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" bution of Animated Nature, by a Fellow 

 M of the Linnaean Society. M These observations 

 were on a new binary dichotomous plan, and, 

 in 1825, were acknowledged by Mr. Haworth 

 to be his : they were continued in the Magazine 

 for February, 1825, and in some subsequent 

 numbers ; the other communications are on 

 botanical subjects. He has also described two 

 species of Crocus as new to Britain, in No. 11, 

 recently published, of the Supplement to Sower- 

 by's English Botany. Mr. Haworth is a Fellow 

 of the Imperial Natural History Society, of 

 Moscow. 



Among our native authors, I may mention ano- 

 ther honorary and valuable member of this In- 

 stitution, the Rev. JOHN BARNES EMMETT,* whose 

 late father was a considerable merchant in this 

 town. To Mr. Emmett we are under great obli- 

 gation for his able and instructive lectures on 

 Chemistry, delivered gratis to the Society. The 

 science of Chemistry engaged the attention of 

 our young philosopher at an early period of his 

 life ; and even while engaged in his academical 

 studies, at the University of Cambridge, he pur- 

 sued it with indefatigable zeal. Many of the 

 results of his scientific researches and discoveries 

 were made public, through the medium of the 



* Mr. Emmett has now become a Subscribing Member of the Insti- 

 tution. 



