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of Fossil Organic Remains/ 1844, also translated into German; 

 ' Thoughts on Animalcules,' 1S46 & 1851 ; ' Geological Excursions 

 round the Isle of Wight and along the adjacent Coast of Dorset- 

 shire,' 1847 ; 'Thoughts on a Pebble, or a First Lesson in Geology,' 

 of which the eighth edition was printed in 1S49 ; and ' Petrifactions 

 and their Teachings, or a Handbook to the Gallery of Organic Re- 

 mains in the British Museum,' 1851, forming one of the volumes of 

 Bohn's ' Scientific Library.' The fluent style, the felicitous illustra 

 tions, and the unquestionable skill and knowledge of their author, 

 rendered many of these works highly popular ; and the same causes, 

 combined with a natural eloquence and an enthusiastic character, made 

 him no less successful as a lecturer, in which capacity he frequently 

 presented himself to the public. For manj- years before his death his 

 energy of mind was accompanied by an amount of bodily suffering, 

 under which nothing but very great fortitude could have supported 

 him. This was the consequence of an accident resulting in a severe 

 spinal affection, under the painful effects of which he lectured at the 

 Clapham Athenaeum only a few hours previous to his decease, which 

 was immediately occasioned by his having prescribed for himself a 

 larger dose of opium to relieve his sufferings than his debilitated 

 frame could bear, and took place at his residence in Chester Square 

 on the 10th of November last, at the age of 62. He became a 

 Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1813, and of the Royal Society 

 in 1825. 



Mr. Donald Miinro was a native of Scotland, and in early life 

 employed in the garden of Mr. George Don, at Forfar. At a sub- 

 sequent period he became Head Gardener to the Horticultural 

 Society, in which capacity he spent many years of his life. He 

 became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1821, and died on the 

 9th of April in the present year. 



Jonathan Pereira,M.D.,F.R.S., and one of the Physicians of the 

 London Hospital, was born in the parish of Shoreditch, on the 22nd 

 of May 1804, and articled at the age of fifteen to Mr. Latliam, an 

 apothecary in the City Road. In 1821 he became a pupil at the 

 General Dispensary in Aldersgate Street; and in the following year 

 he entered to the surgical practice of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 

 Having procured his licence from the Apothecaries' Company in 

 March 1823. when he was under nineteen years of age, he was in 

 the same month elected Apothecary to the Aldersgate Dispensary ; 

 and in 1825 he obtained his Diploma from the Royal College of 

 Surgeons. In the interval he had formed a class for private medical 

 instruction, and published several small works for students, such as 



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