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and effect of the colouring, and correctness of profile, render them 

 excellent portraits of the fish they are intended to represent. 

 Mr. Reeves had four copies of these drawings made. One set, 

 which he presented to General Hardwicke, is bound up with that 

 officer's large collection of sketches of Indian Fish, in four folio 

 volumes, in the British Museum. Another copy, left by Mr. 

 Beeves at Macao with Mr. Beale, formed the groundwork of the 

 enumeration of Chinese fishes in Bridgeman's ' Chrestomathy.' 

 A third copy, which he liberally lent to me, is the foundation 

 of this Report. Mr. Reeves has also deposited in the British 

 Museum specimens of Chinese fish, both dried and preserved in 

 spirits, part of them the very examples which are figured in his 

 drawings. His son, John Russell Reeves, Esq., [also, let me add, 

 a valuable Fellow of our Society,] has likewise presented various 

 fish procured at Macao to the British Museum ; among which are 

 several species not figured in his father's drawings." Mr. Reeves's 

 contributions to the British Museum were not limited to the 

 Natural-History departments, but included also the Library and 

 the department of Antiquities, to the latter of which in particular 

 he gave, from his large collection of Chinese coins, all such as 

 were thought desirable for the national cabinet. At an early 

 period of his residence in China, he collected, at the request of 

 Dr. Morison, the Chinese names of the stars and constellations, 

 which were published at that time, and are usually bound up with 

 Dr. Morison' s Chinese Dictionary. 



Mr. Reeves became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1817, 

 and of the Royal Society in the same year ; he was also a Fellow 

 of the Horticultural Society, the Royal Astronomical, the Asiatic, 

 and the Zoological Societies, and of the Society of Arts ; and most 

 of these institutions are indebted to him for valuable contributions 

 to their collections. From the time of his return to England, in 

 1831, he resided at Clapham, where he died on the 22nd of March 

 in the present year, having nearly completed his 82nd year. 



Samuel Mootsey, Esq., for many years Lecturer on Chemistry 

 and Botany in the Medical School of Bristol, was born on the 

 12th of February 1788, at Colchester, where his father was the 

 proprietor of extensive oil-mills. At an early age he was placed 

 under the charge of his grandmother at Halstead in the county 

 of Essex, and attended the grammar-school of that place for some 

 years ; after which he was removed to a boarding-school at Harlow 

 in the same county. In 1803 he was apprenticed to a chemist at 

 Southampton, and eagerly attached himself to the study of che- 



