466 Lirmccaii Society. 



first volume and the first part of the second volume of its Transac- 

 tions, were edited by him, and he contributed a great number of 

 scattered notices and many very valuable papers to them. 



Of his separate works "The Tower Menagerie" appeared in 1829, 

 and " The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society" in 

 1830 and 1831, and an edition of ** White's Natural History of Sel- 

 bourne/' to which he added many interesting notes and illustrations, 

 was published soon alter his death. 



These publications, the zealous discharge of the duties of secretary, 

 first of the Zoological Club of the Linnaean Society and afterwards of 

 the Zoological Society, with the more unobtrusive but not less use- 

 ful services which he rendered to zoologv by the advice and assistance 

 which he aflorded to all its cultivators who asked theni at his hands, 

 were his chief contributions to natural history. His intimate friends 

 are fully aware how large a portion of his time and how much pains 

 and labour be bestowed to the furtherance of the objects of others ; 

 and there are i'^w of the zoologists of this country who would not 

 bear testimony to the fact that by means of the assistance thus af- 

 forded he contributed to facilitate the progress of zoology in Great 

 Britain and to give it its proper direction. He died in his 40th 

 year, and has left behind him an enviable remembrance in the minds 

 of many amongst us whose scientific attainments and moral worth 

 deservedly place them high in our esteem. 



Henry Thomas Colebrookey Esq., F R.S., 8ic., — one of the most di- 

 stinguished Oriental scholars of Europe, the successor of Sir William 

 Jones as Judge of the Native Court in Bengal and as President of 

 the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, and the founder of tiie Royal Asiatic 

 Society of London ; a man almost as eminent for his scientific ardour 

 as his high literary attainments. 



Botany and geology were among the most favourite of his pur- 

 suits. He contributed three papers to our Transactions : 



'* A description of select Indian Plants," in 1817. 



" On the Indian Species oi' Menispermum,'* in 1819. 



" On Bosvoellia and certain Indian Terehinihacece^"' in 1826. 



Alexander Collie^ Esq., Surgeon R.N , — a native of Scotland and 

 beloved by all who knew him for the kindness of his disposition. He 

 accompanied Capt. Beechey on his voyage to Behring's Straits as 

 surgeon, and made valuable collections in natural history. He 

 went out with the first settlers to Swan River, and died at King 

 George's Sound in December 1835, bequeathing to the Linnsean 

 Society his collection of dried plants which he had made in that 

 colony. 



Mr. Edward Donovan^ — author of various splendidly illustrated 

 works on the zoology of this country and on the insects of India and 

 New Holland. He wrote the articles Conchology and Entomology 

 in Rees's Encyclopaedia. His works perhaps exhibit more of the 

 splendour of art than of any enlarged views of science. He added 

 .some species to the previously existing knowledge of detailed zoology; 

 and it is painful to reflect that one who had laboured so much in the 

 cause of science should not have escaped the penury that too often 

 waits on age. 



