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Monumenta,' and in various separate works, have greatly contri- 

 buted. 



The Society has also to regret the loss of two of its Associates. 



Mr. Daniel Cooper was the second son of Mr. John Thomas Cooper, 

 well known as a distinguished practical chemist. He was educated 

 for the medical profession, and assiduously devoted himself to the 

 study of natural history', and more especially of bot*iy and concho- 

 logy. He took an active part in the establishment of the Botanical 

 Society of London ; and subsequently became one of the Assistants 

 in the Zoological Department of the British Museum, and delivered 

 Botanical lectures at various Medical Schools. On quitting the British 

 Museum he entered the Medical Service of the Army, and was for 

 some time employed in the Museum at Fort Pitt, Chatham ; whence 

 he was appointed Assistant- Surgeon to the 17th Lancers, then sta- 

 tioned at Leeds. He died at the early age of 25, in the Cavalry Bar- 

 racks of that town, on the 23rd of November 1 842, about two months 

 after joining the regiment, of a sudden attack of inflammation of the 

 veins. 



Soon after the establishment of the Microscopical Society he com- 

 menced the publication of a ' Microscopic Journal,' of which he 

 edited nearly two annual volumes, the latter in conjunction with 

 Mr. Busk. He published also a ' Flora Metropohtana/ 12mo, 1836, 

 which constitutes a useful guide to the stations of the rarer plants 

 found witliin a walk of the metropoUs, and includes ' A List of the 

 Land and Freshwater Shells found in the environs of London.' To 

 this little work a Supplement was added in 1837 ; and he also super- 

 intended a new edition of Bingley's ' Useful Knowledge ' remodelled 

 and with considerable additions. 



Mr. Alexander Matthews, an active and inteUigent botanical col- 

 lector, died at Chachapoyas on the Andes of Peru, on the 24th of No- 

 vember 1841. He had been engaged for many years in forming and 

 transmitting to Europe collections of Peruvian and Chilian plants ; 

 and was the first discoverer of many species of great interest and 

 beauty, which have been described, from the specimens gathered by 

 him, chiefly in Sir W. J. Hooker's various publications, in which also 

 occasional letters from him on the subject of his botanical pursuits 

 will be found. 



The President also announced that two Foreign Members, eighteen 

 Fellows and six Associates had been elected since the last Anni- 

 versary. 



At the election which subsequently took place, the Lord Bishop of 



