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hoong, the district of Mogam, and from the tract of the Irawaddi 

 between Mogam and Ava. Even after making large deductions from 

 the sum-total of these numbers on account of the forms common to 

 two or more of the collections, the amount of materials thus brought 

 together by one man must be regarded as enormous. The time was 

 approaching when he believed that he could render these vast col- 

 lections subservient to the great end which he had in view. He 

 had some time since issued an invitation to many eminent botanists 

 in Europe to co-operate with him in the elaboration of particular 

 families ; and he purposed after a few years' additional residence ii^ 

 India to return to England with all his materials, and to occupy 

 himself in giving to the world the results of his unwearied labours. 

 But this purpose was not destined to be fulfilled, his collections 

 have passed by his directions into the hands of the East India Com- 

 pany, and there can be no doubt, from the well-known liberality of 

 the Directors, which this Society in particular has so often expe- 

 rienced, that they will be so disposed of by that enlightened body as 

 to fulfil at once the demands of science and the last wishes of the 

 faithful and devoted servant by whom they were formed. It is hoped 

 too that the most important of his unpublished materials, both in 

 drawings and manuscripts, will be given to the world in a manner 

 worthy of the author and of the rank in science which he filled. 



John Lewis Guillemard, J^^^g'., was well known to this Society as a 

 very amiable and worthy man, who took considerable interest in the 

 pursuits of science. In early life he resided in America, and was 

 chosen as their umpire by the British and American Commissioners 

 for the arrangement of the debts due by American citizens to British 

 subjects. He died at his house in Gower-street in December last at 

 a very advanced age. 



Robert Hills, Esq., was an artist of great and original talent, 

 especially in the delineation of deer and antelopes ; and some of his 

 labours in this department of his art have ornamented our own 

 Transactions and those of the Zoological Society. 



Joseph Hurlock, Esq. 



Sir John Jamison, M.D. 



John Leonard Knapp, Esq., one of the oldest Fellows of the Society, 

 was bom at Shenley in Buckinghamshire, of which parish his father, 

 the Rev. Primatt Knapp, was rector, on the 9th of May 1767. He 

 was educated at the grammar-school of Thame in Oxfordshire, but 

 being destined for the navy, left school at an early age. The sea, 

 however, disagreeing with his health, he left the navy and after- 

 wards served both in the Hereford and Northampton Militia, in the 

 latter of which he commanded a troop. Previous to the death of his 

 father he resided principally at Powick near Worcester, from which 

 place he usually made botanical excursions during the summer 

 months, one of which extended into Scotland, where, in company 

 with the late Mr. George Don, he collected several of the rarer 

 grasses figured in his ' Gramina Britannica, or Representations of 

 the British Grasses, with Remarks and occasional Descriptions,' pub- 

 lished in 4to in 1804. This volume contains coloured figures of 1 19 



