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Mr. KipjDJst's long and faithful services of more than fifty 

 years have already met with formal acknowledgment at the hands 

 of the Fellows ; but a few words in reiteration of the same will 

 not he deemed out of place. No one could more thoroughly 

 identify himself wdth the Society's interests than did our late 

 Librarian ; the welfare of the Society, its dignity, and import- 

 ance w'ere his first objects of regard. Precise and methodical 

 almost to a fault, his scrupulous care and love of accuracy quite 

 excused his seemingly rigid punctiliousness ; and the news of 

 his death called forth expressions of the sincerest regrets from 

 all who remembered his lengthened and devoted services. He 

 was buried at Brompton Cemetery on January 21st, the present 

 Librarian, Dr. Murie, and the Assistant, Mr. James West, 

 attending. 



Henet Reeks was born at Standen near Hungerford, Berks, on 

 March 15th, 1838. During the greater part of his life he lived 

 at the Manor House, Thruxton, Andover, where he died on 

 Monday, 20th February of the current jear. Early in June 1866 

 he left England on an ornithological trip to Newfoundland ; during 

 it he met with severe frost-bite, and, surgical aid not being at hand, 

 courageously amputated his own toes ; he therefore remained 

 partially crippled during the remainder of his life. Whilst on 

 his sick-bed, he compiled a list of flowering-plants and ferns of 

 Newfoundland, with meteorological observations, which was read 

 before this Society December 2, 1869. 



His remarks on the zoology of the same region were pub- 

 lished in the ' Zoologist ' of April 1869 ; also notes of rare eggs 

 from North America. He likewise drew up a list of the flower- 

 ing-plants, ferns, and mosses observed in the parish of East 

 Woodhay, contributed towards the flora of the district, and pub- 

 lished in the ' Eeport of tlie Newbury District Field Club' for 

 1870-71. He published notes on the Mammals of Shakespeare 

 in the ' Zoologist ' for 1878, the last paper known to the compiler. 

 His death happened unexpectedly, after four days' illness, result- 

 ing, it is believed, from close attention to his wife, who was con- 

 fined to her bed by quinsy. As an all-round naturalist, his loss 

 was greatly deplored by those who knew and esteemed him. 



Geoege Rolleston was the son of a Yorkshire clergyman, and 

 born at Maltby on July 80, 1829. He entered at Pembroke 

 College, Oxford, after early private tuition, took a First Class 

 in Classics in 1850, and was elected Fellow of his College 

 in 1851. He studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital 

 and served at Smyrna in the British Hospital there, but resumed 

 his residence at Oxford on being appointed Lee's Eeader in Ana- 

 tomy at Christ Church. La 1860 he was appointed first Linacre 

 Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, which he held to the time 

 of his death. The work by which he is most widely known is his 

 ' Forms of Animal Life,' issued from the Clarendon Press iu 1870 • 

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