Zoological Society. 425 



He was admired for his varied accomplishments and for his depth of 

 intellect, and loved for his amiable disposition and agreeable manners. 

 He died at St. Petersburgh on the 12th of March 1844. 



And lastly we have to lament the deatli of one Associate. 



Thomas Charles Hope, M.D., F.R.S., V.P.R.S.E. S^c, Professor of 

 Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh. 



His earliest contribution to the Transactions of the Royal Society 

 of Edinburgh was " An Account of a Mineral from Strontian, and of 

 a peculiar species of Earth which it contains," published in the third 

 and fourth volumes. But his most important researches were on the 

 subject of Heat, and on the Phsenomena of Freezing, an object which 

 occupied his attention almost to the period of his death, his last com- 

 munication to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, read on the 1st of 

 May 1843, being "An Attempt to explain the Phsenomena of the 

 Freezing- cavern at Orenburg." On the 3rd of April in the same 

 year he had laid before the same Society a paper entitled " Chemical 

 Observations on the Flowers of the Camellia Japonica, Magnolia 

 grandifiora and Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum ; and on three proxi- 

 mate principles which they contain," thus connecting his later che- 

 mical with his earlier botanical pursuits. 



Dr. Hope was the oldest surviving Member of the Linnean Society, 

 having been elected an Associate on the 18th of March 1788. In 

 the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh, and in 1810 of the Royal Society of London. In 1843, he 

 found himself unequal to the continuance of his lectures, which were 

 delivered for him by Dr. Traill, and he shortly afterwards resigned 

 the Chemical Chair. He died on the 13th of June 1844, having nearly 

 completed his 78th year. 



At the election which subsequently took place, the Lord Bishop of 

 Norwich was re-elected President ; Edward Forster, Esq., Treasurer ; 

 John Joseph Bennett, Esq., Secretary ; and Richard Taylor, Esq., 

 Under-Secretary. The following five Fellows were elected into the 

 Council in the room of others going out : viz. C. C. Babington, Esq., 

 Secretary of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ; Thomas Bell, 

 Esq., Professor of Zoology in King's College, London ; Bracy Clark, 

 Esq. ; Edwin John Quekett, Esq. ; and Richard Horsman Solly, Esq. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



July 8, 1845. — William Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 Mr. Gould exhibited to the Meeting five new species of Mam- 

 mals : — 



Mus LINE0LATU3. M. vcllerc longo, molli fusco-cinereo corpore 

 subths cinerascenti-albo indistincte fiavo-lavato ; auribus mediocri- 

 bus extus pills nigris postice cinerascentibus ves litis ; pedibus albis ; 

 caudd albd suprh nigrescentibus. unc. lin. 



Longitude ab apice rostri ad caudse basin. ... 5 4 



caudcE 4 5 



■ ab apice rostri ad basin auris .... 1 2 



— — — — auris 7^ 



; tarsi digitorumque 1 2|- 



Ann. ^ Mag, N. Hist. Vol. xvi. 2 H 



