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of Mr. Leonard Horrer, and sister of Lady Lyell. This family 

 connection with Sir Charles Lyell appears to have drawn much 

 of his attention from Botany to Geology, and at one time he 

 seriously thought of bringing out a new edition of Lindley and 

 Hutton's ' Fossil Flora of Great Britain.' 



Testimony to Sir C. Bunbury's attainments as a geologist will 

 be found in Proc. Geol. Soc. (1887) pp. 39, 40. He was elected 

 Fellow of our Society November 19, 1S33, so that he was one of 

 the oldest Fellows on our Eoll. He contributed two botauical 

 papers to our Journal, the earlier, on Madeira plants, being the 

 first paper of the first volume of that publication. He died 

 June 19, 1886. 



Geoege Busk, the second son of Mr. Robert Busk, of St. 

 Petersburg, was born in 1807. He was educated for the medical 

 profession, and on the completion of his studies gained the 

 appointment of surgeon to the hospital-ship 'Dreadnought.' 

 He held this post for twenty-five years, and discharged its duties 

 in a manner which has placed him amongst the foremost members 

 of his profession. In 1856 he resigned his appointment and 

 retired from practice, for the purpose of devoting" himself to 

 scientific work. From that time until his death his contributions 

 to Biology have been many and important. 



His researches were mainly concerned with tlie lower forms of 

 life, and it is with the Polyzoa that his name will always be 

 specially associated, for not only was he the first to formulate a 

 scientific arrangement of the group and to ^^oint out structural 

 characters upon which a philosophical classification could be 

 based, but his additions to our knowledge of the Polyzoa as a 

 whole will justly rank amongst the classics of moderu Natural 

 History. His first important work on the Polyzoa appeared in 

 1856 as an article in the ' English Cyclopaedia,' in which he gave 

 an exhaustive account of the structure of the group. This was 

 followed by an ' Illustrated Catalogue of the Polyzoa contained 

 in the collection of the British Museum ;' a ' Eeport on the Poly- 

 zoa and Hydroids collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Eattle- 

 snake ;' a ' Monograph of the Fossil Polyzoa of tlie Crag,' 

 published by the Palseontographical Society; and, finally, a ' Re- 

 port on the Polyzoa collected during the voyage of H.M.S. 

 Challenger.' This was his last work, the concluding part 

 being only finished just before his death, and he unhappily did 

 not live to see the sheets through the press. 



Mr. Busk's investigations were by no means confined to the 

 lower forms of life. In 1864 he accompanied Dr. Falconer to 

 investigate the caves of Gibraltar, and a mouograjih embodying 

 their results was subsequently published. His other palseonto- 

 logical publications comprise papers on the dentition of fossil 

 Bears, on the extinct species of Elephant collected by Captain 

 Spratt in the ossiferous caverns of Zebbug in the island of Malta, 



