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ing it might be rendered more available in the manufactories of 

 Lancashire than in a London counting-house, removed him to their 

 establishment at Church Kirk, near Accrington, where he remained 

 nine years, having married, meantime, the eldest daughter of the 

 Rev. Thomas Starkie, vicar of Blackburn. In the year 1811 he 

 established himself at Primrose, near Clitheroe, where he pursued 

 the occupation of a calico-printer for nearly forty years. Notwith- 

 standing the claims and difficulties of an arduous business, he de- 

 voted much time to the cultivation of general science and literature, 

 and was besides a generous patron of the arts, and a liberal contri- 

 butor to public institutions. In addition to his knowledge of che- 

 mistry, which enabled him to introduce several important improve- 

 ments in the processes connected with his trade, he was attached 

 to antiquarian pursuits, and published in the ' London and Edin- 

 burgh Philosophical Magazine' for 1834 a paper " On the Mummy- 

 cloth of Egypt, with Observations on some Manufactures of the 

 Ancients," in which, with the assistance of Mr. Francis Bauer's 

 microscopical acumen and accurate pencil, he satisfactorily demon- 

 strated that the fibres of the cloth in question were of flax, and not 

 of cotton. He died at Clitheroe, of an attack of paralysis, on the 

 17th of September last, at the age of seventy-two. His election 

 into the Linnean Society dates from 1798. 



James Hewetson Wilson, Esq., B.A., was the only surviving son 

 of John Hewetson Wilson, Esq., of the Grange, Worth, in the 

 county of Sussex. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, 

 and became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1847. He attached 

 himself to the study of botany, and published in 1849 a very care- 

 fully executed translation of the 'Elements of Botany' of Adrien 

 de Jussieu. His death took place on the 12th of November last at 

 the house of his father, while still in the prime of youth. 



Robert W7-ay, Esq., one of the Benchers of the Inner Temple, 

 became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1799, and died at 

 Hampstead on the 10th of January in the present year, at the age 

 of seventy- three. He was fond of natural history, and attached 

 himself especially to entomology. 



The following losses have also been sustained among the Foreign 

 Members of the Society. 



Heinrich Friedrich Link was born on the 2nd of February, 1767, 

 in the Parsonage House of the Church of St. Anne at Hildesheim, 

 of which his father was minister, and was educated at the Gymnasium 

 Andreanum of his native town. He became early initiated in botanical 

 pursuits, having at ten years old made a journey into the Hartz, in 



