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author also wrote upon general zoological subjects, and many of his 

 papers contain accounts of his travels in different parts of the world 

 during the voyage of the Austrian frigate ' Novara,' to which he was 

 for some time attached. He contributed to the Greographical and 

 other Societies at Vienna his reminiscences of (amongst other places) 

 Eio Janeiro, the island of St. Paul, New Zealand, Tahiti, Shanghai, 

 Manilla, Ceylon, the Cape of Good Hope, and Madras ; and in 

 the ' Transactions of the Zoologico-Botanical Society ' are to be 

 found detailed accounts of the Nicobar Islands and of the so-called 

 Sdgspdn Sea. He appears to have paid little attention to Botany ; 

 but in the year 1854 he visited the coast of Dalmatia, and in the 

 same year communicated to the Zoologico-Botanical Society a paper 

 entitled "An Enumeration of the Algse of the coast of Dalmatia." 



Herr von Frauenfeld died on the 8th of October, 1873, after a 

 short illness, supervening, we have been informed, upon a surgical 

 operation. The esteem and respect entertained for him by the 

 Society to which he had been so long attached was shown in a 

 marked manner by the attendance at his funeral, which took place 

 on the 10th of October last, when the President delivered an 

 address, in which the merits of the deceased naturalist and the 

 great services he had rendered to the Society were eloquently 

 brought forward. 



Herr von Frauenfeld was elected a Poreign Member of the 

 Linnean Society on the 5th of May, 1870. 



The Yery Eeverend Thomas G-aenieb, D.C.L., Dean of Win- 

 chester, was the senior member of the University of Oxford, and 

 one of the oldest, if not the very oldest, of that long-lived body the 

 English Clergy. He was the second son of the late Mr. George 

 Garnier, of Eookesbury Park, Hampshire, by Margaret, fourth 

 daughter of Sir John Miller, fourth baronet, of Proyle, in the same 

 county. The late Dean was born at Wickham, in Hampshire, on 

 the 26th of February, 1776. He was educated at "Winchester 

 CoUege, and afterwards at "Worcester College, Oxford, where he 

 entered in October 1793. There were no schools of classical or 

 mathematical honours in those days, and his name does not appear 

 recorded among the lists of Chancellor's prizemen ; but in November 

 1796 he was elected to a Fellowship at All Souls' CoUege. He 

 took his degree of Bachelor of Civil Law in the year 1800, some 

 five years before the late Dr. Lushiugton attained the same rank 

 in academical standing. In 1807 he was presented by his relative, 



