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ciety in 1814, and died at Dunkerron in the month of February of 

 the present year. 



The following are the titles of some of his papers which are not 

 more particularly mentioned in the preceding sketch : — 



" On a new British Jungermannia {J. microscopica) ," Hooker's 

 Journ. of Bot. iv. p. 97. 



" On six species of Jungermannice new to Britain," Hooker's 

 Lend. Journ. of Bot. iv. p. 276. 



"The distinctive characters of some new species of Musci, col- 

 lected by Professor William Jameson in the vicinity of Quito, and by 

 Mr. James Drummond at Swan River," ibid. v. p. 41. 



" New Hepaticce (chiefly from Sir W. J. Hooker's Herbarium)," 

 ibid. V. pp. 258 and 365. 



" New Lichens, principally from the Herbarium of Sir W. J. 

 Hooker," ibid. vi. p. 148. 



" Descriptions of new Musci and Hepaticce, collected by Professor 

 William Jameson on Pichincha, near Quito," ibid. vi. p. 328. 



And Sir W. J. Hooker announces the publication of several others 

 which will appear in the ' London Journal of Botany ' as posthumous 

 memoirs. 



Richard Weekes, Esq., was educated to the medical profession, 

 and was associated for some years with his father in an extensive 

 and successful country practice at his native place. Hurst Pierpoint, 

 in the county of Sussex, where he continued to reside till the time 

 of his death. Soon after his father's death he retired from practice. 

 He inherited from his father a taste for natural history, as well as 

 for antiquarian pursuits ; and became a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society in 1806. He died on the 24th of December last, in the 

 64th year of his age. 



Thomas Wheeler, Esq., was born in the city of London in the year 

 1754. He received his elementary education under Mr, Garrow, the 

 father of the late Sir William Garrow, and was subsequently a scholar 

 at St. Paul's School. In the course of his medical studies, he at- 

 tended the Anatomical Lectures of Mr. Hewson, and the Chemical 

 and Medical Lectures of Dr. George Fordyce. From this distin- 

 guished man he received many marks of kindness during his attend- 

 ance on the clinical practice of St. Thomas's Hospital : nor did these 

 cease except with the life of the teacher. 



At an early period Mr. Wheeler exhibited a great fondness for 

 the study of botany : this w^as much encouraged by his teacher 

 William Hudson, author of the ' Flora Anglica,' at that time the Pro- 

 fessor of Botany to the Society of Apothecaries in London. When 



