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fislies in mountain streams and alpine lakes, for which it seems dif- 

 ficult to account ; but he suggests, that as the presence of unusual 

 plants in similar circumstances is only to be accounted for by the 

 seeds having been dropped by birds, the problem with regard to 

 fishes might be naturally solved in an analogous manner, their fry 

 having been conveyed to these distant localities by means of water- 

 birds. 



May 24. 



R. Brown, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



This day, the anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus, and that ap- 

 pointed by the Charter for the election of Council and Officers, the 

 President opened the business of the Meeting, and the Secretary 

 read the following notices of those Members with whose decease the 

 Society had become acquainted since the last Anniversary. 



James Allan, M.D., a Naval Surgeon of eminence, and one of the 

 Surgeons of Haslar Hospital, was a native of the county of Ayr. 

 After passing through the lower grades of professional rank, he was 

 promoted in 1845 to that of Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, and died 

 at Haslar in the spring ©I 1851. His election into the Linnean 

 Society dates from 1834. 

 'A./^/f- Henry Beaufoy, Esq., was the eldest son of Colonel Mark 

 Beaufoy, and at the head of an extensive commercial firm at South 

 Lambeth, near London. He was a most liberal and benevolent 

 man. His father dying^ in 1827, bequeathed to him his manuscripts, 

 the most important part of which, consisting of " Nautical and Hy- 

 draulic Experiments," he printed in 1834, at his own private press, 

 to the extent of 1500 copies, for gratuitous distribution, and at an 

 expense of upwards of 3000/. Shortly before his death, he founded 

 in his own neighbourhood, and endowed with a large sum of money, 

 an educational institution, which promises to become of much im- 

 portance, and he was also a liberal contributor to the City of London 

 School. He became a Fellow of this Society in 1811, and died 

 at his residence in South Lambeth on the 1 2th of July 1851, in the 

 66th year of his age. 



James Ebenezer Bicheno, Esq., who for several years filled the 

 office of Secretary of the Linnean Society, was a native of Newbury 



