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is stated to have rendered great services both to his College and 

 to the University. He collected a very valuable library of topo- 

 graphical, antiquarian and botanical works, as well as a consider- 

 able number of articles of virtu, which have been sold by auction 

 since his death. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society 

 in 1815, and died at Litlington, on the 4th of January in the 

 present year, in the 81st year of his age. 



The only death which it is my duty to record as having occurred 

 among our Foreign Members during the past year, is that of 



Johcmn Christoph Friedrich Klug, Doctor of Medicine and Phi- 

 losophy, for the last thirty-eight years Extraordinary Professor in 

 the University of Berlin, and one of the Directors of the Eoyal 

 Zoological Museum of that capital. Information of the death of 

 this distinguished entomologist has been so recently communi- 

 cated to me, that I have not yet had the opportunity of making 

 myself sufficiently acquainted with the particulars of his life to 

 give even an imperfect sketch of his career. He was born at 

 Berlin on the 5th of May 1775, and educated at the University 

 of Halle, where he printed, in 1797, his inaugural dissertation, 

 entitled ' Historia Instrument orum ad Polyporum extirpationem.' 

 His entomological publications commenced with a valuable ' Mo- 

 nographia Siricum Germanise,' published at Berlin in 4to, 1803 ; 

 and this has been followed by a long succession of monographs 

 (chiefly on the stinging Hymenoptera) and other works, extending 

 nearly to the present time. Of these thirty-five are enumerated 

 in the ' Bibliographia Zoologise et Geologise ' of the Eay Society. 

 As Keeper of one of the most extensive and best-arranged collec- 

 tions of insects in Europe, he had ample opportunities of con- 

 tributing to entomological science, not only by his own labours, 

 but also by the assistance which he was ever ready to afford in 

 facilitating the labours of others. 



The Secretary also announced that nineteen Fellows had been 

 elected since the last Anniversary. 



At the Election which subsequently took place, Thomas Bell, 

 Esq. was re-elected President ; William Yarrell, Esq., Treasurer ; 

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

 Under-Secretary. The following Five Fellows were elected into 

 the Council in the room of others going out : — Bobert Bentley, 

 Esq. ; L. L. Dillwyn, Esq. ; Eichard Owen, Esq. ; Joseph Woods, 

 Esq. y and James Yates, Esq. 



