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year he received the prize, named after Baron Cuvier, from the French 

 Institute, and at home the Wollaston medals, in recognition of his 

 contributions to geology as an inductive science. To this it should 

 he added that, in 1859, he was rewarded by the Eoyal Society of 

 Scotland with the first Brisbane Gold Medal for his scientific classi- 

 fication of the Highland rocks, and for the establishment of the 

 remarkable fact that the cardinal gneiss of the north-west coasts is 

 the oldest rock in the strata of the British Isles. He was created a 

 baronet in January, 1866. Sir Koderick Murchison married, in. 1815, 

 Charlotte, only daughter of the late General Francis Hugonin, hut 

 was left a widower early in the year 1869. As he had no issue by 

 his marriage, his title becomes extinct by his death. 



In August 1871, Sir Roderick was seized with loss t)f speech, 

 accompanied with difficidty in swallowing. These symptoms gradu- 

 ally, however, abated, and his general health continued good for two 

 months, when he caught cold in taking a drive. This brought on a 

 slight attack of bronchitis ; and under it he gradually and quietly 

 sank, and died on the 23rd of October, 1871, leaving a name which 

 will be indissolubly associated with his many and great discoveries 

 in Geological Science. Sir Roderick was elected a Fellow of this 

 Society on the 18th of December, 1827. 



Iltyd Nicholl, of The Ham, Glamorganshire, J. P., was born 

 on the 19th of July 1785. He was the eldest son of Iltyd 

 NichoU, D.D., of The Ham (Rector of Treddington, in Worcester- 

 shire), and received the early part of his education at St. Paul's 

 School, He married, August 11th, 1807, Eleanor, only child of 

 George Bond, Esq., of Newland valley, Gloucestershire. Mr. K'ichoU 

 was High Sherifi" for Monmouthshire in 1830. He died at Bath on 

 the 22nd of October, 1871, at the age of eighty-six. Mr. Nicholl 

 was elected a Fellow of ihis Society on the 19th of February 1828. 



William Osbokise, was the proprietor of the Fulham jS'urseries, 

 well known for their extensive collection of coniferous and hardy 

 trees. Mr. Osborne was for many years a very regular attendant 

 at our Meetings. He was elected a Fellow on the 17th of January, 

 1843, and died in March of the present year. 



Berthold Seemani^^ was born on February 28, 1825, at Hanover. 

 He was educated at the Lyceum of his native town, where the 

 head-master at that time was the celebrated Grotefend, one of the 

 earliest decipherers of cuneiform writing. It was from the son of 

 this gentleman that young Seemann received his first lessons in 

 Botany, and this soon became his chief study. He early acquired 



