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came a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1826, and being greatly 

 attached to Natural History, was one of the most strenuous founders 

 of the United Service Museum at Whitehall, to the success of which 

 he contributed most efficaciously by his zealous services in the 

 capacity of its Director. 



Henry B. Fielding, Esq., was distinguished as the possessor of 

 one of the most extensive collections of dried plants in England, re- 

 markable also, it is stated, for the perfect order and arrangement in 

 which it was kept. Its foundation may be said to have been the 

 Prescottian Herbarium of which he became the purchaser, and which 

 was particularly rich in plants of the Russian dominions both in 

 Europe and Asia. He subscribed during the last twenty years to 

 almost every collection of plants made by travelling botanists ; and 

 purchased largely also at various sales, and in particular at that of 

 Mr. Lambert's herbarium, where he obtained a large portion of the 

 Peruvian collections of Ruiz and Pavon, besides other important 

 sets of plants. In 1844 he published, with the assistance of the 

 late Mr. Gardner, who had for some time charge of his herbarium, 

 a volume entitled ' Sertura Plantarum,' containing figures and de- 

 scriptions of seventy-five spepies of new or rare plants from his her- 

 barium, the drawings for which were executed in lithography by his 

 accomplished lady. The whole of his herbarium, together with such 

 books from his very fine botanical library as are wanting, have been 

 bequeathed by him to the University of Oxford, under certain con- 

 ditions ; and there is every reason to hope that the heads of that 

 University, seconded by the liberal exertions of Prof. Daubeny, will 

 enable his intentions to be properly carried out. He became a 

 Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1838, and died on the 21st of 

 November, 1851. 



Sir Charles Fergusson Forbes, M.D., K.C.H. &,- K.C., Fellow of 

 the Royal College of Physicians, joined the Medical Staff of the 

 Army in Portugal in 1798, and became Assistant Surgeon of the 

 Royals in the following year. With this regiment he served during 

 the campaign in Holland in 1799, at Ferrol in 1800, in Egypt in 

 1801, and subsequently at Malta and Gibraltar. In 1803 he pro- 

 ceeded to the West Indies, and was present at the capture of St. 

 Lucia and Tobago. In 1808 he returned to Portugal, and continued 

 to serve in the Peninsula until the termination of the war in 1814. 

 He was subsequently knighted, and rose to the rank of Deputy In- 

 spector General of Hospitals. His election into the Linnean Society 

 dates from 1822, and he died at his house in Argyll-street on the 

 22nd of March in the present year, at the age of 73. 



Sir George Smith Gibbes, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal 



