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of Sir William Hartopp, Bart. He died at Great Barr Hall, 



Staffordshire, on 18tli March, 1884, of a relapse of peritonitis. 

 He was elected Fellow of this Society 3rd March, 1881. 



Edwaed Sheppard was born in 1816, and died at Kensington 

 after a short illness 8th September, 1883, two months after his 

 retirement from the post of Collector of Customs for the Port of 

 London. He had given for many years much attention to the 

 Colcoptera, although latterly he had refrained from active pursuit 

 of any branch of entomology. He was elected Fellow April 7tl), 

 1859. He never married; but a large number of private friends 

 regret the loss of his genial friendship. 



Peter Squire was born at Stratton in Bedfordshire in 1798, 

 and died on A[)ril Gth, 1884, at the age of 85. He was appren- 

 ticed, on leaving school at the age of 14, to a chemist and druggist 

 at Peterborough, and then gave all his spare time to studying the 

 folio edition of Sir John Hill's ' Herbal,' and the plants lie could 

 collect before business hours. He then came to Loudon and 

 filled several situations, and studied chemistry, attending the 

 lectures which Brande and Faraday delivered to the Students of 

 St. Greorge's Hospital. After this he spent some time in Paris, 

 acquiring an insight into French pharmacy. 



In 1831, or thereabouts, Mr. Squire bought the business in 

 Oxford Street with which he was associated for more than half a 

 century. He turned his attention to improving medicinal ex- 

 tracts, and had to devote many hours after eleven at night to 

 that inquiry. His successful researches brought him into note ; 

 and Sir James (then Dr.) Clark was instrumental in procuring 

 his appointment as chemist to H.R.H. the Princess Victoria in 

 the year before her accession, followed by the formal appoint- 

 ment on Her Majesty ascending the throne in 1837. This post 

 he held during forty years. 



He was twice President of the Pharmaceutical Society, and 

 published many papers and books (ii matters connected with his 

 calling. His latest scientific work seems to have been on a 

 method of preserving the freshwater Medusa found in Ihe A^ictoria 

 tank at Eegeut's Park, which paper was read last July 9th before 

 the Royal Microscopical Society. 



He was elected F.L.S. February 4th, 1858 ; died of congestion 

 ()f the lungs on the day stated above; and was buried at Kensal 

 Green 12th April, 1884. 



Allen Thomson, F.E..S., was the son of John Thomson, a 

 distinguished physician at Edinburgh, and was born there on 

 April 2nd, 1809. His father was the occupant of the Chairs 

 of Military Surgery and of Pathologv in the University, so that 

 the young boy was reared in an academic aiid scientific atmo- 

 sphere. He graduated M.D. at Edinburgh in 1830, the next 



