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ceous MoUusca in the North-east Atlantic and neighbouring seas. A 

 report on the same Mollusca, and on the physical conditions affecting 

 their development, was made by him to the British Association iu 

 1856. To the * Annals of Natural History ' Mr. MacAndrew contri- 

 buted numerous papers on the Mollusca and other marine animals 

 observed on the coasts of Spain, Portugal, Barbary, Malta, Southern 

 Italy, the Canary Isles, Madeira, and elsevs^here ; and also papers on 

 the comparative size of marine Mollusca in various latitudes of the 

 European seas, and on the division of the European seas into pro- 

 vLuces with reference to the distribution of marine Mollusca. In 

 1860 he furnished the British Association with a list of the British 

 Marine Invertebrate Fauna. His extensive and valuable collection 

 of shells is bequeathed to the University of Cambridge. Mr. Mac- 

 Andrew died at his residence, Isleworth House, on the 22nd of May, 

 1873. He was elected a Fellow of this Society on the 6th of April, 

 1847. 



Joshua Suxcliffe, of Fir Grove, Burnley, Lancashire, was born at 

 Halifax, in Yorkshire, on the 10th of AprU, 1812. He was admitted 

 a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, on the 11th of 

 May, 1835, but appears to have given up medical practice for, many 

 years past. Mr. SutclifFe was one of the oldest Fellows of the Linnean 

 Society, having been elected on the 6th of May, 1 834. He died on 

 the 10th of January, 1873. 



Dr. John Torret was bom in New York in the year 1796, and 

 from his earliest manhood was connected with the institutions of 

 science and learning in that city. His contributions to botanical 

 science commenced when he was quite young. His earliest work, 

 published by the Lyceum of Natural History in New York, was a 

 catalogue of plants growing spontaneously within 30 miles of that 

 city. This work appeared in 1819, at a time when good botanizing- 

 ground, now covered with bricks and mortar, was to be found close 

 to New York. In 1826, Dr. Torrey published a compendium of the 

 flora of the Northern and Middle States, containing generic and 

 specific descriptions of all the plants, exclusive of the Cryptogamia, 

 theretofore found in the United States north of the Potomac. Dr. 

 Torrey then extended his investigations to the Northern States east of 

 the Mississippi ; and in 1824 he produced a flora of the northern and 

 middle sections of the United States, being a systematic arrangement 

 and description of the plants then known in the United States north of 



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