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CATALOGUE OF THE FOETEAITS OF FELLOWS etc. 

 BELONGINO TO THE SOCIETY. 



Louis John Rudolph Aoassiz. 1807-1873. 



Cast of bust by Hiram Power, iu the Museum of Comparative 

 Anatomy, Cambridge, U.S. — Presented by the Sculptor's 

 son, 21 May, 1883. 



Wlieii studying at Munich in 1826 he had placed in his hands, on the death 

 of Spix, the collection of fishes made by that traveller and Martins in Brazil. 

 Tliis led to his study of Ichthyology, and to tlie publication not onl}' of 

 this Collection from Brazil, but of an luifiuished work by Sjjix on the 

 freshwater fishes of C entral Europe, and of his great work ' Fossil Fishes.' 

 His paheontological labours were afterwards directed to Echiuoderms and 

 Molluscs. His study of glaciers gave a m\v direction to post-Tertiary 

 Geology. Agassiz was elected a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society 

 iu 1844. In 1816 he went to America, having been appointed to a 

 Chair at Harvard. He devoted himself with his accustomed ardour to 

 investigations and problems connected with the New World. He died in 

 December, 1873. 



Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., P.K.S. 1743-1820. 



Portrait by Thomas Phillips, R.A. — Presented by Capt. Sir E. 

 Home, Bart., li.N., 21 May, 1819. 



Marble Bust by Sir Frauds Cliautrey. — Presented by Sub- 

 scribers, 21 May, 1822. 



Cast from the bronze Bust by the Hou. Mrs. Darner in the 

 Banksian Library, British Museum. — Presented by J. J. 

 Bennett, Esq., 3 JN"ov., 1859. 



When Banks came of age he visited Newfoundland, and explored the 

 botany of that island and of the shore of Lapland. AVith Dr. Solander as 

 his companion and a band of assistants he accompanied Capt. Cook in 

 his first voyage round the world, forming extensive collections. He was 

 disappointed in not being able to join Cook in his second voyage. He 

 visited Iceland and Staffa in 1772. In 1778 he was elected President of 

 the Royal Society, occupying the Chair till his death in 1820. He was 

 the first Honorary Member of the Linnean Society, and liberally assisted 

 it in its earliest years. His house was the great centre in Ijondoii for 

 naturalists. His Herbarium and Library, which were freely opened to all 

 inquirers, were bequeathed to the British Museum after Mr. Brown's 

 death, uuder conditions which enabled Mr. Brown to transfer them to the 

 Museum iu 1827. 



Et. Eev. Shute Bahrington, LL.D., Bishop of Durham. 1731- 

 1826. 

 Cast of a Bust by Abraham Behnes. — Presented by J. J. 

 Bennett, Esq., 3 Nov., 1859. 



Dr. Barrington was Bishop of LlandatF, then of Salisbury, and finally of 



