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had formed a collection of fossils which he bequeathed to the Museum 

 of the Derby Society. To the Arboretum so nobly presented to the 

 town by the late Mr. Joseph Strutt (and the formation of which is 

 regarded as one of the most successful labours of another of our Fel- 

 lows, whom it will be my duty presently to notice more particularly). 

 Dr. Forester bequeathed the sum of 300/., besides several consider- 

 able legacies to charitable institutions. 



James Barlow Hoy, Esq., who for several years represented the 

 borough of Southampton in Parliament, was much attached to orni- 

 thology, and at the time of his melancholy death was on a tour in 

 the Pyrenees, with the object of collecting rare birds. His death, 

 which took place on the 13th of August last, at the Hospice de 

 Vieille, was occasioned by the bursting of his gun while engaged in 

 his favourite pursuit. 



John Claudius Loudon, Esq., v^as born at Cambuslang, in the county 

 of Lanark, on the 8th of April 1783. He was the eldest son of a 

 respectable farmer in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh ; and his 

 mother being left a widow with a large family, his exertions were 

 early called forth to assist in providing for their support. At the age 

 of twenty he came to England, and began to practise as a landscape 

 gardener, the profession for which he had been educated, and which 

 he afterwards cultivated with so much success. In 1806 he became 

 a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and in 1809 resided in Oxfordshire, 

 where he had taken an extensive farm. He subsequently made 

 several tours on the continent, visiting Sweden, Russia, Poland and 

 Austria in 1813, 1814 and 1815, Italy in 1819, and France and 

 Germany in 1828. During the latter years of his life he resided at 

 Bayswater, in the neighbourhood of London. 



Soon after his first arrival in England he was visited.by a severe 

 attack of inflammatory rheumatism, which disabled him for two years 

 and terminated in an anchylosed knee and a contracted left arm. 

 During a subsequent attack in 1820 his right arm was broken in the 

 operation of shampooing, and not having properly united was again 

 broken in 1825, when its amputation became necessary. At the 

 same time the thumb and two of the fingers of his left hand were 

 rendered useless. He afterwards suffered frequently from attacks of 

 illness, and died on the 14th of December 1843, of the effects of 

 severe and long-continued disease of the lungs. 



Such V7ere the adverse circumstances under which Mr. Loudon 

 commenced and pursued a career of literary labour of no ordinary 

 extent, of much variety of subject, and requiring intense severity of 

 application. His first essay was pubHshed in 1803, and for forty 



