tanical Works, consisting of De Candolles, Prodromus 

 Systematis Naturalis, Eegni Vegetabilis, 7 vols. 8vo., 

 Jussieu's Genera Plantarum, Don's Catalogue of Plants, 

 and Lowden's Encyclopaedia of Plants, from the Council 

 of the Leeds Zoological and Botanical Gardens; and 

 the Reports and Proceedings of several Metropolitan 

 and Provincial Societies. 



During the past year the Society has had the 

 melancholy duty to record the loss of another of its 

 early and most efficient Members, the Rev. R. W. 

 Hamilton, D.D., LL.D., who joined the Society, in the 

 First Session of its existence in 1821, and from that 

 period until his decease, continued with imabated zeal 

 to manifest a lively interest in its prosperity. He was 

 ever ready to contribute to the literary proceedings of 

 this Institution, for which his classical proficiency, 

 extensive reading, and retentive memory, eminently 

 qualified him. Dr. Hamilton, during the twenty-eight 

 years of his membership, was (with only one or two 

 exceptions, when the state of his health dictated the 

 prudence of his retirement from public excitement) a 

 Member of the Council, and filled with ability the 

 offices of President and Vice President. During that 

 period he delivered Twenty-two Papers and Lectures 

 at the Meetings of this Society. The Members* of 

 Council who were not prevented by absence or in- 

 evitable engagements attended the funeral of Dr. 

 Hamilton, and their sympathy was communicated by 



