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municated to the Eoyal Society a paper " On Fossil Shells," which 

 was printed in the ' Philosophical Transactions,' and was suc- 

 ceeded by a second paper on the same subject in the following 

 year. In 1827 he communicated to the Linnean Society a notice 

 of the occurrence of lanthina fragilis, Lam., in the neighbourhood 

 of Swansea, which is published in the 16th volume of our ' Trans- 

 actions.' Two short paper s, one in the third volume of the 

 ' Zoological Journal,' on the Cyprsese described by Mr. Gray, and 

 the other in the ' Proceedings ' of the Zoological Society, " On 

 the Capture of a specimen of Labrus maculatus in Swansea Bay," 

 were published in 1828 and 1829. His ' Earer Plants of Swansea,' 

 and his ' Memoranda relating to Coleopterous Insects found in 

 the neighbourhood of Swansea,' both privately printed, were also 

 widely distributed by him in the same years. 



In 1832, on the election which followed the passing of the 

 Reform Bill, Mr. Dillwyn was returned to the House of Commons 

 for the county of Glamorgan, of which he had for many years 

 been an active Magistrate, occasionally presiding as Chairman of 

 the Quarter Sessions, and for which he had also served the office 

 of High Sheriff in 1818. The freedom of the borough of Swansea 

 was unanimously presented to him in 1834, " as a mark of great 

 personal respect," and from 1835 to 1840 he served as Mayor and 

 Alderman of the borough. In his capacity of a Member of Par- 

 liament, from which he retired at the election of 1841, his votes 

 were given with more than usual independence of party trammels. 

 His portrait appears, in company with those of his friends, Mr. 

 Talbot and Mr. Vivian, in Sir G-eorge Hayter's celebrated picture, 

 and has since been separately lithographed by Eddis. 



During the period of his parliamentary career his visits to 

 London were necessarily more frequent and of longer duration ; 

 but his time was not wholly swallowed up by his attention to 

 public affairs. He was busily engaged in the libraries of the 

 Athenaeum, of the British Museum, and of the Eoyal and Linnean 

 Societies, in preparing \ A Eeview of the references to the Hortus 

 Malabaricus of Henry Van Eheede Draakenstein,' which he 

 printed in 1839. In the country too he occupied himself on a 

 volume entitled ' Contributions towards a History of Swansea,' 

 300 copies of which work, printed in 1840, he presented to the 

 managers of a bazaar for the benefit of the Swansea Infirmary, 

 for which valuable institution the sale of these copies is believed 

 to have produced the sum of £150. In 1843 he printed ' Hortus 

 Collinsonianus : an Account of the Plants cultivated by Peter Col- 



