1852.] Lianean Society. Ib5 



last five years of his life he attached himself ardently to the study 

 of practical astronomy. He died at Halstead, after a very slight 

 illness, on the 1st of January in the present year. His publications 

 of a scientific nature were chiefly chemical, but some were also of a 

 natural-history character. The principal of the latter are as fol- 

 lows : — " An Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the 

 Zoological Club of the Linnean Society, November 29, 1827 ;" '* A 

 short Abstract of Ochsenheimer and Treitschke's Characters of the 

 genera of the Lepidoptera of Europe," 8vo, 1829 ; " A Sketch of the 

 * Systema Glossatorum' of Fabricius," 8vo, 1830; "An Address 

 delivered at the Anniversary of the Entomological Society, January 

 26th, 1835 ;" Observations in the Zoological Journal " On the Che- 

 mical Composition of the Corneous Parts of Insects," appended to a 

 translation of M. Odier's memoir on the same subject (vol. i. p. 101) ; 

 and " On the Esquimaux Dog" (vol. iii. p. 54) ; " On specimens of 

 the Phyiotoma Bloxhami, Childr., collected by Mr. Cuming in Chili," 

 in the ' Proceedings ' of the Zoological Society, vol. ii. p. 3 ; " Cata- 

 logue of Arachnida and Insects," 8vo ; " On the Arachnida and In- 

 sects of Arctic America," in Capt. Back's Arctic Expedition, App. 

 p. 532 ; and " On Dr. Ehrenberg's Collections of dried Infusoria 

 and other Microscopic Objects," in the ' Philosophical Magazine,' 

 Ser. 3. vol. ix. p. 90. 



Joseph Cox Cox, Esq., M.D. 



David Elisha Davy, Esq., one of our oldest Fellows, having been 

 elected into the Society on the 17th of December, 1793, was the 

 son of a farmer at Rumburgh in SuflTolk, who died in 1799, at the 

 advanced age of 90. The younger brother of this gentleman, 

 Eleazar Davy, Esq., of Yoxford, was sheriff of Suffolk in 1790, and 

 from him the subject of this notice inherited, in 1802, the Grove at 

 Yoxford and other considerable estates. He was educated in the 

 neighbourhood of his uncle's residence, and became a Member of 

 Pembroke College, Oxford, where he took the degree of B.A. as 

 sixth senior Optime in the year 1790. After succeeding to his 

 uncle's property he resided at the Grove, became Receiver of the 

 County, and an active and useful magistrate. At a later period he 

 retired to UfFord, in the neighbourhood of Woodbridge in the 

 same county, where the latter years of his life were passed, and 

 where he died on the 15th of August last, unmarried, at the age of 

 82. For nearly half a century he had been actively engaged in 

 collecting materials for a History of the County of Suffolk, a project 

 carried on in the first instance in conjunction with his friend and 

 neighbour Mr. Henry Jermyn of Sibtun ; but the latter dying in 1820, 



