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Theophilus "William GiUDLESTOisrE was the only son of the late 

 Canon W. Harding Girdlestone, and for many jeavs at Sunning- 

 dale The proprietor of a school devoted to preparing pupils for the 

 public schools. 



He possessed a garden which was devoted latterly to the 

 cultivation of the single Dahlia, and was very successful in 

 showing them. He filled in succession the offices of Secretary, 

 Treasurer, and President of the National Dahlia Society. His 

 first hobby in gardening was the Eose, but he relinquished it in 

 favour of a fiower which came into perfection at a period of the 

 year when he could devote more time to it. 



After a short illness he died at Sunningdale on Sunday, 2oth June, 

 1899. He was elected a Pellow of this Society 2nd May, 

 1889. A portrait was published in 'The Kosariau's Year-book' 

 for 1892, and most of the gardening journals contain a sympathetic 

 reference to an ardent cultivator. 



Sylvantts Hanley, whose name is a landmark in the progress of 

 Malacology, was born at Oxford on 7th January, 1819. Entering 

 Wadham, he in due course took his degree. He began life as a 

 law-student, but, being possessed of ample means, he gave himself 

 up to his favourite occupation, which he pursued with painstaking 

 accuracy, his publications extending from 1841 till 1885. Some 

 35 papers issued during this period stand recorded in his name, 

 mostly in the 'Journal' of the Linnean Society, the 'Proceedings' 

 of the Zoological Society, and the ' Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History.' Three monographs were contzibuted to 

 Sowerby's ' Thesaurus,' viz., that on Tellina (1846), on the 

 NuculidrB (1860), and on Solanum (1863); but it is by his separate 

 books that Hanley will be best remembered, and of these there 

 were seven in all, from his 'Exotic Couchology ' (1841) to his 

 ' Conchologia ludica ' (1870-76). His 'History of the British 

 Mollusca,' written in conjunction with Edward Porbes in 1848- 

 1853, still remains a standard work, and will rank as his most 

 famous ; and his ' Ipsa Linusei Conchylia,' with its associated 

 treatise on the Linnean Manuscript of the Museum IJlricae 

 (Journ. and Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. iv. p. 43), will always remain 

 indispensable, by virtue of their historical associatiou. 



Hanley died at Penzance on 5th April, 1900, at the advanced 

 age of 80. 



He was a Pellow of the Zoological Society, and was elected a 

 Pellow of the Linnean on 19th December, 1843. 



Heney Bendelack Hewetson, an ophthalmic surgeon of much 

 distinction, of Leeds, whose death at Hull occurred on 15th May, 

 Avas an enthusiastic Ornithologist and lover of nature. He was best 

 known for having first recorded the visits of certain birds to our 

 shores, and as a student of bird-migration. He made A'aluable col- 

 lections of birds and insects on the coast of North Africa, and as an 

 explorer he will be further remembered for his part in the working- 



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