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high military office during a period more arduous than any 

 other in the modern history of Europe. But on topics so re- 

 mote from our habitual pursuits it would be useless for me to 

 dilate. Justice is done to His Royal Highness by the high 

 station which his memory holds in the opinion and in the esti- 

 mation of the public. 



We have also to lament the loss of two of our Fellows, con- 

 nected with the Society in the relation of Vice Presidents — 

 the Earl of Morton, and the Bishop of Carlisle. 



The first, — in addition to his own merits possessing a strong 

 hereditary claim to our regards, as the descendant of Lord 

 Morton who presided over the Society about sixty years ago, 

 — assisted in our labours'; and contributed his aid, with Lord 

 Macklesfield and other distinguished persons, in 1 752, to as- 

 similate our Style or Calendar to that used by the continental 

 nations of Europe. To the individual of whom death has now 

 deprived us, we owe much gratitude for his uninterrupted 

 countenance and attention during a long series of years : and 

 in the Transactions for 1821 will be found a communication, 

 by Lord Morton, of a curious fact in physiology. 



Dr. Samuel Goodenough, late bishop of Carlisle, has ever 

 sustained the character of a sound and elegant scholar. En- 

 trusted with the education of distinguished personages, and 

 having qualified them for the first situations in the state, he 

 fairly and honourably ascended to the summit of ecclesiastical 

 preferment. To classical and theological learning, Dr. Good- 

 enough added a very intimate knowledge of natural history, 

 as is manifested by a communication to the Linnean Society, 

 where his labours have thrown a steady light over an exten- 

 sive genus of aquatic plants, left by all former botanists in ob- 

 scurity and confusion. The memory of Dr. Goodenough will 

 long be cherished with affection and with esteem by all who 

 had the honour of his acquaintance either in his public or in 

 his private life. 



If it were usual to advert in a particular manner to each 

 Member of whom the Society has been deprived within the 

 last year, there has not been read perhaps the name of a 

 single person, on whom one might not dilate with a melan- 

 choly pleasure and satisfaction. — Mr. Canning, pre-eminent 

 throughout the world ; The Bishop of Winchester, senior 

 Wrangler of his year, and tutor to Mr. Pitt; Mr. Cline; 

 The Marquis of Hastings ; The Duke of Gordon; — all men of 

 literature or science. But as these and other individuals have 

 not been connected in any peculiar relation to the Society, nor 

 shared in its labours, we have only to mention them with re- 



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