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where he acquired extensive medical knowledge and experience. 

 After this he visited the Medical Schools of Paris and Germany, 

 in one of the universities of which latter he graduated as an M.D. 

 During all these professional labours his mind was not inattentive 

 to other kinds of knowledge. He was an ardent lover of nature 

 under all her forms ; but perhaps his greatest leaning to either 

 branch of Natural History was to Botany, of which he had ac- 

 quired considerable knowledge. He was elected a Eellow of the 

 Linnean Society in 1843, and about the same time the Royal 

 College of Physicians in London admitted him a Licentiate, ex 

 urhe, of their body. The time having now arrived for selecting a 

 department of his profession in which to bring his acquirements 

 to a practical use, he selected that of Psychology, with the treat- 

 ment of the insane mind. In this, both in the Metropolis and in 

 the provinces, he was eminently successful, and was much con- 

 sulted by his professional brethren. In connexion with this subject 

 he was the author of an excellent pamphlet on "The General 

 Paralysis of the Insane," a subject at that time but little attended 

 to ; and more lately he wrote a valuable monograph on " Moral 

 Delinquency in Children," or an exposition of the early tendency 

 to insanity in childhood, partly the result of hereditary predispo- 

 sition, and partly the consequence of imperfect and misdirected 

 education. When the photographic art became more generally 

 known, Dr. Bush very early observed how advantageously a good 

 manipulator might apply the processes to record objects in Natural 

 History. He became an ardent practitioner of the art, and had 

 gained great efficiency in it, producing beautiful specimens from 

 various natural sources, especially from the vegetable kingdom ; 

 but, unfortunately, in his manipulations his skin absorbed some 

 of the poisonous matters used in the preparation of his paper, and 

 this becoming diifused through his body led to inflammation of 

 the veins in his extremities ; from thence the inflammation spread 

 gradually to the great blood-vessels of the trunk, and led to his 

 premature decease. His rectitude of heart and life, his amiable 

 and conciliatory manners, and his devoted love of nature endeared 

 liim to a numerous circle of friends ; while this Society has to 

 record the loss of a member who promised greatly to advance the 

 objects of the Society itself, and who happily blended the characters 

 of the gentleman and the man of science. 



Lieut. James Ilolman, B.N., F.H.S., universally known as " the 

 blind traveller," was born at Exeter, in the county of Devon, 

 October 15th, 1786. Although not distinguished as a naturalist. 



