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and greatly exerted himself, by lectures and otherwise, in promoting 

 the objects of the Mechanics' Institute and of the Literary and Phi- 

 losophical Society. In 1828 he published 'Academical Examina- 

 tions on the Practice of Surgery,' and in 1832 ' A critical Enquiry 

 concerning a new Membrane of the Eye.' He also contributed va- 

 rious papers to the medical journals. His election into the Lin- 

 nean Society dates from 1832 ; and he died in the beginning of 

 February of the present year. His funeral, which took place on the 

 1 0th of that month, proved the high respect in which he was held, 

 and the deep impression which his unwearied efforts for the im- 

 provement of his species had made on the minds of all classes of his 

 fellow-townsmen ; a vast concourse following him to the grave, and 

 the humbler classes having set on foot a collection among themselves 

 to raise a monument to record at once his merit and their gratitude 

 for his exertions in their behalf. 



William Horton Lloyd, Esq., well known to us all as one of the 

 most constant attendants on our Meetings, and for his liberal feel- 

 ings and kindliness of disposition, was bom at Chapel- Allerton in the 

 neighbourhood of Leeds in the year 1784. His family, although not 

 boasting any great descent, were very respectable manufacturers in 

 Manchester. He was himself destined for the bar, and studied the 

 law for a considerable time ; but conscientious scruples with regard 

 to the oath induced him to relinquish his idea of adopting the legal 

 profession, and he devoted himself to the cultivation of his taste for 

 natural science and antiquities, for which he had a stiong pre- 

 dilection. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1807, and 

 was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and one of the earliest 

 Members of the Zoological Society, of the Horticultural Societjs of 

 the British Association, and of several other scientific and literary 

 institutions. For the Linnean Society in particular he always en- 

 tertained the warmest regard ; and although he never published any- 

 thing, he constantly took a deep interest in the progress of science. 

 He died at his house in Park Square on the 1 8th of February in the 

 present year, having suffered for a year or two previously several 

 slight paralytic attacks, but retaining his faculties little impaired 

 almost to the last. 



Alexander MacLeny, Esq., for more than a quaiter of a century 

 Secretary to this Society, was born in the county of Ross on the 

 24th of June 1767. His father, who was Provost of the town of 

 Wick, was also a Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Caithness, 

 and the representative of one of the most ancient families in the 

 north of Scotland. Mr. MacLeay was educated for commercial 



