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common \ridi Entomologv his leisure was entirely devoted. He 

 died of cholera at his residence at Chelsea, on the 14th of September 

 1 So 4, in the 59th year of his age. His collection of natural objects, his 

 books, and the plants of his garden, were all carefully and skilfully 

 collected, and arranged with a neatness and precision, which were 

 his most striking characteristics. 



The Rev. David Landsborough.D .D . , Minister of the Free Church at 

 Saltcoats, Ayrshire, first became known as a naturalist by occasional 

 sketches of the natural history of his former Parish of Stevenston, 

 and the shores of Ardrossan, the study of which occupied the brief 

 intervals of leisure left by his ministerial duties. These embraced 

 the plants both flowering and cryptogamic, and especially the Sea- 

 weeds : the shells, land and marine ; and the fossil botany of the 

 neighbouring coal-fields. His separate publications in natural history, 

 besides those of a more purely literary character, consist of ' Excur- 

 sions in Arran, Ailsa Craig, andthe two Cumbraes,' Edinb. 1S47, 

 16mo, and a second series, Edinb. lSo2, 12mo ; ' A Popular History 

 of British Sea- weeds,' Lond. 1849, 16mo; and 'A Popular History 

 of British Zoophytes,' Lond. 1852, Svo. His smaller contributions 

 were chiefly communicated to the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History,' and are as follows : " On the Phosphorescence of Zoo- 

 phytes," vol. viii. p. 257 ; " Description of a new Pliocene Deposit 

 at Stevenston, and of Post-Tertiary Deposits at Stevenston and Largs 

 in the County of Ayr," vol. viii. p. 514; "On Rissoa Harveyi," 

 vol. ix. p. 261 ; " On the History and Habits of the Rook," voL xi. 

 p. 275 ; "Account of a Dredging Excursion," vol. xv. p. 291 ; and 

 "Notice of some Rarities found on the West Coast of Scotland," 

 vol. XV. p. 327. In the ' Zoologist ' he also published notices " On 

 MoUusks, &c., observed at Whiting Bay, in the Isle of Arran, in 

 August 1S42 ; " and " On the Discovery of Bones near Saltcoats, 

 Ayrshire." He carried on an extensive interchange of specimens, 

 chiefly of Algts, with naturalists in aU parts of the United Kingdom, 

 and the children of the manse were trained to great neat-handed- 

 ne^ in their preservation. !Many hundred sets of elegant volumes 

 thus prepared at Stevenston, Rockvale and Saltcoats were sold, and 

 the proceeds contributed not a little to the support both of Church 

 and Schools. Dr. Landsborough was elected an Associate of the 

 Linnean Society in 1849, and died at Saltcoats, of cholera, on the 

 12th of September 1854. 



George Luxford was bom on the 7th of April 1807, at Sutton in 

 Surrey, from whence he was early removed to the neighbouring town 

 of Reigate. At the age of eleven, he was placed under the charge 



