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of the Zoological Society in 1859. He was for several years 

 President of the Eoyal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius, 

 and was an original Member of the Board of Grovemors of the 

 Institute of Jamaica on its establishment in 1879 : he was made 

 a C.M.a. in 1875 and K.C.M.G. ia 1887. He died at Lowestoft 

 on the 2oth of April, 1897, in his sixty-fifth year; his Natural 

 History collections had been for several years deposited in the 

 Museum of the University of Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow 

 of the Linnean Society on the 6th of June, 1867. [A. N.] 



Chaeles Packe was the eldest son of Captain Edmund Packe, 

 of the Eoyal Horse Guards. Born in 1826, he was educated 

 at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, taking his degree in 1849. 

 Having entered at the Inner Temple in 1847, he was called to 

 the Bar in 1852, but never practised seriously, the charms of 

 travel having early gained an ascendenf>y in his mind. In 1857 

 he published his 'Spirit of Travel,' showing that he had alreadv 

 become familiar with the Swiss and French Alps ; subsequently 

 he devoted most of his holiday tours to the Pyrenees, of which 

 he produced a ' Guide ' in 1862, which to this day has not been 

 superseded. To perform this task, he actually spent a winter at 

 Gavarnie, when wood was so scarce that the kitchen-fire was the 

 only one in the house. 



In 1867 his uncle, Charles "William Packe, of Prestwold, died 

 and left him owner of Stretton Hall, Great Glen, and of the 

 Branksome Towner estate at Bournemouth : he could not keep 

 both, so selected the former as having been longer in the family 

 than the latter ; had he selected otherwise, he would have been a 

 millionaire ; but he never regretted his choice, his means were 

 ample for his wants, books, travelling, and scientific instruments. 

 His constitution was wonderful : he rejoiced to sleep in the 

 open air among the mountains in his sheepskin-bag ; and while 

 his frame seemed feeble, his endurance was marvellous. He 

 delighted to botanize amongst his beloved Pyrenees, and would 

 take long journeys in search of some fancied plant for his alpine 

 garden in Leicestershire. 



He was elected Fellow of this Society 7th April, 1870, but did 

 not contribute to our publications, though the writer of this 

 memoir remembers him once making a short speech at a meeting 

 in 1874 or thereabout. He died on the 16Lh July, 1896. 



David EoBEETSoiir, LL.D. — The oldest Member whose loss we 

 have to mourn at this Anniversary Meeting was the venerable 

 Dr. David Eobertson, who died within a week of reaching 90. 

 He was born in Glasgow, 28th Nov., 1806, and died at Millport, 

 Cumbrae, 20th Nov., 1896. After a struggle with adverse cir- 

 cumstances, he began a medical career, abandoned it, took to 

 commerce, and when 54 years of age he was able to devote his 

 whole time to marine zoology and botany. In company with 

 Dr. John Murray, of the ' Challenger ' Expedition, he dredged 



