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liim to procure many specimens of new and rare objects, which he 

 freely imparted to naturalists and natural-history institutions 

 both at home and abroad. In 1836 he joined the Edinburgh 

 Botanical Society, and acted as its Local Secretary for Griasgow ; 

 and in 1841 he entered the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, and 

 took an active part in promoting its welfare. He was also an 

 active promoter of various benevolent institutions, and set a noble 

 example to commercial men, by proving to them that literary and 

 scientific pursuits may be made perfectly compatible with the 

 utmost regularity in carrying on the concerns of an extensive 

 business. In the year 1855 he became a Pellow of the Linnean 

 Society ; and in the same year, when the Meeting of the British 

 Association last took place in Glasgow, was appointed one of the 

 Local Secretaries. His successful exertions to render the meeting 

 creditable to Glasgow, to add to the comfort of those who visited 

 it, and to make all the objects of scientific interest easily accessible 

 to them, called forth the warmest commendations ; but they ap- 

 pear, by overtaxing his energies, to have assisted in calling into 

 action a cancerous or fungous disease of the face, which speedily 

 assumed a malignant character, and to which, after some months 

 of severe suffering, he fell a premature victim. He died at the 

 house of his brother at PoUockshields, on the 24th of June last, 

 in the 42nd year of his age, leaving a young widow and two chil- 

 dren of tender age. His loss has been deeply felt in his native 

 city, where his excellent business habits, combined with an ardent 

 love of science, and a strong desire to render himself useful in all 

 benevolent, literary, and scientific objects, had placed him among 

 the foremost men, and seemed to have prepared for him a career 

 of higher eminence and more extended usefulness. 



Rear- Admiral Philip Parker King, B.N'., F.B.S., and Member 

 of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New South Wales, was 

 the son of Philip GidleyKing, Capt.K.]N'.,who was first Governor of 

 Norfolk Island, and afterwards of New South "Wales, and who, in 

 the latter capacity, is recorded by Mr. Brown, as having " mate- 

 rially forwarded the objects of Captain Flinders' voyage," and as 

 one " to whose friendship Mr. Ferdinand Bauer and himself were 

 indebted for important assistance in their pursuits while they 

 remained in that colony." Philip Parker King was bom at Nor- 

 folk Island on the 13th of December 1793, and entered the Navy 

 in 1807 as a first-class volunteer, on board the Diana frigate, Capt. 

 Charles Grant. After eighteen months' service he obtained the 

 rank of midshipman, and served on board various ships until the 



