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He was in 1872 awarded a Silver Medal by the Zoological 

 Society, in recognition of his services in rearing the Hippo- 

 potamus ' Guy Fawkes,' born in the Gardens, wliich afterwards 

 lived for a period of 10 years. 



He was elected au Associate of the Linnean Society on 

 December 18th, 1879 ; and died on the 7tli May, 1897, alter 

 a lingering illness, at the advanced age of 85. 



William Beocebank was born in 1830 near Manchester (?) 

 and followed the profession of his fatlier, a civil engineer. His 

 delight was in his garden at Brockhurst, Didsbury. He 

 published few strictly botanical papers, though several times he 

 entered into discussions on gardening topics ; his contributions 

 to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society were 

 chiefly on botanical aud geological points. He died on 

 25th September, 1896, at Didsbury, and was buried in the 

 grounds of the Friends' Meeting House at Ashton-on-Mersey. 

 He became a Fellow of this Society 20th March, 1884;, and was a 

 Fellow also of the Geological and Eoyal Horticultural Societies. 



JoHK Geiete, M.D., F.E.S.E., was born at Glasgow. An ardent 

 collector and observant marine zoologist, he was lor over 40 years 

 an active member of the Glasgow Natural History Society, to the 

 'Transactions' of which he commuuicated numerous papers. 

 He was an associate of the late veteran, David Eobertson, the 

 'Naturalist ot" the Cumbraes,' witli whom he in 18(34< published 

 a paper, " On the distribution of Marine Algae on the Clyde 

 Lights Trust buoys in the Clyde." 



He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on l^Qth March, 

 1885, and died 16th April, 1896. 



Thomas Hick, the last elected Associate of our Society, 

 passed away on 31st July, 1896, at the house of his son Dr. Hick 

 at Bradford. He was a native of Leeds, where he was born on 

 5th May, 1840. The accidental loss of several fingers of the left 

 hand disqualified him from his original mill-employment, and he 

 became a teacher, securing the post of head-master of the Royal 

 Lancastrian School, Leeds, and then Assistant-Lecturer in 

 Botany at Owens College, Manchester, in 1885. Here he came 

 into close connection with Prof. W. C. Williamson, with whom 

 he worked in great cordiality. His onij' contributions to our 

 publications are on fossil botany. It is intended to acquire his 

 fossil collection for Owens College as the Hick collection. 



EoBEET Hogg, LL.D. — The death of Dr. Eobert Hogg on the 

 1-ith March, 1897, removes from our midst a botanist wMiom 

 circumstances made a horticultural and pomological authority. 

 He was born at Coldstream in 1818, and was thus in his 70th 



