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Mr. Pilkington contributed to the 7th volume of the Society's 

 Transactions a " Description of some Fossil Shells found in Hants," 

 and has left behind him numerous MSS. on subjects of natural 

 history. Towards the latter part of his life he left his profession 

 and London altogether, and resided on his estate at Hatfield, passing 

 his time in doing good to his poorer neighbours, and in the enjoy- 

 ment of his favourite pursuits and studies. 



Robert James Nicholl Streeten, M.D., was born in London on the 

 28th of June 1800, matriculated at the University of Edinburgh in 

 1820, studied in Paris during the year 1823, and took his degree at 

 Edinburgh in 1824, his thesis " De Delirio tremente " being dated 

 on the 2nd of August in that year. Here, under the instructions of 

 the late Prof. Graham, whom he accompanied on one of his High- 

 land excursions, he acquired a taste for botany and other branches 

 of natural history, which he never ceased to cultivate. A few months 

 after taking his degree he settled in Worcester, and became one of 

 the Physicians of the Dispensary, which office he continued to fill up 

 to the time of his death . He took an active part in the formation 

 of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, and contributed 

 numerous papers to the ' Midland Medical and Surgical Reporter,' 

 and to its successor the ' Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal,' 

 published under the auspices of the Association, of which in 1843 he 

 became Secretary, and soon after took upon himself the duties of 

 responsible editor of the Journal. He was author also of some papers 

 in the ' Transactions ' of the Association, and in the ' British and 

 Foreign Medical Review.' On the establishment of the Worcester- 

 shire Natural History Society he became an active Member, contri- 

 buted greatly to the success of its Museum, and was the author of 

 " The Address of the Council," delivered at its first Anniversary 

 Meeting in 1834, and of a "Note on the second British species of 

 Monotropa (^Hypopitys hypophegea, G. Don)," published in the 1st 

 volume of the ' Phytologist.' He became a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society in 1846, and died at Worcester on the 10th of May in the 

 present year. 



John Frederick Walter, Esq., M.D., became a Fellow of this So- 

 ciety on the 1st of March 1836. He left England between three 

 and four years since for the Mauritius, where, on his arrival, he was 

 elected a Resident Member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sci- 

 ences of the island, and his death is announced in the Report of that 

 Society, read at the Annual Meeting held on the 24th of August 

 1847. 



