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1815 he was admitted a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 ill London; in 1827 M.D. of the University of Edinburgh; and 

 in 1828 he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He was for 

 many years surgeon of the North Devon Militia, and was one of 

 the founders of the Plymouth Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye, 

 of which he continued for thirty -three years to act, first as surgeon, 

 and afterwards as physician, and to which he bequeathed a con- 

 siderable legacy. The Plymouth Athenaeum also owed much to 

 his exertions : he was for many years actively employed as its 

 Secretary, and was also a Vice-President, and for a time President. 

 Here he lectured repeatedly on a great variety of scientific sub- 

 jects. Up to the last he continued to devote his attention to its 

 Museum as Curator of the Greological Collection, the arrangement 

 of which was among his latest acts. He attached himself also 

 more especially to the study of zoology in several of its depart- 

 ments, and contributed numerous papers to scientific periodicals 

 on zoological and geological subjects. Those enumerated in the 

 ' Bibliographia Greologiae et Zoologiae ' of the Eay Society are as 

 follows : — 



1. On a new British Fish. — Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vol. i. p. 17. 



2. On the Birds of Devonshire.— JJic?. pp. 113, 176, 227, 319^ 



361. 



3. On the Change of Plumage in the Gruillemot. — Ihid. p. 607. 



4. On the occurrence of the Teredo navalis and Limnoria tere- 



hrans in Plymouth Harbour. — Ihid. vol. ii. p. 206. 



5. Notice on the Pilot-fish {Naucrates ductor), — Ann. Sf Mag. 



Nat. Hist. vol. v^iii. p. 316. 



6. Catalogue of the Malacostracous Crustacea of South Devon. — 



Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vol. ii. p. 284. 



7. On the Discovery of Organic E-emains in a raised Beach in the 



Limestone Cliff under the Hoe at Plymouth. — JRep. Brit. 

 Assoc. 1841, Sect. p. 62, &c. 



In the pursuit of these various branches of study, he was in fre- 

 quent correspondence with Yarrell, De la Beche, Buckland and 

 others, to whom he communicated many important facts. For 

 the last four years of his life he was a Magistrate of his native 

 town ; and the estimation in which he was there held may be 

 judged from the fact that his funeral was escorted by a numerous 

 attendance of all the public bodies, the Members of the Medical 

 Society, the Literary Institution, &c. He died at his residence in 

 Athenaeum Terrace, on the 17th of July, 1858, at the age of 64. 



The Bight Hon, Frederick John Bohinson^ first Earl of Ripon, 



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