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in the neighbourhood of Hastings, where our excellent Treasurer, 

 Mr. Yarrell, had frequent occasions of seeing him while collecting 

 materials for his work on ' British Fishes ' in the years 1834, 1835 

 and 1836, and where he was much esteemed as a man of gentle- 

 manly and amiable manners and extensive information. He died at 

 St. Leonard's on the 7th of September 1854. 



Sir Robert Heron, Bart., was born at Newark-upon-Trent on the 

 27th of November 1765, and succeeded to the baronetcy on the 

 death of his uncle, the Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Heron, formerly Chief 

 Secretary for Ireland, on whom the title had been conferred. He 

 was a warm politician of the Whig school, and first entered Parlia- 

 ment in 1812 as member for East Grimsby, for which place, and 

 afterwards for Peterborough, he continued to sit until the dissolution 

 in 1852, when he was reluctantly persuaded to retire from political 

 life at the age of 86. He married in 1792, but had no issue, and 

 the title has consequently become extinct. His death took place 

 suddenly on the 26th of May last year, in the 89th year of his age, 

 at his residence, Stubton, in the county of Lincoln ; and so quietly 

 did he pass away, while sitting in his library, that his death became 

 known only when he was asked if he wished to retire to bed. He 

 was fond of zoology, and had a large fund of anecdote cennected 

 with animals and their habits. His menagerie at Stubton contained 

 at one time many rare species, and he was particularly successful in 

 breeding them. His election into the Linnean Society took place in 

 1821 ; and he was from the date of its foundation an active Fellow 

 of the Zoological Society, to which he contributed not only specimens 

 for the menagerie, but also occasional notices for its ' Proceedings.' 



Duncan Mac Arthur, Esq., M.D., a naval surgeon of considerable 

 repute, became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1810, and died 

 at Walmer, in Kent, w^here he had long resided, on the 16th of 

 ■January in the present year, at the age of 82. He was a Companion 

 of the Bath, Physician to the Fleet, and for many years Physician 

 to the Royal Naval Hospital at Deal. 



William Rashleigh, Esq., F.R.S. S^c, the head of an ancient family, 

 long seated at Menabilly House, near Fowey, in the county of Corn- 

 wall, many of whose members have represented the county in Par- 

 liament from the reign of Elizabeth down to the present time, was 

 elected into the Linnean Society in 1813, and into the Royal Society 

 in 1814. He was a Vice-President of the Royal Cornwall Poly- 

 technic Society, and the possessor of a fine collection of minerals. 

 He died at Menabilly on the 14th of the present month, in the 79th 

 year of his age. 



