468 Linnaan Society, 



voted of sisters, he returned to his favourite occupations with his ha- 

 bitual ardour, and the letters he wrote to his scientific friends in this 

 country exhibited the same devotion to the study of nature which di- 

 stinguished the brighter years of his life. 



His principal work, ** The Natural History of the Molluscaof Great 

 Britain," in the possession of his friend Mr. Bell, is not yet pub- 

 lished. His other works were: 



** Malacostraca Podophthalma Brita7inice,'' 4to, 1815 and 1816, 

 not finished. 



*' Zoological Miscellany," 3 vols. 8vo, 1817. 



"On the Genera and Species of Proboscideous Insects," 8 vo, 1817. 



He described the animals taken by Cranch in the expedition of 

 Capt. Tuckey to the Congo; and was the author of valuable articles 

 in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Philoso- 

 phical Transactions, Zoological Journal, Memoirs of the Wernerian 

 Society, Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. 



Between 1810 and 1820 he contributed seven papers to the Trans- 

 actions of the Linncean Society : three on Insects j a general arrange- 

 ment of the Crustacea, Myriapoda, and Arachnides, a very laborious 

 work ; two descriptive of ten new genera of Bats ; one on three new 

 species of Glareola. He died in Italy last year of cholera. 



General Joaquim Oliveira, — to whom we are indebted for the pre- 

 sent of the Flora Fluminensis of Vellozo ; a work illustrative of the 

 plants of Rio Janeiro. He held an important office under Don Pedro 

 in Brazil. 



Joseph Sabine, Esq., F.R.S., 5fc. — Mr. Sabine at the time of his 

 death had been a Fellow of this Society for nearly forty years j and 

 as one of its friends who throughout his life devoted himself to the 

 pursuit of natural history there is a claim for justice due to his 

 memory. 



He was the intimate associate of many of the oldest and most di- 

 stinguished of our Members, and there are some around me who un- 

 questionably must have looked on the unkindly feelings cherished 

 towards him of late years with deep regret, and who, without being 

 blind to the errors of judgement he may have committed, still feel 

 that those errors did not implicate his integrity, and that considering 

 his contributions to the stock of our knowledge in horticulture, bo- 

 tany, and zoology, and the kindliness of his nature in promoting the 

 interests of those whom he had it in his power to serve, the obliga- 

 tions of charity were lost sight of in the prejudices by which he was 

 assailed. 



But his exertions in the cause of science should not be overlooked 

 nor undervalued; and any one who follows the progression in the de- 

 velopment of a more scientific system of horticulture in this country, 

 and an improved taste for the general cultivation of plants, will find 

 that his labours were productive of the best interests in this depart- 

 ment of science. 



His zoological studies were principally directed to British ornitho- 

 logy, in which he was considered an excellent authority. He had 

 paid much attention to the changes of plumage in birds, to the time 



