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Professor Thomson remained at Glasgow till 1877, in which 

 year he became President of the British Association at Plymouth, 

 taking as the subject of his Address the " Development of tlie 

 Forma of Animal Life." Since then he resided in London until 

 his death on March 2 1st, 1884, having been elected Fellow of 

 the Linnean Society on January 15th, 1880, and F.E.S. in 1877. 

 Professor Thomson was a most amiable and courteous gentleman, 

 beloved alike by colleagues, students, and, one may probably say 

 without exaggeration, by all who had the pleasure of knowing 

 him personally. On the occasion of the transmission of his 

 remains to Scotland the President and Office-bearers of the Eoyal 

 Society assembled at the Euston Station to pay their last tribute 

 of respect ; a large number of Fellows of that Society and 

 several of the Linnean Society were also present. 



Joseph "WAUfwuiGHT died of bronchitis on April 10th, 1884, 

 at his house, Wakefield, aged 71. After leaving school he was 

 articled to Mr. Picard, a Solicitor of Wakefield, who had a large 

 practice in spite of being blind. He was admitted Solicitor in 

 1834 and married in the same year ; but his wife died in 1874, 

 leaving no issue. For many years he was a prominent Member of 

 the Yorkshire Naturalists' TJnion, and for some years its President. 

 The Wakefield Naturalists' Society was formed at his instiga- 

 tion in 1871 ; he was chosen first President, and continued such 

 until his death. He greatly delighted in cultivating plants, and 

 frequently threw open his richly stocked gardens and plant-houses 

 to the public ; he also officiated as judge at local flower-shows. 

 He was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society June 17th, 18o6. 



APPENDIX. 

 Short Memoie of Gteobge Dioxrsrus Eheet, F.E.S. 



Geokge Diontstus Ehret, son of G-eorge Ehret, Court Gardener 

 at Durlach, Baden, was born at Erfurt in 1708, or, as is stated in 

 Pilkington's ' Dictionary of Painters,' in 1710. Some account of 

 his career is given in that work, and also in Dr. Pulteney's 

 ' Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany 

 in England ' (1790). From these accounts it appears that after 

 having been taken by the hand by Dr. Trew, of Nuremberg, for 

 whom he subsequently executed the engravings in the ' Plants 

 Selectee,' he practised his art and continued his botanical studies 

 at Basle, Montpellier, Lyons, Paris, and Haarlem. To this latter 

 place he returned after a short sojourn in London, and it was 

 there that he Avas found by Linnaeus, with whom he cooperated 

 in the production of the ' Hortus Clifi'ortianus,' published at 

 Haarlem in 1737. 



