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the past year, the Secretary read the following notices of some of 

 them : — 



The Rev. James Dalton was educated at Clare Hall, in the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge, where he took his Bachelor's degree in 1787, 

 and that of Master of Arts in 1790. He was much attached to bo- 

 tanical pursuits, and well acquainted with our native plants, and 

 especially with the Carices and Mosses. Among the latter he was 

 the first discoverer of several new species, and his name has been 

 commemorated by Sir W. J. Hooker in a well-known genus. Many 

 of his observations are recorded by Sir James E. Smith in his * En- 

 glish Botany ' and * English Flora.' He became a Fellow of this 

 Society in 1803 ; and in 1805 he was presented by the King to the 

 living of Croft in Yorkshire, where he continued to reside until his 

 decease, on the 2nd of January in the present year, at the age of 78. 



John Latham, M.D., formerly a physician of considerable emi- 

 nence and extensive practice, was born at Gawsworth in the county 

 of Chester, Dec. 29, 1761, and educated at Brasen-nose College, 

 Oxford, where he took his Doctor's degree in 1788. In the same 

 year he established himself in London, and became successively 

 physician to the Middlesex, the Magdalen, and St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospitals, and Fellow and President of the Royal College of Physi- 

 cians. He was elected a Fellow of this Society on the 16th of March 

 1790, and was consequently its senior member. He died on the 

 20th of April in the present year at Brad wall Hall, Cheshire, to 

 which place he had retired from the fatigues of practice in 1829. 

 His published works are wholly medical. 



John Gage Rokewode, Esq., for many years Director of the Society 

 of Antiquaries, was the fourth and youngest son of Sir Thomas Gage 

 of Hengrave Hall in the county of Suffolk, the sixth baronet of that 

 family, and brother of the late Sir Thomas Gage, also a Fellow of 

 our Society and a botanist of considerable attainments, especially in 

 his knowledge of the family of Lichens. On the death of his second 

 brother, he assumed the name of Rokewode and entered into posses- 

 sion of Coldham Hall and the property belonging to it, in pursuance 

 of a settlement executed in 1728 by one of his ancestors. Mr. Gage 

 Rokewode was devoted from an early period of his life to the study 

 of the antiquities of his native country, to the illustration of which 

 his numerous publications in the * Archseologia,' in the * Vetusta 

 Monumenta,' and in various separate works, have greatly contri- 

 buted. 



The Society has also to regret the loss of two of its Associates, 



Mr. Daniel Cooper, whose sudden and melancholy death was no- 

 ticed in the * Annals' for January last; and 



Mr. Alexander Matthews, an active and intelligent botanical col- 

 lector, who died at Chachapoyas on the Andes of Peru, on the 24th of 

 November 1841. He had been engaged for many years in forming 

 and transmitting to Europe collections of Peruvian and Chilian plants ; 

 and was the first discoverer of many species of great interest and 

 beauty, which have been described, from the specimens gathered by 

 him, chiefly in Sir W. J. Hooker's various publications, in which also 



