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we find a balance in our favour increased by a considerable sum, 

 in addition to a decrease of our bonded debt to the amount of 

 £200, our association with our great progenitor the E-oyal Society, 

 and with another scientific body, with greatly increased accom- 

 modation, and the prospect of immunity from rent, — these are all 

 subjects for thankful reflection. But the retrospect of any past 

 year is necessarily of a mixed character ; it has its dark as well as 

 its bright aspect ; — and in so large a body as ours, we cannot hope 

 to meet, on the return of our anniversary, without having to look 

 back on the loss of many whom we can ill spare from amongst us. 

 Of the fifteen of our Fellows who have been removed from us by 

 death since our last annual record, there is one, honoured and 

 beloved, whom I cannot, in justice to my own feelings and yours, 

 pass over without a humble but sincere and loving tribute of 

 affectionate regret. Mr. Bennett will doubtless give you, in his 

 own effective and feeling language, a brief account of the life of 

 our deeply-lamented friend Mr. Yarrell. It is sufficient for me 

 to speak of him as my own warm-hearted and constant friend of 

 more than thirty years, — as the earnest and zealous Fellow and 

 Treasurer of this Society, — as the trutliful and acute and ac- 

 curate student and historian of nature, and as one of the most 

 kindly, sincere, single-minded and simple-hearted men that ever 

 lived. 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



The Secretary read the following notices of deceased Fellows : — 



Thomas Worthington Barlow, Esq., was a native of Cheshire, 

 and became a student of Oray's Inn. He was admitted to the 

 bar, and was for some time settled in Manchester, but a year or 

 two since he proceeded to Sierra Leone in the capacity of Queen's 

 Advocate, and died at Freetown, in that colony, on the 10th of 

 August last, at the early age of 33. Natural History, together 

 with the literary history of his native county, early attracted his 

 attention ; and he published in 1847, in a large tabular form, " A 

 Chart of British Ornithology, adapted to popular use, and dedi- 

 cated to his Fellow-Members of the Wemerian Club.*' In the 

 following year he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and in 

 1852, he printed, under the title of "The Mystic Number, a 

 glance at the System of Nature," the substance of a lecture 

 \^^ich he had delivered some years previously, and in which 



