306 Linnean Society. [May 24, 



Society dates from 1818 ; and there is a short communication from 

 him noticed at p. 507 of the fifteenth volume of our Transactions. 

 He died at his residence in Bloomsbury Square on the 15th of April 

 in the present year. 



The Right Hon. John Cust, Earl Brownlow, D.C.L., F.R.S. 8(C., 

 was born on the 19th of August 1779 ; educated at Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1801 ; and created 

 D.C.L. at Oxford in 1834. He became, in 1802, one of the Mem- 

 bers for the borough of Clitheroe, which he continued to represent 

 until he succeeded his father in the Peerage as Baron Brownlow in 

 1807. In 1809 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of the County of 

 Lincoln, and in 1815 he was advanced to the dignity of an Earl. 

 His Lordship was thrice married, first to Sophia, daughter of Sir 

 Abraham Hume, Bart. ; through whose relationship to the Bridge- 

 water family, his eldest son, the late Lord Alford, came into posses- 

 sion of the great estates of the Earl of Bridgewater, which have 

 lately, by a decision of the House of Lords, been confirmed to his 

 grandson, the present Earl. Earl Brownlow was a liberal and in- 

 telligent patron of literature and science : he became a Fellow of 

 the Linnean Society in 1828, and of the Royal Society in 1838; 

 and presided with much cordiality at the Meeting of the Archaeolo- 

 gical Institute, held at Lincoln in 1848. He died at his seat, Belton 

 House, near Grantham, on the 15th of September last, in the 75th 

 year of his age. 



Frederick Thomas Henry Foster, Esq., was the son of Lady Elizabeth 

 Foster, daughter of the fourth Earl of Bristol and afterwards Duchess 

 of Devonshire, by her first husband, John Thomas Foster, Esq., of 

 Stonehouse, in the county of Louth. He was elected into the Lin- 

 nean Society in 1813, and was also a Fellow of the Horticultural 

 Society. His death took place at his house in Pall Mall on the 29th 

 of last June, at the age of 75 ; and his library, which was extensive, 

 and contained many curious and valuable works, has since been 

 dispersed by public auction. 



Robert Jameson, Esq., Professor of Natural History in the Univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh, was the third son of Thomas Jameson, and was 

 born at Leith on the 11th of July 1774. At the usual age he was 

 sent to the Grammar School, but evinced no particular love for 

 letters, while he gratified thus early his taste for natural history, by 

 collecting such animals and plants as could be found on the beach 

 at Leith and in the neighbourhood. He entered the Humanity- class 

 in 1788, but the love of adventure and the desire of studying nature 

 had induced in him so strong an inclination for the life of a mariner, 



