373 Linnean Society. [May 24, 



Mr. Swainson he contributed to the first volume of the ' Transactions 

 of the Horticultural Society,' a paper entitled " An Account of some 

 new Apples which, with many others that have been cultivated, were 

 exhibited before the Horticultural Society on the 2nd of December 

 last [1806]." He died in the early part of the present year. 



John Dunston, Esq., of Castle House, Sidbury, near Honiton, 

 Devon, became a Fellow of the Society in 1818, and died on the 

 11th of August 1847, at the age of 68. 



John Ellis, Esq., became a Fellow of the Society in 1797, and of 

 the Royal So ciety inj.801. 



William Finch, Esq., M.D., of Bellevue, near Salisbury, became a 

 Fellow of the Society in 1837, and died on the 7th of January 1848. 



Geo7-ge Townshend Fox, Esq., was a gentleman of property in the 

 county of Durham, and warmly attached to the study of natural 

 history, and especially of British ornithology. He published in 

 1827 a " Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum, late the Allan, formerly 

 the Tunstall, or Wycliffe Museum : to which are prefixed Memoirs 

 of Mr. Tunstall, the Founder, and of Mr. Allan, the late Proprietor, 

 of the Collection, with occasional Remarks on the Species, by those 

 Gentlemen and the Editor," Newcastle, 8vo. This volume is chiefl.y 

 remarkable, in a natural-history point of view, for the notes on the 

 capture of the rarer species of British birds, and on the distinctions 

 of the more doubtful, which evince considerable research and know- 

 ledge of the subject. Mr. Fox was himself a large contributor to 

 the museum he described, and in which he continued to take great 

 interest up to the time of his death, in April of the present year. 

 He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1825. 



The Rev. John Hailstone, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. 8(C., was born in 

 the neighbourhood of London, in the year 1759, and at a very early 

 age was placed under the care of a maternal uncle at York, and after- 

 wards sent to Beverley School in the East Riding of that county. 

 At the usual period he was entered at Catherine Hall, in the 

 University of Cambridge ; his talents, however, attracted the notice 

 of his friends, and he removed by their advice to a larger place of 

 competition and honour. Trinity College, where he took his degree 

 of B.A. in 1782, and was the second Wrangler of his year, in 

 company with Dr. Wood the late Master of St. John (who was 

 Senior Wrangler), Dr. Raine (late Master of the Charter House), 

 Professor Person and many other distinguished men. He was soon 

 afterwards elected Fellow of his College, and in 1788 became Wood- 

 wardian Professor of Geology in the University, which office he 

 held until 1818, when he relinquished it and his Fellowship, upon 



