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he generously sent the Society a cheque for 20 guineas, being 

 double the amount for which he was entitled to compound. 



He died on the 29th of June, 1873, at the Close at Winchester, 

 at the age of 97. 



Albany Hakcock was a naturalist who made the district in 

 which he resided famous in scientific circles. He was one of the 

 founders of the Natural-History Society of Newcastle, and always 

 took an active interest in its welfare, enriching the Museum of 

 the Society by his untiring exertions, and being always ready to aid 

 by his judgment and advice the arrangement of its collections. 

 He was one of the founders of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field- 

 Club, and was a constant contributor to its Transactions. He 

 was also a Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society 

 of Newcastle, and for many years a Member of its Committee. 

 At the Meeting of the British Association in Newcastle in. 1863 

 he was an active Member of the Local Committee ; and to his 

 eiforts, aided by those of his brothei', Mr. John Hancock, was 

 mainly due the gathering together of the splendid collection of 

 works of art and science which graced the exhibition during 

 the visit of the Association. His papers in the ' Transac- 

 tions ' of the Tyneside Field- Club and the ' Natural-History 

 Transactions' are many and valuable, amongst which may be 

 mentioned those written in conjunction with his friends Mr, 

 Thomas Atthey and Mr. E. Howse, " On the Fauna of the Coal- 

 Measures and Marl-Slate of the District around Newcastle." 

 But his contributions were not confined to the Transactions of the 

 scientific societies of the neighbourhood in which he lived. The 

 ' Philosophical Transactions,' and the Transactions of the Lin- 

 nean, Zoological, and Geological Societies, and the 'Annals of 

 Natural History ' afford abundant evidence of his scientific acti- 

 vity ; and his great abilities as a draughtsman enabled him to illus- 

 trate his papers with plates of unusual beauty. His gi*eatest work, 

 written in conjunction with his friend Mr. Joshua Alder, and 

 published by the Eay Society, is a ' Monograph of the British 

 Nudibranchiate Mollusca.' This work, which was finished in 1855, 

 won at once for its authors a world-wide recantation, and was cer- 

 tainly one of the finest monographs ever published in this or any 

 other country. The plates which accompany this work are too 

 well known to naturalists to require any special mention ; and those 

 illustrative of anatomical details display Mr. Hancock's ability in 



