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1818. Atthe request of Eiirl Bathurst, he undertook tlie office of Colonial 

 Secretiirv to the Govcrnnieut of New South "Wales in 1825. Was appointed 

 first Speaker of the Legislative Couneil in 1843. Mr. MacLeay was elected 

 a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1794, and succeeded our first Secretary, 

 Mr. Marshani, in 17^8, dischargin<> the duties of this office for twenty- 

 seven years, until he left for New South Wales, when the Society expressed 

 to him their high estimation of his unremitting and unrequited labours, and 

 assured him that he carried with him the cordial esteem and sincere regret 

 of the Fellows. ^Mr. MacLeay had an intimate know ledge of insects, and 

 possessed an extensive and fine collection. His great work was the ' Horae 

 EntomologiCcC,' in which he published his quinary system of classification. 

 He was the first who clearly pointed out the difference between analogies 

 and affinities. 



Fbancis Masson. 1711-1805. 



Portrait, painter unlaiow-n. — Presented hv Wm. Carrutliers. 

 20 Jan., 1887. 



Masson was for some time a gardener at Kevv. He was sent out in 177-, 

 at the suggestion of Sir Joseph Banks, to the Cape of Good Hope to collect 

 seeds and plants for the Royal Gardens. After a visit to England, he again 

 left in 177fi, visitnig Madeira, the Canary Isles, several of the West Indies, 

 then Portugal, and finally reaching again the Cape. In 17^5 he returned 

 to England, and published his ' Stapelise Nova3.' In 1797 he went to 

 America to collect new plants, and, after travelling about, he reached 

 Montreal, where he died in December 1805. He was elected a Fellow, 

 1796. 



William George Maton, M.D., F.E.W. 1774-1835. 



Cast of Bust by W. Belmes. — Presented by Eobcrt Brown. 



Maton was a distinguished British naturalist. He published a volume on 

 the Natural History of the Western Counties in 1797; and a posthumous 

 work on the Natural History of Wiltshire appeared in 1843. He was 

 elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1794. 



AncniBALD Menzies. 1754-1812. 



Portrait by Mr. Eddis. — Presented by Subscribers, 15 Nov., 

 183G. 



Was Naturalist and Surgeon on board the ' Discovery,' under Van- 

 couver, and visited Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, the Sandwich Islands , 

 and North-West America, bringing home extensive collections which he 

 freely communicated to scientific workers. He pul)lished in the Trans- 

 actions of the Society a valuable monograph of the genus Polyirichuni. 

 Early in the century he settled as a medical man in London, still coa- 

 tiuuing to devote his leisure to botanical i)nrsuits. He was elected a 

 I'Y'Uow of the Linnean Society in 1790. He died at Notting Ilill in his 

 88th year. 



John Miers, F.R.S. 1789-1879. 



A small Oil-painting from a photograph. — Presented by bis son, 

 Mr. J. W. Miers, 24 June, 1881. 



Early in life Mr. Miers went to South Ainerica, and while carrying onim- 

 jtortant professional work he found time to make extensive collections of 

 |)lants, and recorded many ol)sc'rvations regarding their structure and 

 habits in his journeys across that continent. lie returned to England in 



