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College of Physicians, and a Magistrate for the County of Somerset, 

 was son of the Rev. George Gibbes, D.D., Rector of Woodborough, 

 Wilts. He was entered of Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated 

 as B.A. in 1792, became Fellow of Magdalen College, and proceeded 

 M.A. in 1795. In 1796 he took his degree of M.B., and in 1799 

 that of M.D., and for many years afterwards he practised in Bath, 

 where he became Physician to the City Dispensary. He was ap- 

 pointed Physician Extraordinary to Queen Charlotte, and knighted 

 by King George the Fourth in 1820. His election into the Linnean 

 Society bears date on the 21st of May, 1793, and he consequently 

 ranked second in seniority upon our list. In 1796 he also became 

 a Fellow of the Royal Society, to which he had previously com- 

 municated two papers " On the Conversion of Animal Muscle into a 

 substance much resembling Spermaceti," published in the ' Philoso- 

 phical Transactions ' for 1794 and 1795. His attention was at this 

 time directed to mineralogy and geology : he published in the fifth 

 volume of onr ' Transactions ' a short "Account of a Cavern dis- 

 covered in the north-west side of the Mendip Hills in Somerset- 

 shire," in which was found a large collection of human bones loaded 

 with a calcareous incrustation ; and in ' Nicholson's Journal,' vol. ii. 

 a notice of the " Discovery of Sulphate of Strontian, near Sodbury 

 in Gloucestershire." His other publications consist of: "A Sylla- 

 bus of a Course of Chemical Lectures," 8vo, Bath, 1799 ; " A Trea- 

 tise on the Bath Waters," 8vo, Bath, 1800; "A Second Treatise 

 on the Bath Waters," 8vo, Bath, 1803 ; and of miscellaneous papers 

 in Tilloch's, and in various Medical Journals. Having relinquished 

 his practice at Bath, he resided for many years past at Cheltenham. 

 He was twice married, and died at Sidmouth on the 23rd of last 

 June, at the age of 80. 



Samuel Hailstone, Esq., was a younger brother of tlie late Rev. 

 John Hailstone, formerly Woodwardian Professor of Geology in the 

 University of Cambridge, of whom a biographical notice is given at 

 p. 372 of the first volume of our ' Proceedings.' He became a Fellow 

 of the Linnean Society in 1801, and died on the 26th of December 

 last, at the age of 83. He published in the ' Magazine of Natural 

 History,' vol. viii. p. 549, a paper " On a species of Eurynome 

 supposed undescribed." 



JohnKidd,M.D.,F.R.S.8fG.S.,Hon.M.C.P.S., Fellow of the College 

 of Physicians, &c., was born in the parish of St. James, Westminster, 

 and educated at St. Peter's College in that city, from whence at the 

 age of 17 he was elected student of Christ Church, Oxford, in May 

 1793. In 1797 he took his degree of B.A. ; in 1800 that of M.A. ; 



