LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDOK. XXXV 



Camoens, together with other rare and curious selections from his 

 library, have been sold by auction in London within the last two 

 days. 



During the earlier part of his life, Mr. Adamson was an enthu- 

 siastic collector of coins. He was one of the founders of the local 

 Antiquarian Society, and, as its Treasurer and Secretary, contributed 

 greatly to promote its objects. He also became a Fellow of the 

 Society of Antiquaries, and contributed papers to the ' Archseologia,' 

 as well as to the ' Archseologia -S^liana,' of which the most important 

 related to the discovery, at Hexham in 1832, of a number of the 

 Anglo-Saxon coins called Stycas. In Natural History he chiefly 

 attached himself to Conchology, and formed a valuable cabinet of 

 shells amounting to upwards of 3000 species ; but despairing of 

 being able to keep pace with the great influx of new species of 

 modern introduction, he determined a few years since to part with 

 this collection. He had previously, in 1823, issued from the New- 

 castle press for private distribution, a little work entitled ' Concho- 

 logical Tables,' the principal object of which was to show at a 

 glance, on the authority of the best writers, the number of species 

 in each genus which a collector might hope to procure. He was 

 a Member of the Natural History Society of Newcastle, and, 

 besides other donations to various institutions, he gave a collec- 

 tion of fossils to the Museum at Newcastle, and a collection of 

 minerals to the University of Durham. He became a Fellow of 

 the Linnean Society in 1823, and was elected Corresponding 

 Member of numerous Antiquarian and Literary Societies on the 

 continent of Europe, and Honorary Member of the Antiquarian 

 Societies of Edinburgh, Perth and Cambridge, and of the Literary 

 and Philosophical Society of Halifax. In the month of July last 

 he lost his wife, by whom he had seven children, five of whom 

 survive him. His friends had long noticed his failing health, but 

 he continued attentive to his business until a few days before his 

 death, which took place on the 27th of last September, when he 

 had just completed his 68th year. 



John Allcard, Esq., of Burton-Closes, near Bakewell, in the 

 county of Derby, a member of the well-known firm of Overend, 

 Gurney and Co., became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1844, 

 and died at his house in Connaught Place West, Hyde Park, 

 London, on the 9th of Api^l of the present year, in the 78th year of 

 his age. He was a very zealous and successful cultivator of ferns, 

 and especially of tree-ferns, of which his collection at Stratford, 

 near London, might some years ago be considered as unrivalled, 



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