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the United States Groyernmeut, and the ' Challenger ' will be 

 familiar to working zoologists. In them, as in all he did, he 

 showed a power of work and mental capacity which may be held 

 up to future generations of naturali-^ts as ideil. 



Allman was an active supporter of the British Association and 

 of other institutions which exist for the popularization of science, 

 while, on the other hand, he served his country well as one of 

 the Commissioners of the Scottish fisheries, and of the Board 

 appointed to enquire into the working of the Queen's Colleges 

 in Irelaud. He was a Fellow and Medallist of the Eoyal 

 Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the E )yal Irish 

 Academy, and on the Couucils of all these he did excellent 

 service. On 15th February, 1872, he was elected a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society, and of this he became President in 1874, 

 succeeding Bentham. The seven years during which he held 

 office were conspicuous by their activity and good work, prompted, 

 as was so largely the case, by the thoroughness and exemplary 

 nature of his Presidential Addresses. In 1895 he received the 

 Society's Grold Medal, the presentation of which was speedily 

 followed hy that to the Society of his portrait, by Miss Busk, 

 which adorns the walls of the Society's npartments. 



A noble man (dignified, temperate, considerate), a good friend, 

 an earnest student, he set unto liim-ielf high ideils and realized 

 them in an exemplary manner, worthy the emulation of his suc- 

 cessors and of all who would become great in the growth of 

 knowledge. 



Samtjel Dentois" Bairstow was born at Huddersfield, Yorkshire, 

 was elected Fellow of our Society 4th March, 1880, and emigrated 

 to Natal, on the grounds of health, in 1882. He was engaged 

 in the woollen trade, aud subsequently as hotel propriet )r 

 at Cradock and Zuarbeg, but his leisure was devoted to the study 

 of Natural History, especially in Conchology and Entomology ; a 

 collection of shells made by him is now at Cambridge. He was 

 one of the founders of the Port Elizabeth Naturalists' Society. 

 He died of phthisis in the month of J uly 1898. 



"William Boebkb, Esq., who died on the 22nd of October, 1898, 

 was the eldest son of the late well-known botanist of the same 

 name, for many years a Fellow of this Society (see ' Proceedings 

 of the Linnean Society,' 24th May, 1862, pp. Ixxxv-xe), and was 

 born in his father's house at Barrow Hill, in the parish of Hen- 

 field and county of Sussex, on the 18th of January, 1814. His 

 early education was begun by his father, and continued for a 

 short time at a school near Chichester; but he was subsequently 

 ent to one under Leith Hill, near Dorking, kept by Dr. Eusdeu, 

 a man of great reputation for learning, where he remained about 

 eight years until he had attained the age of nineteeu. During 

 the holidays the younger Bon-er was the frequent companion ot 



