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his attempting poetry in a series of new ' Persian Tales.' These, 

 however, met with Httle success, and he devoted himself during the 

 latter years of his life to the more congenial study of mediaeval 

 architecture. He was returned to parliament in 1834 for North 

 Nottinghamshire, for which he continued to sit till the time of his 

 death, which occurred on the 9th of February in the present year, 

 and in the 59th year of his age. He became a FeUow of the Lin- 

 nean Society in 1818. 



Richard Latham, Esq., received the rudiments of his education at 

 Christ's Hospital, and in grateful recollection of the benefit, devoted 

 the first four hundred pounds which he saved by industry and fru- 

 gality to the uses of that noble institution. He became connected 

 with the extensive brewery of Sir Henry Meux and Co., of which 

 for more than a quarter of a century he was acting partner. In this 

 position he acquired considerable wealth ; while he amused his leisure 

 hours with the pursuits of chemistry, geology, botany and ornitho- 

 logy. He also contributed largely to the funds of many of the most 

 important charitable institutions of the metropolis. He became a 

 Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1821, and died at his residence at 

 Bayswater on the 24th of January in the present year, and in the 

 79th year of his age. 



Thomas Knowlton, Esq., the son of a father of the same names, 

 who was in the early part of his life gardener to Sherard, and after- 

 wards to the Earl of Burlington, and M'ho is mentioned with honour 

 in Pulteney's ' Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England ' as an 

 antiquary as well as a naturalist. Our deceased member inherited 

 his father's taste for natural history, and formed a valuable botanical 

 and zoological library, which was disposed of by auction on the death 

 of its proprietor in the spring of the present year. The elder Knowlton 

 died in 1784 at the advanced age of 90, and his son, who became a 

 Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1795, must also have reached a 

 good old age. 



Charles Lush, Esq., M.D., was educated as a surgeon, and the first 

 bent of his mind towards natural history was given in a small society 

 of juniors to which several of our Fellows who have since distin- 

 guished themselves also belonged. He became the Botanical Lec- 

 turer at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1825, and in 1827 sailed for India 

 as an Assistant- Surgeon in the East India Company's service on the 

 Bombay establishment. Soon after his arrival he was appointed to 

 take charge of the Botanic Garden at Dapooree near Poona, which 

 appointment he retained until his return to England in 1837. In 

 1829 he was employed by the Bombay Government in traveUing in 



