338 Linnean Society. [May 24, 



paid him the merited compliment of dedicating to him a genus of 

 plants under the name of Rudgea, described and figured from speci- 

 mens of two species in Martin's Guiana collection, which (as far as 

 I am aware) have not yet been met with by any other collector. 



In 1805 he became a FellowjoTt he Roya l^^ciety ; and he subse- 

 quently connected himself with most of the leading Societies of the 

 metropolis, taking an active interest in their pursuits and being fre- 

 quently placed upon their Councils. At an early period he became 

 a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and as an antiquary he has 

 considerable merit. At intervals between 1811 and 1834 he care- 

 fully excavated those portions of the ancient Abbey of Evesham 

 which were under his control, and the results were communicated 

 to the Society of Antiquaries, who not only inserted his memoirs in 

 the * Arch^ologia,' but also made the ruins and relics brought to 

 light by these excavations the subject of a series of large plates in 

 their ' Vetusta Monumenta.' An octagonal tower of stone erected 

 by him in 1842 on the battle-field of Evesham, commemorative of 

 Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, further marks the bent of his 

 mind towards antiquarian studies. 



Mr. Rudge died at the Abbey Manor House, Evesham, on the 

 3rd of September last, at the age of 83. In his will he gave a proof 

 of his attachment to the Linnean Society, of which he had so long 

 been a member, by bequeathing to it the interest of a sum of 200/. 

 for the purpose of establishing a medal, the particulars of which, and 

 the reasons which actuated the Society in relinquishing the bequest, 

 are given in detail at p. 315. 



Lord Saye and Sele was from his earliest days fond of ornithology, 

 and had studied and understood the birds of the British Islands, of 

 which he formed a very fine collection, at present arranged at his 

 family residence of Belvidere, and in an excellent state of preserva- 

 tion. Excepting a small aviary of exotic birds at his residence in 

 Grosvenor Street, his lordship confined his collection to our native 

 birds, but he was a very liberal supporter of publications on all 

 branches of Natural History. He also took considerable interest in 

 and contributed rather largely to the Ornithological Society in St. 

 James's Park, where at one time he was a constant and almost daily 

 visitor. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1822, 

 and died in the spring of the present year. 



Richard Simmons, Esq., M.D., was the only son of Dr. Samuel 

 Foart Simmons, a medical practitioner of great skill, especially in 

 the treatment of lunacy, and took his degree at Oxford in 1809. He 

 was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and enjoyed a pen- 



