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Huxley was also a Pellow of the Zoological Society and a 

 Member of several other scientific Societies. He was a Foreign 

 and Corresponding Member of several Foreign Academies and 

 Societies ; and distinctions were bestowed upon him by English 

 and Foreign Uuiversities. He served on Eoyal Commissions of 

 Inquiry into the Advancement of Science, Vivisection, Contagious 

 Diseases, and Fisheries, and held office as H.M. Inspector of 

 Salmon Fisheries. 



For two years he was a leading Member of the School Board 

 for London ; and a short time before his death he was sworn a 

 Member of H.M. Privy Council. 



He died at Eastbourne, Sussex, on June 29th, 1895, in his 71st 

 year, after a complicated attack of ' influenza' — manly, patient, 

 loving to the end, truly " a permanent glory of the English race." 



His election as a Fellow of the Linnean Society dated from 

 16th December, 1858 ; and in 1890 he was awarded the Society's 

 Gold Medal. 



WiNSLOw Jokes was born in 1815 ; educated for a solicitor, 

 he practised at first alone, and afterwards in partnership in his 

 native town of Exeter. His special taste lay in the direction of 

 rare and fine trees ; and in order to gratify it he visited Lebanon, 

 the Tosemite Valley, and other distant localities. 



On his retirement into private life, some twenty years ago, he 

 devoted himself entirely to his favourite pursuits, with especial 

 regard to genealogy, devoting much time to the study of the 

 history of the families and worthies of Exeter and S. Devon. 



He wrote a few papers in the ' Transactions of the Devon Asso- 

 ciation,' and contributed notes of interest to an Exeter journal, 

 and did good service by assisting others in the preparation of 

 books and reports demanding a special knowledge of the history 

 of the West of England. 



He died on July 30th, in his 81st year. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Society, November 20th, 1879. 



Maemadtjke AiEXAis'DEE, Lawsok, M.A., Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge (1864), was born on 20th January, 1840, at Seaton Carew, 

 Durham. In 1868 he was appointed Sherardian Professor of 

 Botany, and Sibthorpian Professor of Eural Economy, at Oxford, 

 which he held till 1882, when he accepted the post of Director of the 

 Botanical Department, Ootacamund. In the year of his appoint- 

 ment to Oxford he spent some time in Skye, and published an 

 account of the plants he found there in the ' Journal of Botany' 

 for the following year, when also he was elected Fellow of this 

 Society. He worked up Combretaceae and Myrtaceae for the 

 second volume of Oliver's ' Flora of Tropical Africa,' and the 

 Celastrinese, Hhamneae, and Ampelidese for the first volume of 

 Sir Joseph Hooker's ' Flora of British India.' In the year of his 

 relinquishing the Oxford appointments, 1882, he delivered an 

 address on the Progress of Systematic Botany to the Section of 



