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He held the honourable appointments of Serjeant-Surgeon to' 

 H.M. the Queen, of Surgeon-in-Ordinary to H.E.H. the Prince 

 of Wales ; and as a writer is best known by his ' Clinical Lectures 

 and Essays,' and others of the kind from time to time delivered 

 on surgical pathology. 



He died at his London residence, Regent's Park, on December 

 30th, 1899, in his 87th year. 



He was elected a Pellow of the Eoyal Society in 1854, and for 

 over 30 years served at intervals upon its Council. He was also 

 a Corresponding Member of the Institute of .France. He was 

 elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 18th January, 1872. 



At the age of 93 our oldest and senior Associate, William 

 Pamplin, passed away at Pen-yr-llan, Llaudderfel, Merionethshire, 

 on 9th September, 1899. 



His grandfather was a native of Halstead in Essex, and after- 

 wards carried on the business of a florist at Walthamstovv. The 

 father of our late Associate followed the same business, then was 

 for nine years head gardener to Mr. Crawshay at Merthyr Tydvil,. 

 but left that employment to set up as nurseryman at Chelsea. 

 William Pamplin, the only son, was born at Chelsea 5th August, 

 1806, and was educated at the classical school of the Rev. David 

 Eelip, who was assisted by his brothers Peter and John, also 

 clergymen. After his school-days William Pamplin assisted his 

 father in the nursery, and spent some of his leisure in noting the 

 wild plants within a walk of Chelsea. 



A list of the indigenous plants of Clapham was published in 

 Batten's ' Key and Companion to the Plan of Clapham with its 

 Common and Environs,' issued in 1827 with this editorial note : — 

 " Eor the valuable catalogue of indigenous plants, growing in the 

 vicinity of Clapham, the editor is indebted to Mr. Wm. Pamplin, 

 junr., of Lavender Hill Nursery, where specimens of the plants 

 may be seen either preserved or growing." The list occupies pages 

 34 to 48 inclusive, and very few of the plants named as to be 

 found on Clapham Common exist there now ; while Battersea 

 Fields, so favourite and prolific a hunting-ground in the time of 

 William Curtis and his successors, has long since been converted 

 into Battersea Park. This list was reprinted with some additions 

 in the same year as a pamphlet of 17 pages. 



When he was 24 years of age, Pamplin was elected an Associate 

 of this Society, on January 19th, 1830. He had even in old age a 

 vivid recollection of men and things at the Linnean Society : — 

 A. B. Lambert as Vice-President in the Chair, with the otiicial 

 cocked hat in front of him on the table, Eobert Brown on his right, 

 Richard Taylor the printer, as under-secretary, on his left, sur- 

 rounded by such men as Edward Forster, Adrian H. Haworth, W. 

 Wood, Conrad Loddiges, David Don, Eobert Sweet, Thomas BeU, 

 and John Lindley. He was also well known to a later generation, 

 for on the death of John Hunneman, of Frith Street, Soho, in 

 1839, he left his nursery business, much to the regret of his father. 



