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a groat knowledge of the forms of animal and vegetable life. In the Reports of the British 

 Association for 1843, he published a paper "On the Natural Affinities of the Insessorial Order 

 of Birds;" ahd again, in the "Magazine of Natural Ilistor}^" vol. ii., "Observations on the 

 Affinities and Analogies of Organized Beings." 



It must be obvious, that the labours to which wo have alluded, imply an immense amount 

 of industry; but in the midst of all his practical investigations, Mr. Strickland found time 

 for purely literary work. Thus, in 1847, he undertook to edit for the Ray Societj' a work, 

 the collection of materials for which had cost Professor Agassiz many years of labour, entitled 

 "Bibliographia Zoologite et Geologi»." Three volumes of this great work are published, and 

 the fourth and last is now in the hands of the printer. Mr. Strickland's labour licre was 

 not merely that of editing— it embraced the contribution of a large mass of additional matter, 

 amounting to a third or fourth of the whole. He spared no pains to make this M^ork com- 

 plete; and it must ever be regarded by the zoologist and the geologist, as a most valuable 

 gift to the sciences which they cultivate. 



On the occurrence of the illness of Dr. Buckland, and his withdrawal from the duties of the chair 

 of Geology at Oxford, every one felt the propriety of inviting Mr. Strickland to deliver lectures 

 in his place. Though young for so important a post, and with a reputation in other depart- 

 ments of science, he was found able to sustain the fame of his predecessor in this, and brought 

 to bear with great advantage the stores of his varied knowledge upon a science which is 

 always susceptible of influence and amplification from the principles of other departments of 

 science, however distant from it they may at first sight appear. The Reports of the British 

 Association, the Transactions of the Geological Society, the papers of tin; Quarterly Journal 

 of the Geological Society of London, and of the London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, 

 all testify to Mr. Strickland's activity as a geologist. They contain a mass of valuable obser- 

 vations both on paleontology and on the physical structures of rock in this country and 

 in other parts of the world, which must for ever remain a part of the history of the science 

 of geology, and constitute a permanent monument of the industry and earnestness of the man 

 who made them. 



In several of his geological papers, Mr. Strickland's name is connected with that of Sir R. 

 I. Murchison; especially in a work on "The Geology of Cheltenham and its Neighbourhood." 

 He assisted Sir Roderick in preparing for the press his great work on the Silurian system; 

 and the proof sheets of his now work on Siluria all passed through Mr. Strickland's hands^ 

 the last of the work having been corrected at Hull. 



At the time of his death, Mr. Strickland was engaged in working on his "Ornithological 

 Synonymy," the printing of which was delayed only to render it more full and complete. 

 He possessed a very ample and useful library, also extensive geological and ornithological 

 collections, which are now at his residence at Apperley Green, near Tewkesbur}'. 



In 1845. Mr. Strickland was married to the second daughter of Sir William Jardine, Bart. : 

 both of whom, with Mr. Strickland's father and mother, survive to lament his premature 

 loss. 



In the above brief sketch we have spoken only of Mr. Strickland's scientific career — but 

 he had moral qualities that endeared him to all who knew him. Few came in contact with 

 him who did not recognize in him a conscientious, amiable, and excellent man. In him 

 Oxford has lost & Professor whom she could ill afford to part with at this time. To him, 

 they who hoped for the wider culture of natural science at Oxford looked as to one who had 

 tlie power and ability to take a lead. The scientific Societies have lost in him a member 

 who was unwearied in his assiduity to carry out their objects in all their purity. His means 

 made him independent of his labours; and all recognized in his exertions thgl lovip^if science 

 and its objects which constitutes the true philosopher." /V^^^dL-" ^"^1^ 



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"Will Mr. Mc'Tntosh be so kind as to inform us whether all the trees he enumerates are 

 easily, and where, procurable, and whether any of them are very expensive? — F. 0. Morris, 

 Nafferton Vicarage, Driffield, October 27th., 1853. 



