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Charleston, in preparing for the press ' The Quadrupeds of America,' 

 in the same magnificent form. In this work he also received the 

 assistance of his two sons, Victor Gifford and John Woodhouse, who 

 inherit in a high degree their father's talents as an artist. His death 

 took place, at the age of 76, on the 27th of January in the present 

 year, at his residence on the banks of the Hudson River, in 155th- 

 street. New York. He became a Fellow of this Society in 1828, 

 and was also a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edin- 

 burgh, and of many other scientific bodies. 



John Brown, Esq., M.D., who had for many years practised as a 

 physician at Boston in Lincolnshire, was one of the magistrates of 

 that borough, and highly respected by his fellow-townsmen. He 

 was fond of botany, and his garden evinced a considerable taste for 

 horticulture. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1826, 

 and died at Boston on the 30th of January 1851 . 



Charles Ducane, Esq., Capt. R.N., of Braxted Lodge in the county 

 of Essex, entered the Navy in 1803, commanded a gun -boat in the 

 Walcheren Expedition, was made acting Lieutenant of the Parthian 

 brig in 1809, Commander in 1815, and in 1824-25 ofiiciated as In- 

 specting Commander of the Coast Guard. Capt. Ducane was much 

 attached to zoological studies ; and published several interesting 

 memoirs " On the Metamorphoses of the Crustacea." He became a 

 Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1846, and died at Bath on the 17th 

 of last November. 



The Rev. Robert Branshy Francis, M.A., one of our oldest Mem- 

 bers, having been elected into the Society in 1798, was educated at 

 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, at which University he took the 

 degree of B.A. in 1790, and of M.A. in 1794. He became Rector 

 of East Carleton in the count}^ of Norfolk, on the presentation of 

 the Corporation of Norwich, in 1812 ; and continued to reside there 

 till his death, which took place on the 27th of April 1850, at the 

 age of 82. He was much attached to botany, and well acquainted 

 with our native plants. 



Edward Home, Esq., B.C.L., was in early life much attached to 

 botany, and during the time that he continued an inmate with his 

 father at Clapham and at Bookham Grove, was a frequent companion 

 to Mr. Woods in his botanical excursions. After his father's death, he 

 resided for a short time with his mother in Russell- square, and then 

 took up his residence at Florence, where for the last twenty or thirty 

 years of his life he was a martyr to rheumatism. He became a Fel- 

 low of the Linnean Society in 1812, and died at Florence on the 

 18th of March in the present year. 



