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Lawrence Brock HolUnshead, Esq. 



John Hull, M.D. — Dr. Hull was ardently attached to the study of 

 Botany, and in the midst of an extensive medical practice, he found 

 occasional moments of leisure to devote to the cultivation of his 

 favourite pursuit. We are indebted to him for the publication of a 

 British Flora in 1799, of which a second edition appeared in 1808 ; 

 and the Elements of Botany, in 2 volumes, 8vo, in 1800. These 

 works, highly creditable to their author, tended to increase the taste 

 for botanical pursuits. 



Matthew Martin, Esq. — Mr. Martin reached the advanced age of 

 90. He became a Fellow of this Society in 1791. 



George Milne, Esq. — Mr. Milne pursued with much ardour the 

 study of Entomology for more than half a century, and his name is 

 familiar to the cultivators of that branch of science in this country. 

 He possessed an extensive cabinet of insects, particularly rich in Bri- 

 tish and Exotic Lepidoptera. He had retired from London for several 

 years to his native place Johnshaven, Kincardineshire, where he died 

 some months ago at an advanced age. 



The Rev. Robert Nixon, B.D., F.R.S. 



William Younge, M.D. — Dr. Younge was the early friend and a 

 fellow student of our late distinguished President and Founder Sir 

 J. E. Smith, and the companion of his tour on the continent in the 

 years 1786 and 1787, of which an account appeared in three volumes 

 8vo, in 1793, and a second edition in 1807. Dr. Younge was elected 

 a Fellow of this Society at its first institution in March 1788. 



Amongst the Foreign Members occur M. Frederic Cuvier, Mem- 

 ber of the Academy of Sciences of the French Institute, the younger 

 brother of the great Cuvier, and eminently distinguished as a system- 

 atic zoologist. He was the author of a work on the value of the 

 teeth as affording zoological characters in the class mammalia, and 

 of a number of valuable papers on Descriptive Zoology in the An- 

 nales et Memoires du Museum. He likewise wrote the principal 

 part of the text to the Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes, a work 

 which he had undertaken in conjunction with Geoifroy St. Hilaire. 

 Among his last productions may be noticed his Memoire sur les Ger- 

 boises et les Gerbilles, printed in the second volume of the Transac- 

 tions of the Zoological Society of London. He was distinguished, 

 like his brother, for his candour and frankness of character, and a total 

 freedom from those petty jealousies which too often beset men of 

 science. 



M. Charles de Gimhcrnat. 



Gaspard Count Sternberg, Founder and President of the Royal 



