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Mr. Richard Taylor, the well-known printer and accomplished 

 naturalist and scholar, was born at Norwich in 1781. In the year 

 1807 he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and in 1810 

 was elected its nnder-secretary, an office which he retained for 

 nearl}^ half a century, and in which he earned for himself the cor- 

 dial esteem and good-'wdll of every member of the Society. In his 

 diary, under date of the anniversary of 1849, he notes that he had 

 " served with the naturalists M'Leay, Bicheno, Boott, and Bennett, 

 under the successive Presidencies of the founder, Sir J. E. Smith, 

 of the late Earl of Derby, the Duke of Somerset, and Dr. Stanley 

 Bishop of Norwich." To the names of these Presidents he might 

 subsequently have added those of Robert Brown and of Thomas 

 Bell, the actual President of the Linnean Society, by both of whom 

 he was highly esteemed for his strict sense of honour, his amiable 

 disposition, and his entire devotion to the interests of the Linnean 

 Society. 



Among the numerous other learned bodies of which he was a 

 member, the Society of Antiquaries, the Astronomical Society, and 

 the Philological were those bodies in which he took the deepest in- 

 terest. He also attached himself from its commencement to the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science, many of 

 the meetings of which he regularly attended, and at which he 

 was always cordially welcomed by numerous friends, including 

 myself. 



In 1822 he joined Dr. Tilloch as editor of the 'Philosophical 

 Magazine,' with which Dr. Thomson's 'Annals of Philosophy' 

 were subsequently incorporated. In 1838 he established the 

 * Annals of Natural History,' and united with it, in 1841, Loudon 

 and Charlesworth's ' Magazine of Natural History.' He subse- 

 quently (at the suggestion and with the assistance of some of the 

 most eminent members of the British Association) issued several 

 volumes of a work intended especially to contain foreign papers of 

 a high order of merit, translated into English, under the title 

 of ' Taylor's Scientific Memoirs.' But his own principal literary 

 labours were in the field of Philological research. In 1829 he pre- 

 pared a new edition of Home Tooke's ' Diversions of Purley,' 

 which he enriched with many valuable notes, and which he re- 

 edited in 1840. In the same year (1840) Warton's ' History of 

 English Poetry ' having been placed in his hands by Mr. Tegg the 

 publisher, he contributed largely, in conjunction with his friends 

 Sir F. Madden, Benjamin Thorpe, J. M. Kemble, and others, to 



