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this office became vacant by the resignation of William Curtis, author 

 of the ' Flora Londinensis,' Mr. Wheeler became his successor, and 

 continued to discharge its duties with great pleasure to himself and 

 advantage to his pupils for the long period of forty years. 



In the year 1800 he was elected to be the Apothecary of Christ's 

 Hospital, and six years afterwards he received the same appoint- 

 ment at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in which office he continued 

 fourteen years. In manners and habits Mr. Wheeler was distin- 

 guished by childlike simplicity, and he was remarkable for not having 

 partaken of fermented liquors for nearly eighty years. He died in 

 August 1847, having entered upon his 94th year. His Fellowship of 

 the Linnean Society dates from 1799. 



Sir John Eardley Wihnot, Bart., was the grandson of Sir Eardley 

 Wilmot, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the early part of the 

 reign of George the Third. He was educated at Harrow, and was 

 called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1801. He went the Midland 

 Circuit for several years, but soon ceased to practise as a Barrister, 

 and took up his residence at his seat in Warwickshire, in which 

 county he became Chainnan of the Quarter Sessions, and afterwards 

 one of the Members for its Northern Division. In 1821 he was 

 created a Baronet, and in 1 843 he was appointed Lieutenant-governor 

 of Van Diemen's Land, where he died on the 3rd of February 1847, 

 in the 64th year of his age. 



He was D.C.L., F.R.S., and F.S.A., and was twice married, first 

 to the sister of Capt. Sir Edward Pairy, R.N., and secondly to a 

 daughter of Sir Robert Chester, Knt., Master of the Ceremonies, by 

 both of whom he has left a numerous family. 



The Secretary also announced that seventeen Fellows, one Asso- 

 ciate and one Foreign Member had been elected since the last An- 

 niversary. 



At the election which subsequently took place, the Lord Bishop of 

 Norwich was re-elected President ; Edward Foi'ster, Esq., Treasurer ; 

 John Joseph Bennett, Esq., Secretary; and Richard Taylor, Esq., 

 Under-Secretary. The following five Fellows were elected into the 

 Council in the room of others going out : viz. Beriah Botfield, Esq., 

 F.R.S. ; William John Broderip, Esq., F.R.S. ; the Very Rev. Wil- 

 liam Buckland, D.D., Dean of Westminster; Arthur Henfrey, Esq. ; 

 and George Newport, Esq., F.R.S. 



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