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decease. Willi this post, he held the miuor offices of Examiuer 

 and Superiuteiideiit of the Botanic Gardeaa, the last-named 

 post having been specially created for him by the 8cieuce and 

 Art Department in 1S80. He contributed to the ])ages of our 

 'Transactions ' a paper on the flowers of the IVelwitschia, which 

 came out in 1873. Ili.s origuial contributions to scientific liter- 

 ature were on the morphology and physiology of plants, but he 

 also drew up two little text-books, one on Classification and the 

 other on Morphology and Physiology, the latter presenting in a 

 succinct form the modern method of botanical teaching as prac- 

 tised on the Continent. 



He died suddenly of heart disease at Dublin, on December 3rd, 

 1889. He was elected Fellow of the Linueau Society, 7th Juue, 

 1877. 



Christopher Kice Mansicl Talbot was born at Peurice Castle, 

 Oxwich, on May 10th, 1803. He was the eldest son of the late 

 Mr. Tliomas Mansel Talbot of Margam by his marriage with 

 Lady Mary Lucy, daughter of the second Earl of Ilchester. He 

 was educated at Harrow and Oxford, where he graduated in 1824, 

 after taking a first class in mathematics. He succeeded to the 

 family estates in 1824. Mr. Talbot gained the honour of being 

 Father of the House of Commons after an experience which is 

 almost unprecedented, for he sat for the same constituency for 

 the long ])eriod of fifty-nine years. Mr. Talbot was a Fellow of 

 the Euyal (Society. He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 

 1850, and died January 17th, 1890. 



Sir James Tyler was born in 1816. For ten years, from 1843 

 to 1853, he was connected with the Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, 

 aud he was knighted in 1851, shortly after his appointment as 

 lieutenant of that Corps. One of his latest acts was a donation 

 of £1000 to the Building-fund of the Bethnal Grreen Free 

 Library. He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1869. He 

 died April 5th, 1890. 



Julian Edmund Tenison- Woods, born in 1832, was a son of the 

 late Mr. J. D. Woods, Q.C., a well-kuown member of the 

 literary etaft' of ' The Times.' He studied at Oxford, and, falling 

 under the influence of the leaders of the Tractarian movement, he 

 seceded from the Church of England and joined that of Rome. 

 He subsequently qualified himself for its ministry and was or- 

 dained about 1856. Previous to his ordination he had visited 

 Tasmania for the benefit of his health, and, finding the climate 

 suitable, he decided to settle in Australia. He there acepted the 

 charge of a pastoral diocese, and was activel}'^ engaged in mission- 

 ary work throughout the remainder of his life, and he was ulti- 

 mately appointed Vicar-General of Adelaide. 



In AusLialia his natural tendency towards science found full 



