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"on the Principal Doctrines of Christianity ." 

 Mr. Hare died on the 14th March, 1817. 



This society has recently been deprived of one 

 of its honorary members, by the death of the 

 late PETER WILLIAM WATSON, Esq., F.L.S. He 

 was baptized at the Holy-Trinity Church, on the 

 26th of August, 1761, and received his educa- 

 tion at the Grammar School, under the late Rev. 

 Joseph Milner. At an early age he devoted him- 

 self to the pencil, and attained considerable 

 proficiency as a landscape painter ; he afterwards 

 pursued, with enthusiasm, the study of botany, 

 entomology, chemistry, mineralogy, and other 

 branches of natural history. His intimate ac- 

 quaintance with these subjects made him a 

 valuable member of various scientific institutions 

 in this town, to which he belonged, and to whose 

 objects he contributed greatly, by the energy of 

 his mind, and the originality of his genius ; his 

 only published work, which is beautifully illus- 

 trated with coloured plates, is entitled " Dendro- 

 tc logia Britannica, or trees and shrubs that will 

 " live in the open air of Britain, throughout the 

 " year/' It is contained in two octavo vo- 

 lumes, and was printed in 1825. Mr. Watson 

 died on the first day of September, 1830, at the 

 age of sixty -nine years. 



The talents and learning of the late Rev. SEP- 

 TIMUS STAINTON, M.A., although obscured by 



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