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honours began to flow in upon liim. In 1863 he had received 

 the bestoAvmeut of a Dloyal Medal; and in 1879, forty-three 

 years after his first important work, with unceasing contributions 

 of the greatest value to mycologic literature, he was elected to 

 the Fello\vsl)ip of the lloyal Society. We have had the honour 

 of bearing Berkeley's name on our roll since April 19th, 1836. 



For some years past Mr. Berkeley's health had been declining, 

 and his contributions to science had at length quite ceased ; 

 it was therefore with no feelings of surprise, but only with 

 regret, that intelligence came of his death on 30th July, 1889, at 

 Sibbcrtoft, near Market Harborough. The Society possesses a 

 portrait, which hangs in the meeting-room, and a woodcut ap- 

 |)eured some years since in the ' Gardeners' Chronicle.' The 

 h(!rbai'ium, accumulated during his laborious life, is now at Kew, 

 to wliich institution he also presented his books, a few months 

 after he had given his plants. 



There is one feature of his career which must nut be past^ed 

 uver in silence. Mr. Bentham has stated in this room that the 

 whole of tlie proofs of the ' Grencra Platitarum ' were read criti- 

 cally by Mr. Berkeley with a view of correcting any faults in the 

 latinity of tbat great work. 



The Hon. and Eev. John Townsuend Boscawen, younger 

 brother of the 6th Viscount Falmouth, and uncle to the present 

 holder of that title, was born in the year 1820, and in later 

 times was very proud of his descent from John Evelyn, of 

 Wootou. He was an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Cam- 

 biidge, and took his degree of B.A. in 1845. In 1817 he receivKd 

 his title to orders, and was ordained deacon, taking priest's orders 

 in 1819; three years later, in 1852, he proceeded M.A. Since 

 1849 he held the rectory of Lamorran, Probus, Cornwall, and 

 threw himself with great spirit into horticultural matters. He 

 was for some time a member of the Council of the Eoyal Horti- 

 cultural Society, but retired when he found that some of his 

 projects did not find favour with tlie majority of his colleagues. 

 His election was of comparativelv recent date, 18th March, 1886. 

 lie died 6th July, 1889. 



Benjamin Clabke was born at Saffron Walden, Essex, on Septem- 

 ber 5th, 1813, and died at Hampstead of apoplexy on February 

 4th, 1890. He regularly entered the medical profession, but 

 devoted himself from his youth to the study of natural history, 

 especially botany. Out of the 19 papers which stand in his name 

 in the lloyal Society Catalogue, 5 are in the publications of this 

 Society. His two papers in the 'Transactions," vol. xxii. (1859), 

 are illustrated by a fine plate, t. 68, drawn by himself. His period 

 of greatest botanic activity was 1849-65. During the last 25 

 years of his life liis ])rincipal botanic work has been producing 

 and im[)roving his work, ' The Natural System of Botany,' — a 

 work which is the record of a great mass of skilful dissections, 



