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was the younger son of Thomas second Lord Grantham, and was 

 born in London, on the 30th of October, 1782. From Harrow, 

 where be was contemporary with Peel, Aberdeen, Palmerston, 

 and Byron, he proceeded to St. John's College, Cambridge, where 

 he graduated as M.A. in 1 802. In 1804 he became Private Secre- 

 tary to his relative Lord Hardwicke, then Lord Lieutenant of 

 Ireland ; and from this time forward filled a variety of difierent 

 offices in successive Administrations, until on the death of Can- 

 ning in 1827, he became for a short time Prime Minister. On 

 the formation of the Ministry of Earl G-rey in 1830, he again re- 

 turned to office, and continued, with brief intervals of retirement, 

 to fill various cabinet offices, until the close of Sir Eobert Peel's 

 Administration in 1846, when he finally retired into private life. 

 His Lordship married in 1814 Lady Sarah Hobart, only daughter 

 of the late Earl of Buckinghamshire, by whom he leaves one only 

 surviving child, Greorge Erederick Samuel, the present Earl, also 

 a respected Eellow of our Society, of the Council of which he has 

 been an active member. The late Earl became Eellow of the 

 Linnean Society in 1852, and died on the 28th of January in the 

 present year, at his seat at Putney Heath, in the 77th year of his 

 age. 



Three years ago it was my duty to record the death of an old 

 and valued Eellow of the Society, the late Mr. Thomas Salter, of 

 Poole, in Dorsetshire, and to offer a slight tribute of respect to 

 his memory. I have now to add to our list of deaths for the 

 present year the name of his eldest son, Thomas Bell Salter, Esq., 

 M.D., of Byde, in the Isle of Wight, an amiable and accomplished 

 man, a distinguished medical practitioner, an able naturalist, and 

 nearly connected with u^ as the sister's son of our excellent 

 President. He was a Doctor of Medicine of the University of 

 Edinburgh, Licentiate of the Eoyal College of Surgeons of that 

 City, Member of the Eoyal College of Surgeons of England, and 

 for twenty years practised at Eyde, where he was one of the ori- 

 ginal promoters of the Infirmary, to which he gave his gratuitous 

 services up to the time of his death. In early life he commenced 

 the formation of a Herbarium both of British and Eoreign Plants, 

 which became of considerable extent, and which his brother. Dr. 

 James Salter, E.L.S., has since his death liberally presented to the 

 Linnean Society. This herbarium, among other valuable plants, 

 is particularly rich in the forms of the genus Bub us, on which Dr. 

 Bell Salter particularly w^orked, and in regard to which he was 

 regarded as the highest authority. His papers on Botanical sub- 



