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fera, and MoUusca collected by the OiEcers of H.M.S. Adventure 

 and Beagle in the years 1826-1830," Zool. Joum. v. 332 ; " Cha- 

 racters of New Grenera and Species of Birds from the Straits of 

 Magellan," Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. i. 14, 29 ; and " Observations 

 on Oceanic Birds, particularly those of the Genus Diomedea, &c.," 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. ii. 128. 



John Moore, JEsq., President of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society, of the Natural History Scciety, and of the Botanical and 

 Horticultural Society of Manchester. Of this gentleman, who 

 became a Pellow of the Linnean Society in 1826, 1 hope hereafter 

 to be able to procure some particulars ; but the very recent date 

 of his death has precluded my obtaining them in sufficient time 

 for reading on the present occasion. 



William Haseldine Pepys, JEsq., was well known as an eminent 

 cutler and maker of philosophical apparatus. His studies were 

 chiefly directed towards chemistry ; and in early life he made 

 many experiments in common with the late W. Allen, the results 

 of which were for the most part communicated to the Boyal So- 

 ciety, and appeared in the ' Philosophical Transactions.' One of 

 these papers " On the E;espiration of Birds," published in vol. 119, 

 may be more particularly mentioned here for its bearing on animal 

 physiology; as may also another memoir by Mr. Pepys alone, 

 " On the Decomposition of Sulphate of Iron by Animal Matter," 

 which appeared in the first volume of the ' Transactions of the 

 Geological Society.' He became a Eellow of the E-oyal Society in 

 1808, and of the Linnean in 1821, and was also a Eellow of the 

 Horticultural Society. His death took place at his residence in 

 Earl's Terrace, Kensington, on the 17th of August last, at the 

 age of 81. 



It will be in the recollection of many of my hearers, that at our 

 last Anniversary much anxiety was expressed respecting one of 

 our distinguished Members, Daniel Sharpe, Esq., who, four days 

 before, had been thrown from his horse in the neighbourhood of 

 Norwood, and was then labouring under the effects of a concussion 

 of the brain. For a few days he was believed to be going on fa- 

 vourably; but a sudden relapse soon put a period to the hopes 

 which were then entertained, and he died on the 31st of May last, 

 as was afterwards ascertained, from an extensive fracture of the 

 base of the skull. He was born in London in 1806 ; and was the 

 youngest of a numerous family, his mother, the sister of the poet 

 Eogers, dying a few weeks after his birth. His school education 

 was acquired at Walthamstow ; and belonging to a commercial 



