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he rendered important services to the new governor. General Dundas, 

 by whom on his return to England he was strongly recommended to 

 his uncle. Lord Melville ; and when that nobleman became First 

 Lord of the Admiralty in 1804, Mr. Barrow was appointed to be 

 the Second Secretary of the Board, an office which he continued to 

 fill, with the exception of a few months in 1806, for a period of forty 

 years. In this capacity he was mainly instrumental n the pro- 

 motion of the various Polar Expeditions, in which he felt the deepest 

 interest ; and took an active share, under the direction of Sir James 

 Graham, in the carrying out of those important changes which have 

 so much improved and simplified the civil administration of the 

 Navy. His connexion with the ' Quarterly Review,' to which he 

 contributed no fewer than 195 articles, commenced with the fourth 

 number and was continued to the close of his life ; and many other 

 literary labours, which it is unnecessary to enumerate here, attest 

 both his extensive information and his laborious habits. He became 

 a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1805, and of the Linnean Society 

 in 1810. In 1835, during the short administration of Sir Robert 

 Peel, he was created a Baronet with the special approbation of the 

 King ; in 1 845 he retired from public life ; and he died on the 23rd 

 November 1848, suddenly, after walking out and transacting busi- 

 ness as usual, in the 85th year of his age. 



George Bennett, Esq., formerly a Surgeon at Staines in Middlesex, 

 was elected into the Society on the 20th of June 1826, and died on 

 the 30th of July 1848. 



Edwin Charles Charlton, Esq., was elected a Fellow of the Society 

 in 1845. 



Edward Forster, Esq., the late lamented Treasurer of the Society, 

 was the third son of Edward Fotster, Esq., for fifty-two years 

 Governor of the Russia Company of London, and was bom at 

 Walthamstow in the county of Essex on the 12th of October 1765. 

 He passed the greater part of his childhood in the neighbourhood 

 of Epping Forest, and from the age of fifteen became particularly 

 attached to the study of English botany, which he ardently culti- 

 vated through a long and active life. He was a partner in the 

 eminent banking-house of Lubbock, Forster and Company, and to 

 within a few hours of his death took a leading part in the business 

 of the bank. In 1800 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society, of which he became Treasurer in 1816, and one of the 

 Vice-Presidents in 1828; and his kindliness of disposition, unre- 

 mitting attention to his duties, and zeal for the interests of the 

 Society, will long endear his memory to all its members. He was a 



