas, of Omar, as we should expect to find. The philo sophy, half-sad;\ half-merry, of both these poets is as forward an elethent of their verse as is the fertile imagination which they share by community of race.