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in the present year, having been elected a Eoreigu Member on the 

 7th of May, 1844. 



Mr. Philip Barnes died on the 24th of February, 1874, at the 

 age of 82. He was a native of Norwich, and a cousin of the 

 Sowerbys. Thirty -four years ago he founded the Eoyal Botanic 

 Gardens in the Eegent's Part, and at the time of his death he was 

 the oldest Fellow of the Liunean Society, having been elected on 

 the 16th of March, 1824. 



Fbedeeic Bied, Doctor of Medicine, was elected an Associate 

 of the Linnean Society in March 1840, and became a Fellow on 

 the 4th of December, 1872. He took the degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine at St. Andrews in 1841, in which year he also became a 

 Fellow of tho Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh. In 

 1859 he was elected a Member of the Eoyal College of Physicians 

 of London. 



Dr. Bird was Lecturer on Midwifery and Diseases of Women 

 and Obstetric Physician to Westminster Hospital. He was also 

 Senior Physician to the Westminster Maternal Charity and the 

 Metropolitan Free Hospital. He was the author of papers in the 

 ' Medical Gazette ' on the successful removal of ovarian tumours, 

 and also of reports in the ' Medical Times ' on the practice illus- 

 trative of the diagnosis, treatment, and pathology of ovarian 

 tumours. He died on the 28th of April, 1874, at the age of 56. 



Henet Deane was born at Stratford, in the parish of West Ham 

 in Essex, on the 11th of August, 1807. His parents being members 

 of the Society of Friends, he was brought up in that persuasion 

 and continued a Member thereof until his marriage in 1843. His 

 father sent him to a large Friends' school at Epping, conducted by 

 Isaac Payne, where, amongst his other schoolfellows, were Henry 

 and Edwin Doubleday, who have since become so distiuguished as 

 entomologists. Their father was fond of collecting birds and insects, 

 and the sons followed his tastes, and they in their turn communi- 

 cated the same to many of their companions, Mr. Deane amongst 

 the number. 



From the time he left school in 1821, he was for four years 

 without any special education. His father's business was neither 

 suited to his taste nor physical constitution, and he did but little 

 in it. This state of inactivity would have been injurious to his 



