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communications of scientific travellers, and was thus enabled to lay 

 before the Asiatic Society, in illustration of a memoir read by him 

 in 1 852, a series of maps of Hindostan, defining all the important 

 elements of the ten water-basins of that Peninsula. And at the last 

 meeting of the British Association in Liverpool, he exhibited a 

 physical and geographical map of all India, on a large scale, which 

 has since been published under the title of ' General Sketch of the 

 Physical Features of British India/ Mr. Greenough became a 

 Fellow of the Royal Society in 1807, and of the Linnean Society in 

 1811. He was for two years (1840-41) President of the Geo- 

 graphical Society, and his extensive collection of maps is, by his 

 will, directed to be shared between that Society and the Geological, 

 each receiving those more especially connected with its object, and 

 in addition a bequest of ^6500 for their arrangement and preserva- 

 tion. Besides the publications mentioned above, his Presidential 

 addresses from the Chairs of these two Societies are the only printed 

 memorials of his scientific acquirements, which were accompanied 

 by extreme caution in the adoption of novel theories, and by a sin- 

 gularly methodical habit of minute arrangement. For some years 

 past his health had been much broken : he passed the last winter at 

 Naples, for the benefit of a milder climate; but dropsy having super- 

 vened on a debilitated state of body, he died in that city on the 2nd 

 of April in the present year, at the age of 77. 



John Harwood, Esq., M.D., F.R.S. S^c, was elected a Fellow of 

 the Linnean Society in 1820. In 1826 he became Professor of 

 Natural History in the Royal Institution, and in the spring of that 

 year delivered a course of lectures " On the Natural History of the 

 Animal Kingdom, comprehending a survey of the Classes Mammalia 

 and Birds, and of their most remarkable extinct Fossil Genera." In 

 the same year he read before the Institution an " Essay on the 

 Natural History of the Elephant genus ;" and in the following year 

 delivered a discourse " On the Structure and Habits of the Seal," 

 outlines of which are given in the 21st and 23rd volumes of the 

 'Journal of the Royal Institution.' In 1827 he communicated to 

 the Linnean Society " An account of a pair of hinder hands of an 

 Orang-Otang, deposited in the collection of the Trinity House, 

 Hull," which is published in the loth volume of our 'Transac- 

 tions ; ' and to the Royal Society a memoir " On a newly discovered 

 Genus of Serpentiform Fishes {Ophiognathus)," published in the 

 • Philosophical Transactions ' for that year, in the course of which 

 he also became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Soon after this 

 period he settled as a practising Physician at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, 



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