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great work, the 'Flora Oriental is,' was completed in five thick 

 8vo Tolumes ; its range extends over parts of Greece and Turkey, 

 Crimea. Lower Egypt, Asia Minor, Armenia, parts of Turkestan, 

 Persia, Afghanistan, and the borders of India. Its issue extended 

 from 1867-84. The author was at work on a supplementary volume 

 when death stepped in. He was elected Foreign Member May 5, 

 18G0. 



It was a noble life shadowed by an early loss, and in later years 

 worn by pain— tlie manly life of one who lived simply and wrought 

 industriously where many others, with his independent fortune, 

 would have lived idly and luxuriously. He was also a loyal and 

 public-spirited citizen, taking his sliare of personal service for 

 the State. He was a man of fine presence, and of much bodily 

 vigour till past middle life. His botanical work was confined to 

 systematic work only, wilh perhaps a faculty for over-discrimi- 

 nation. Xo one living knew the Eastern plants so Avell or could 

 describe them better ; and his herbarium is rich in his types. 



He died at his ancestral home, Valevres, Sept. 25, 1885. 

 Geohge Draxsfield Brown was born about the year 1828, 

 and died at Ealing July 17, 1885. Educated for the medical 

 profession, he studied at St. Thomas's Hospital with distinction, 

 and was prizeman of his year. He was afterwards established 

 in practice in Ealing. He devoted much attention to natural 

 historv, taking special interest in cryptogamic botany and in 

 British Polyzoa, recent and fossil. He was a Member of the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons, F.B-.M.S., and was elected a Fellow 

 of this Society in 187(3. 



By the death of Dr. William Bexjamix Cakpexter on 

 November 10, 1885, this Society lost one of its most distinguished 

 FelliiWs, whose name will stand jjrominent in the records of 

 research as a pioneer of the present age of science, and will 

 occuj^y an unchallftnged place amongst the foremost thinkers of 

 our time. He was the eldest son of Dr. Lant Carpenter, an 

 eminent Unitarian divine. Born in Exeter, October 29, 1813, 

 William Benjamin Carpenter was educated under his father's care, 

 and afterwai-ds entered the Bristol School of Medicine, from which 

 he passed to University College, London. He then j)roceeded to 

 the University of Edinburgli, and graduated there as M.D. in 

 1839. He commenced practice in Brist(d, holding at the same 

 time lectureships on Medical Jurisprudence and Animal and 

 Vegetable Physiology ; but in the course of a few years he 

 resolved to devote himself to the scientific rather tlian the 

 practical side of his profession, and with tliat intention removed 

 to London in 1845. Here he held the appointments of Fulleriau 

 Professor of Physiology in the Koyal Institution, Lecturer oa 

 Physiology at the Medical School of the Loudon Hospital ; 

 afterwards Examiner in Physiology and Comparative Anatomy 

 in the University of London, and Professor of Medical Juris- 

 prudence iu University College. He was a^jpointed Registrar of 



