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viously, in 1812, become a Fellow of the Eoyal Society, and had 

 given to the world an English translation of Buffon's " Natural 

 History," and a work entitled " Zoography, or the Beauties of 

 Nature displayed in select Descriptions from the Animal and 

 Vegetable, with additions from the Mineral Kingdom," in three 

 vols. 8vo. 1807-1811. In 1815 he published the first volume of 

 a work, entitled " Greneral Conchology ;" but this intended work 

 subsequently gave place to his " Index Testaceologicus, or a Cata- 

 logue of Shells, British and Foreign, arranged according to the 

 Linnean System," commenced in 1818, and completed in 1828. 

 Of this work, containing about 3000 coloured figures of shells, 

 " a new and entirely revised edition " was published by Mr. S. 

 Hanley in 1855. The success of this ' Conchological Index ' in- 

 duced Mr. Wood to publish, in 1839, on a similar plan, an " Index 

 Entomologicus, or a complete illustrated Catalogue, consisting of 

 1944 figures, of the Lepidopterous Insects of Great Britain," of 

 which also a second edition, " with figures of the newly discovered 

 species," was given in 1852 by Mr. Westwood. In the meantime 

 he had also published "Illustrations of the Linnean Genera 

 Insects," in two vols. 12mo, London, 1821 ; a new edition of 

 Gustavus Brander's " Fossilia Hantoniensia," 4to, London, 1829 ; 

 and three 4to parts of "A complete Illustration of the British 

 Freshwater Fishes, with some account of their Habits." He 

 quitted business in 1840, and since that time has continued to 

 reside at Ruislip in Middlesex, at which place he died on the 26th 

 of May, 1857, in the 84th year of his age, and in the 60th year of 

 his Fellowship of the Linnean Society. Since his retirement from 

 business he has been but rarely seen among us ; but this brief out- 

 line of his industrious and useful career will recall to many of our 

 older Fellows the remembrance of an honourable and estimable 

 man, who laboured earnestly for the promotion of natural science. 

 I[e has left a son, who succeeded him in business, but also retired 

 a few years ago, and who, it is but justice to add, has considerable 

 talent as an artist, and had no small share in the production of 

 some of his father's publications, and especially of the two Indexes 

 above-mentioned. 



Among Foreign Membees our losses have been heavy, amount- 

 ing to no less than five : — 



Charles Jules Laurent Lucien Bonaparte was the eldest son of 

 Lucien Bonaparte, brother of the first Napoleon, by his second 

 marriage with Alexandrine, de Bleschamps. He was born at Paris 



