1841.] Linnean Society. 107 



Mr. Vigors became a Fellow of this Society in 1819, and is author 

 of an important paper in the 14th volume of our Transactions, ' On 

 the Natural Affinities that connect the Orders and Families of Birds.' 

 In this elaborate memoir he appUed to the whole Class of Birds the 

 principles of the quinary arrangement propounded by Mr. W. S. 

 MacLeay in the ' Horse Entomologicse,' of which he continued 

 through life to be one of the most ardent supporters. In the suc- 

 ceeding volume he published, in conjunction with Dr. Horsfield, the 

 first part of ' A Description of the Australian Birds in the collection 

 of the Linnean Society, with an attempt at arranging them accord- 

 ing to their Natural Affinities,' in which the same principles were 

 further developed and applied to the illustration of the Raptorial and 

 Insessorial Orders. His only other contribution to our Transac- 

 tions consists of a ' Description of a new Species of Scolopax lately 

 discovered in the Britifsh Islands ; with Observations on the Anas 

 glocitans of Pallas, and a description of the Female of that Species,' 

 contained in the 14th volume. 



The first of his papers in the ' Zoological Journal' appeared in 

 1824 ; in 1827 he became its principal editor, and so continued until 

 its termination in 1834. Of his numerous ornithological memoirs 

 published in that work, perhaps the most important is his ' Arrange- 

 ment of the Genera of Birds ;' which, although scarcely more than 

 a bare enumeration of names, contains the most complete outline of 

 his views on the subject of classification. Some of his notices in 

 the ' Zoological Journal' are on Entomological subjects ; and several 

 valuable papers, written in conjunction with Dr. Horsfield, are de- 

 scriptive of new or rare Mammalia in the collection of the Zoological 

 Society. For several years before his death the active part which 

 he took in politics precluded his paying much attention to Zoology, 

 but he retained to the last a considerable interest in his former pur- 

 suits, especially in connexion with the Zoological Society, He con- 

 tributed many valuable notices to the ' Proceedings' of that Society. 



Major- General Viney. 



Robert Montague Wilmot, M.B. 



Rev. William Wood, B.D., and 



Francis Boucher Wi-ight, Esq. 



Among the Associates 



Henry Woods, Esq., a surgeon, formerly resident at Bath, and 

 subsequently at Camden Town, near London, who was well versed 

 in the study of the Mammaha, a ' Natural History' of which he was 

 for many years engaged in preparing for the press. This work, 



