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unquestionably have impelled him to devote a considerable portion 

 of his time to the pursuit of Natural History, and this Society in 

 particular would have benefited largely by the increased attention 

 which he would have been enabled to dedicate to the advancement 

 of its interests. Our warm and grateful acknowledgements are so 

 much the more especially his due, that he contrived, amid the many 

 and weighty calls of his high office, to appropriate so much of his 

 time and energies to the promotion of the objects of the Linnean 

 Society, in whose affections his memory will long survive. Many 

 other societies have lost in him a valuable member. He became a 

 fellow of the Royal Society in 1840 ; and was from the first an 

 active supporter of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, and of the Archaeological Institute, the members of which 

 will not fail to remember the kind and hospitable reception which 

 they met with at his hands during their meetings in the chief city of 

 his diocese. He took much pleasure and interest in such peripatetic 

 meetings ; and it had been his practice for many years to devote 

 about six weeks of every summer to a tour in pursuit of healthful 

 relaxation, not unfrequently in connexion with some scientific object. 

 His death took place on one of these excursions on the 6th of Sep- 

 tember last, after a few days' illness, terminating in congestion of 

 the brain, at Brahan Castle near Dingwedl, in the north of Scotland. 

 His remains were placed on board a steamer at Invergordon, and 

 conveyed by sea to Yarmouth, whence they were removed to Nor- 

 wich and interred in the centre of the nave of the Cathedral on the 

 21st of the same month, amid the general mourning of the city and 

 of the diocese. 



Louis Hayes Petit, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., Vice-Pres. 

 R.S.L., F.R.A.S. 8iC., was descended from an ancient family in Nor- 

 mandy, his great grandfather having come to England on the revoca- 

 tion of the Edict of Nantes. His father practised as a physician in 

 Marlborough Street, where he was bom on the 9th of November 1774. 

 He was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, where he took his 

 degree of B.A. in 1796, and MA. in 1799, and was called to the 

 Bar in 1 801. For some years he was a distinguished member of the 

 Oxford Circuit, but quitted the practice of his profession in 1821, 

 and sat in Parliament for the borough of Ripon from 1827 to 1832. 

 From 1 802 to the time of his decease he resided uninterruptedly at 

 No. 9 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, where he occupied himself with 

 literary pursuits, and collected a library unusually rich in philology, 

 and of great value in other departments. His kindness of disposition, 

 his cheerfulness and hospitality, and that benevolence of heart which 



