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on important facts, and the clearness with which he elucidated their 

 bearing upon the functions to which they appertained. His descrip- 

 tion of the mammary organs of the Kangaroo, and that of the struc- 

 ture of the pharynx in the Capybara, both contained in the 16th vol. 

 of our ' Transactions,' may be regarded as models of monographs 

 of single organs. 



The most striking characteristic of Mr. Morgan's mind was simple 

 truthfulness. There scarcely lived a man more utterly free from all 

 guile, or of more childlike simplicity. His whole heart was open as 

 the day to those whom he loved, and as close and dark as midnight 

 to those whom he held at a distance. This arose not from any 

 misanthropic feeling on his part, but rather was the natural result 

 of the intensity and concentration of his aifections. Of his bene- 

 volence the world knew but little in comparison with its actual ex- 

 tent. The same character distinguished his scientific pursuits. As he 

 would have scorned to assume to himself the credit due to another, 

 so he insisted on retaining the credit which belonged to himself, and 

 this too from the same truthfulness which marked all his conduct. 

 His conversation was delightful when alone with those " few familiar 

 friends " with whom he had no reserve, but an habitual reserve ari- 

 sing from natural and educational timidity prevented him from open,' 

 ing to the multitude, and hence he was not generally appreciated. 



To use the words of one who knew him well, " In public life ad- 

 mired and respected, in private beloved, Mr. Morgan sank beneath a 

 gradual and almost painless malady, the surely fatal termination of 

 which it was his melancholy advantage from the first to foresee." 

 He died on the 4th of October last, in the 51st year of his age. His 

 election as a Fellow of the Linnean Society dates from 1826. 



William Peete, Esq., one of our oldest Fellows, having been 

 elected into the Society in 1794, was born on the 27th of June 

 1771, obtained his diploma in surgery in 1799, and became resident 

 in or about the year 1795 at Dartford in Kent, where he entered 

 into partnership with Mr., afterwards Dr. John Latham, the distin- 

 guished ornithologist. When Dr. Latham quitted Dartford in 1796 

 Mr. Peete succeeded to his practice, and in the year 1833, after 

 having lived at Dartford for about eight-and-thirty years, he retired 

 to Keston and subsequently to Bromley, in the same county, wiiere 

 he died on the 4th of February in the present year, in the 77th year 

 of his age. Mr. Peete was well acquainted with British plants, to 

 the study of which he particularly attached himself, especially of the 

 rarer species of the neighbourhood in which he lived, and his opinion 

 on all questions regarding them was deservedly treated with great 

 respect. 



