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' Memoires du Museum ' are contained his Essays on the Geogra- 

 phical distribution of Com/era, of Chenopodece, and of the Phanero- 

 gamous Plants of the Old World from the Equator to the North 

 Pole ; in the ' Nouvelles Annales,' his " Recherches Anatomiques 

 et Physiologiques sur le Marchantia polymorpha, pour servir a I'His- 

 toire du Tissu Cellulaire de I'Epiderme et des Stomates ; " in the 

 ' Archives du Museum,' his " Nouvelles Notes sur le Cambium, ex- 

 traites d'un travail sur I'Anatomie de la Racine du Dattier," which 

 work appeared in the 1 8th volume of the ' Memoires de I'Academie des 

 Sciences ; ' in the ' Annales des Sciences Naturelles,' among other 

 important papers, his " Nouvelles Recherches sur la Structure et les 

 Developpements de I'Ovule Vegetal; " his " Remarques sur la Nature 

 et rOrigine des Couches Corticales et du Liber des Arbres Dicoty- 

 ledones;" his "Notes pour servir a I'Histoire de I'Embryogenie 

 Vdgetale " (written in conjunction with M. Spach); his "Recherches 

 Anatomiques et Physiologiques sur quelques Vegetaux Monocotyles; " 

 and his " Extrait de deux Memoires sur la Composition et la Struc- 

 ture de plusieurs Organismes des Plantes " (in conjunction with 

 M. Payen). Several of these later papers formed part of a con- 

 troversy in which he was for some years engaged with M. Gaudi- 

 chaud, in defence of his peculiar views of Vegetable Physiology. 



Among our Associates we have also to record three losses during 

 the past year. 



Abel Ingpen, a zealous and active entomologist, and one of the 

 most constant attendants at our Evening Meetings during a period of 

 nearly thirty years, was born on the 20th of May 1796. At the age of 

 seventeen he became clerk to Mr. P. B. Brodie, a distinguished con- 

 veyancer, in whose office, and greatly respected by him, he passed the 

 entire remainder of his life (more than forty years), surviving that gen- 

 tleman only seven days. He was elected an Associate of the Linnean 

 Society in 1826, and published, in 1827, ' Instructions for Collecting, 

 Rearing and Preserving British Insects ; also for Collecting and 

 Preserving British Crustacea and Shells,' Lond. 12mo, of which a 

 second enlarged and corrected edition was published in 1839. This 

 little work is regarded as one of the most carefully executed and 

 practically useful works that have been written on the subject of 

 which it treats. He was also author of a paper in the 1st volume of 

 the • Transactions of the Entomological Society,' entitled " Remarks 

 on the Destruction of Cocci," and of numerous articles, chiefly 

 anonymous, in the ' Gardener's Magazine ' and the ' Horticultural 

 Magazine,' on subjects connected with Horticulture, to which in 



