XXXVI PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



The Right Hon. William Bagot, Baron Bagot, D.C.L. Sfc, was 

 the third but eldest surviving son of William, first Lord Bagot, 

 and was born in Bruton Street, London, on the 11th September 

 1773. He was educated at Westminster School, and afterwards 

 at Magdalen College, Oxford, from which University he received 

 the degree of D.C.L. in 1834. In 1798 he succeeded his father 

 in the peerage, and in the same year he was elected a Fellow of 

 the Linnean Society. He took no active part in politics, but 

 attached himself to literary and scientific pursuits, especially to 

 agriculture and natural history, and became a Fellow of the 

 Society of Antiquaries, and also of the Horticultural and Zoolo- 

 gical Societies. In the year 1824 his Lordship printed ! Memo- 

 rials of the Bagot Family, compiled in 1823.' He was twice 

 married, and died at his seat, Blithfield, near Stafford, on the 12th 

 of February in the present year, leaving a numerous family by 

 his second wife. His connexion with the Linnean Society ex- 

 tended over the long period of fifty-eight years. 



Lewis Weston Dillwyn, JEsq., was descended from an old Bre- 

 conshire family, and was born at Ipswich in the year 1778. His 

 father, William Dillwyn, was a member of the Society of Friends, 

 whose immediate ancestors had emigrated to America in the com- 

 pany of William Penn, and who was himself early and intimately 

 associated with Clarkson and Wilberforce in the agitation for the 

 Abolition of Negro Slavery. 



Mr. Dillwyn received his early education at a Friends' school 

 at Tottenham, where he had for the associate of his boyish days 

 our old and valued Fellow, Mr. Joseph Woods, together with 

 whom he was sent for a time to Folkestone on account of the then 

 weak state of his health. In the year 1798 he went to Dover, 

 where he succeeded his school-companion Mr, Woods as the 

 inmate of a friend of the name of Beck. " During his residence 

 at Dover," says Mr. Woods, in a communication on the subject, 

 " I paid him a visit, and well recollect the pleasure we had in 

 rambling over the country, and finding many plants which were 

 then unknown to us. I apprehend that it was during this re- 

 sidence at Dover that he first applied himself to botany, but what 

 fixed his attention to that science I do not know. Probably his 

 intimacy with the three brothers Forster had something to do 

 with it." The fruit of his researches at Dover appeared in a list 

 of plants, read at the Linnean Society in March 1801, and in 

 October of the same year he contributed a notice of the discovery 

 of the Sisymbrium murale, L., in the neighbourhood of E-amsgate, 



