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ferent in external appearance, he determined by analysis to be a mere 

 modification of Caoutchouc. 



Mr. Allen was for several years a very popular Lecturer on Ex- 

 perimental Philosophy at the Royal Institution ; and for more than 

 twenty years (viz. from 1804 to 1827) he filled the office of Lecturer 

 on the same subject at Guy's Hospital. In 1807, cooperating with 

 the late Mr. Joseph Fox, he first directed his energies to assist in the 

 struggle which Joseph Lancaster was then making to establish his 

 system of mutual instruction ; and from this period, his time and at- 

 tention were by degrees almost wholly devoted to that great under- 

 taking. His death occurred in the 74th year of his age, at Lind- 

 field in Sussex, where he had resided for many years for nearly 

 half his time, occupied in the superintendence of some important 

 experiments for the promotion of an improved condition of the work- 

 ing classes in agriculture by means of education and allotments of 

 land, on which subject he published several interesting essays. 



Richard Forester Forester, Esq., M.D., President of the Derby 

 Philosophical Society, and for five-and-forty years a Fellow of the 

 Linnsean Society, died on the 5th of December last, in the 73rd year 

 of his age. He was at the head of his profession in the town of 

 Derby, and took a leading part in most of the useful and benevolent 

 institutions of his neighbourhood ; being also the senior magistrate 

 of the county, and an alderman and a magistrate of the borough. He 

 was distinguished for classical attainments and a refined taste ; and 

 had formed a collection of fossils which he bequeathed to the Museum 

 of the Derby Society. To the Arboretum so nobly presented to the 

 town by the late Mr. Joseph Strutt (and the formation of which is 

 regarded as one of the most successful labours of another of our Fel- 

 lows, whom it will be my duty presently to notice more particularly), 

 Dr. Forester bequeathed the sum of 300/., besides several consider- 

 able legacies to charitable institutions. 



James Barlow Hoy, Esq., who for several years represented the 

 borough of Southampton in Parliament, was much attached to orni- 

 thology, and at the time of his melancholy death was on a tour in 

 the Pyrenees, with the object of collecting rare birds. His death, 

 which took place on the 13th of August last, at the Hospice de 

 Vieille, was occasioned by the bursting of his gun while engaged in 

 his favourite pursuit. 



John Claudius Loudon, Esq., was born at Cambuslang, in the county 

 of Lanark, on the 8th of April 1783. He was the eldest son of a 

 respectable farmer in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh ; and his 

 mother being left a widow with a large family, his exertions were 

 early called forth to assist in providing for their support. At the age 

 of twenty he came to England, and began to practise as a landscape 

 gardener, the profession for which he had been educated, and which 

 he afterwards cultivated with so much success. In 1806 he became 

 a Fellow of the Linnsean Society, and in 1809 resided in Oxfordshire, 

 where he had taken an extensive farm. He subsequently made 

 several tours on the continent, visiting Sweden, Russia, Poland and 

 Austria in 1813, 1814 and 1815, Italy in 1819, and France and 



