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drawings and manuscripts, will be given to the world in a manner 

 worthy of the author and oLthe rank in science which he filled. 



John Lewis Guillemar<C Esq., -wsls -well known to this Society as a 

 very amiable and worthy man, who took considerable interest in the 

 pursuits of science. In early life he resided in America, and was 

 chosen as their umpire by the British and American Commissioners 

 for the arrangement of the debts due by American citizens to British 

 subject^. He died at his house in Gower-street in December last at 

 a very advanced age. 



Robert Hills, Esq., was an artist of great and original talent, 

 especially in the delineation of deer and antelopes j and some of his 

 labours in this department of his art have ornamented our own 

 Transactions and those of the Zoological Society. 



Joseph Hurlock, Esq. 



Sir John Jamison, M.D. 



John Leonard Knapp, Esq., one of the oldest Fellows of the Society, 

 was bom at Shenley in Buckinghamshire, of which parish his father, 

 the Rev, Primatt Knapp, was rector, on the 9th of May 1767. He 

 was educated at the grammar-school of Thame in Oxfordshire, but 

 being destined for the navy, left school at an early age. The sea, 

 however, disagreeing with his health, he left the navy and after- 

 wards served both in the Hereford and Northampton Militia, in the 

 latter of which he commanded a troop. Previous to the death of his 

 father he resided principally at Powick near Worcester, from which 

 place he usually made botanical excursions during the summer 

 months, one of which extended into Scotland, where, in company 

 with the late Mr. George Don, he collected several of the rarer 

 grasses figured in his ' Gramina Britannica, or Representations of 

 the British Grasses, with Remarks and occasional Descriptions,' pub- 

 . lished in4to in 1804. This volume contains coloured figures of 119 

 species or remarkable varieties ; and offers many useful observations 

 on the agricultural and other properties of the grasses figured. It 

 was printed by Bensley, and the whole impression, with the ex- 

 ception of 100 copies in the hands of the binder, was destroyed by 

 the fire which consumed the establishment of that printer soon after 

 its completion. To this accident Mr. Knapp alludes in a poem, en- 

 titled " Progress of a Naturalist," printed at the end of the third 

 edition of his ' Journal of a Naturalist,' and in the preface to a new 

 edition of the ' Gramina Britannica,' which he issued in 1842, with 

 little alteration of the original text and no addition of species. 



In 1818 Mr. Knapp published anonymously a poem in 8vo, en- 

 titled " Arthur, or the Pastor of the Village," and between 1820 and 



