104 Linnean Society. [May 24, 



Of all his predecessors, Ehret alone approaches him in these par- 

 ticulars ; among his contemporaries, none but his brother Ferdinand 

 can be regarded as his equal. 



Mr. Bauer became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1804, and 

 of the Royal Society in 1820. He died at his residence on Kew- 

 Green on the 11th of December last, in the 83rd year of his age ; 

 and was buried in the church-yard of that parish on the 1 6th of the 

 same month. 



Sir Anthony Carlisle, Knt., F.R.S., 8fC., a distinguished surgeon 

 and physiologist, was born at Stillington, in the county of Durham, 

 on the 8th of February, 1769, and received his early professional 

 education partly at York and partly at Durham. He afterwards 

 came to London, entered himself as a student at the Hunterian 

 School under Cruickshank and Baillie, and became a resident pupil 

 to Watson, whom he succeeded as one of the Surgeons of the West- 

 minster Hospital in 1793. On the retirement of Sheldon, in 1808, 

 he became Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Academy, and re- 

 tained that office until 1824. He was also a member of the Council 

 and of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons, of 

 which College he was twice President. At the accession of George 

 the Fourth he was knighted as a mark of acknowledgment to his 

 professional skill. He died at his house, in Langham Place, on the 

 2nd of November last, and was buried in the Cemetery at Kensal 

 Green. 



Mr. Carlisle became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1792, 

 and of the Royal Society in 1804 ; and his most important contri- 

 butions to Natural Science are contained in the Transactions of 

 these Societies, His paper on the Structure and (Economy of 

 TcBnice, in the second volume of our Transactions, is probably the 

 first attempt to illustrate the structure of Entozoa by artificial injec- 

 tions, and established, among other points, the non-existence of an 

 anus in the Ttenite. At this early period, Mr. Carlisle anticipated 

 M. Virey's idea of the state of the nervous system in the lowest 

 animals, on which the chief character of Mr. MacLeay's Acrita is 

 founded, ascribing to the Tanice a diffused condition of the nervous 

 substance, and referring to John Hiuiter as having, in his lectures, 

 applied that character to many of the lower tribes of animals. 



Of his papers in the ' Philosophical Transactions,' the first in im- 

 portance and originality is the memoir ' On the peculiar arrange- 

 ment of the Arteries in Slow-moving Animals;' and it is on the 

 striking discovery detailed in it that his memory as a comparative 



