IS6 Linnean Society. [May 24, 



his MSS. were ten years afterwards, by the liberality of Mr. Hudson 

 Gurney, placed in the British Museum. Each of the coadjutors had 

 a duplicate copy of the other's work, and Mr. Davy continued to add 

 to his collections till his death, although he had for many years re- 

 linquished all idea of publication. He became a constant correspond- 

 ent of 'The Gentleman's Magazine' under the signature of D. A. Y., 

 and communicated to the ' Topographer and Genealogist,' a work 

 commenced in 1843, a series of notices of sepulchral monuments iu 

 the Parish Churches of Suffolk. He was a scholar and a gentle- 

 man, well acquainted with books and with general literature, and 

 took great pains and equal pleasure in imparting the knowledge 

 which he possessed. 



The Right Hon. the Earl of Derby, K.G., Lord Lieutenant of the 

 County of Lancaster, a Trustee of the British Museum, and for 

 many years President of this Society, and of the Zoological Society, 

 was born on the 21st of April 1775. He was educated first at Eton 

 and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received the 

 degree of M.A. in 1795. From 1796 to 1812, he represented the 

 borough of Preston in Parliament, and in the latter year he became 

 member for the county of Lancaster, which he continued to re- 

 present till 1832, when he was raised to the peerage by the title of 

 Baron Stanley of Bickerstafte. In 1 834, on the death of his father, 

 he succeeded to the Earldom of Derby. In both Houses of Parlia- 

 ment, during a period of more than half a century, he continued to 

 be a strenuous and consistent Whig. He devoted himself early in life 

 to the cultivation of zoology, and commenced the formation of a 

 collection of stuffed birds and quadrupeds, which gradually became 

 one of the most extensive private collections that has ever been 

 formed. At a later period his menagerie at Knowsley, on the in- 

 crease and maintenance of which he is supposed to have expended 

 not less than £10,000 a 5^ear, was altogether unrivalled, especially 

 as regarded ruminant animals and birds. He became a Fellow of 

 the Linnean Society in 1807, and in 1828 he was elected President 

 on the death of its first President Sir James Edward Smith, which 

 office he resigned in 1834. He had in the mean time been elected 

 President of the Zoological Society, and continued to fill that office 

 till his death, although increasing deafness and an attack of paralysis 

 had for many years incapacitated him for active exertion. Still his 

 interest in his collections and his zeal for their increase continued 

 unabated to the last ; and collectors in various parts of Asia, Africa 

 and America were constantly employed by him to add to the stores 

 which he possessed. He died at Knowsley on the 30th of June last. 



