PKOCEEDINGS OF THE 



mentioned above, Dr. Miquel contributed to a revision of the Phar- 

 macopoeia of the Netherlands, which was completed just before his 

 death, but of which he did not live to see the publication. He was 

 a member of most of the scientific societies of Europe, and in 

 May 1850 he was appointed Doctor of Natural Science in the 

 University of Groningen ; he received also the orders of the Lion of 

 the Netherlands, and of the North Star of Sweden, as well as the 

 Austrian Order of Prancis Joseph. He was elected a Foreign 

 Member of the Linnean Society on the 2nd of May 1854. 



EiCHAED Peek, LL.D., was the second son of William Peek, 

 Esq., of Balham Hill, Surrey. He was born in 1831, and edu- 

 cated for the law. He retired from practice some years ago, and 

 devoted himself to the good of the poor in Brighton, and, in con- 

 junction with the Rev. E. Clay, he did much to improve the con- 

 dition of the fishermen. He was also an active member of the 

 Board of Guardians, and the author of several pamphlets on the 

 Poor Laws, being a great advocate for equalization of the poor- 

 rates and other social improvements. He devoted much atten- 

 tion to the subject of Ichthyology, and published several papers 

 on that branch of natural history. He died at his country resi- 

 dence, St. Clair, Hayward's Heath, after a very short iUness, of con- 

 gestion of the lungs, on the 14th of April 1871. He was elected a 

 Fellow of this Society on the 21st of April 1864. 



Chakles Augustus Eobinson, F.R.C.S., was for a short time 

 Eesident Medical Officer at St. Peter's Hospital, Berners-street. 

 He afterwards left England and went to Kingston, in Jamaica, where 

 he died on the 20th of June 1870. He was elected a Fellow of 

 this Society on the 20th of January 1870, so that his name never 

 appeared in the printed List of Fellows, 



John Gould Veitch was born at Exeter, in April 1839. He de- 

 voted himself at an early age to the business of a nurseryman, and 

 took an active part in the management of his father's estabhshment 

 at Chelsea. In 1860, almost as soon as he had attained his majority, 

 he started on a voyage to Japan and China, whence he proceeded 

 to the Philippine Islands. The result of this journey was the intro- 

 duction to England of many choice plants, among which may be 

 mentioned the lovely Primula cortusoides amoena, and several hand- 

 some Conifers, such as Abies firma, Abies Alcoquiana, and Cryptomeria 

 elegans, besides Lilium auratum, Ampelopsis tricuspidata ( Yeitcliii), 

 A.japoniea, and other plants. In 1864 he started for Australia and 

 the South Sea Islands, whence he returned in February 1866, after 

 an absence of eighteen or twenty months, bringing with him some 



