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publication in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' of a memoir on the 

 Solar Eclipse said to have been predicted by Thales ; and from this 

 time appears to have formed the resolution, which on his retirement 

 from business in 1825 he fuUy carried out, to devote himself wholly 

 to mathematical, physical and astronomical pursuits. He was one of 

 the founders and the first Secretary of the Astronomical Society, of 

 which he was afterwards four times President ; and in everj'thing 

 connected with that Society and with its objects he took a leading, 

 an active, and a most efficient part. His labours in these depart- 

 ments were multifarious, and demanded both intense thought and 

 incessant application. They are too little connected with natural 

 history to admit of detailed consideration here ; but a summary of 

 them has been given by Sir John F. W. Herschel in an eloquent me- 

 moir of their author, published in the " Monthly Notices of the Royal 

 Astronomical Society," which contains an ample record of the life, 

 character and labours of this eminent man. 



Mr. Baily became a Fellow of our Society in 1817 : he was also 

 a Fellow of the Royal , Geological and Geographical Societies, an ^" 

 Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and a Correspondent 

 of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France and of various 

 other Foreign Academies. In 1835 the University of Dublin con- 

 ferred on him the honorary title of D.C.L., and the same honour 

 was awarded to him by that of Oxford in 1844. He died on the 30th 

 of August last in the 71st year of his age. 



Charles Cordeaiix, Esq., M.D. 



The Very Rev. Edmund Goodenough, P. P., F.R.S ., Dean of Wells, ^-' 

 was the son of the Right Rev. Samuel Goodenough, Bishop of Car- 

 lisle, an original Member of this Society, for many years one of its 

 Vice-Presidents, and well-known by his memoirs on British Carices 

 and British Fuci, published in early volumes of our ' Transactions.' 

 Dr. Goodenough the son was himself much attached to the study of 

 natural history : he was for many years head-master of Westminster 

 School. 



William Griffith, Esq., the youngest son of the late Thomas Grif- 

 fith, was born on the 4th of March 1810, at his father's residence at 

 Ham Common, near Kingston- upon-Thames, in the county of Surrey. 



He was educated for the medical profession, and completed his 

 studies at the London University, where he became a pupil of Prof. 

 Lindley, under whose able instructions, assisted by the zealous 

 friendship of Mr. R. H. Solly, and in conjunction with two fellow- 

 pupils of great scientific promise, Mr. Slack and Mr. Valentine, he 

 made rapid progress in the acquisition of botanical knowledge. The 



