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feet from the mouth, backwards. On its upper jaw, just above the 

 mouth, is a horny and semicalcareous irregular plate. On various 

 parts of the body were specimens of the flat white parasite figured in 

 * Yarrell,' and attached to the gills were several of Cecrops Latreillii 

 (Leach)*. 



Liver very large, and of a gamboge-yellow. Heart half the size of 

 a man's fist. The contents of the stomach could not be judged of. 



I bought a specimen of the Fork-beard in Plymouth Market last 

 June. It, with the last-named specimen, is in our collection. 



J. C. Bellamy, Curator. 



OBITUARY. 



J. C. LOUDON, ESQ., F.L.S. 



There are few that have lately passed away from amongst us whose 

 loss will be more deeply felt than that of Mr. Loudon, who lately 

 expired at his house in Porchester-terrace, Bayswater. He died 

 of disease of the lungs, which had wasted him to a shadow ; but he 

 retained the possession of his clear distinctive faculties to the very 

 last, and walked from the drawing-room to the bed-room, almost 

 without assistance, a short time before he died. 



The number and magnitude of his works are almost without pa- 

 rallel, and excite absolute astonishment when we consider the painful 

 disadvantages under which he laboured, having lost one arm, and 

 being deprived to a great extent of the use of the other ; but nothing 

 damped his desire of usefulness, or checked his industry. He has 

 been known, while walking up and down his study, to dictate to two 

 amanuenses, and that so clearly and continuously that their pens 

 were never at rest. In all Mr. Loudon's great agricultural, and 

 especially his floricultural works, during the last twelve years of his 

 life, he was assisted by his wife. Mrs. Loudon was favourably known 

 to the literary world, before her marriage, as the author of one or 

 two novels ; but she made an easy transit from the ideal to the real, 

 and also accompanied her husband on his visits, when occupied in 

 laying out the landscape gardens of many of the nobility, both in 

 England and his native Scotland. Early and late — nearly day and 

 night — he laboured, and his mind was as independent as indus- 

 trious. During his last absence from home a number of individuals 

 connected with horticulture in its various and beautiful branches 

 assembled together, determined to show their respect for Mr. Lou- 

 don, and their appreciation of his works, by presenting him with 



* Mr. Yarrell, to whom I communicated a specimen, writes me thus : — 

 " Your specimen is a female, and, when I first looked at her, she had se- 

 veral young ones crawling about the hollow cavity of the under surface of 

 the thorax ; these young ones varied in size, and resembled Acari in their 

 general appearance." This specimen, prior to being sent to London, had 

 been soaked two or three days in spirit, and had lain dead at the taxider- 

 *'* mist's for several days previously ! 



