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Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836," vol. i., 

 containing "Proceedings of the T'irst Expedition, 1826-1830, 

 under the command of Captain P. Parker King, E.N., P.E.S.," was 

 published in 1839. In this expedition, as in his former one, Captain 

 King secured the assistance of an excellent botanical collector, 

 Mr. Anderson, and also superintended the formation of a zoolo- 

 gical collection of considerable extent, of the mammalia, birds, and 

 sheUs, composing which he gave, in an appendix to the ' Narrative,' 

 a catalogue, with descriptions of new species, being assisted in the 

 conchological part by the valuable advice of Mr. Broderip. The 

 insects have been described in three papers in the 17th, 18th, and 

 19th volumes of our Transactions, entitled " Descriptions, &c. of 

 the Insects collected by Captain P. P. King, P.E.S., in the Survey 

 of the Straits of Magellan," by Mr. Curtis, Mr. Halliday, and Mr. 

 Walker. On his retirement from active service. Captain King 

 returned to New HoUand and succeeded Sir Edward Parry in the 

 management of the affairs of the AustraHau Agricultural Society, 

 the duties of which office he discharged for several years with 

 exemplary ability and fidelity. He once again visited England 

 on the affairs of the society ; but soon returning to Australia, he 

 became first a nomiuated, and afterwards a representative Member 

 of the Legislative Council, and took an active part in the business 

 of the House. In the autumn of 1855 he was promoted to the 

 rank of Rear-admiral of the Blue, but the intelligence only reached 

 him a few weeks before his death, which took place in February 

 1856, at his residence, Grrantham, North Shore, Sydney, in the 63rd 

 year of his age. Both in public and private life, Admiral King 

 merited and obtained the cordial regard and high respect of all who 

 knew him ; and the strong interest which he invariably took in all 

 that related to natural history, and the encouragement which he 

 gave in his different voyages to the formation of collections of plants 

 and animals, are well calculated to endear his memory to the 

 members of a natural-history society. He was elected into both 

 the Hoyal and Linnean Societies in the year 1824, and was also a 

 Member of the Hoyal Asiatic Society, and a Corresponding Mem- 

 ber of the Zoological Society. He married Harriet, the daughter 

 of Christopher Lethbridge, Esq., of Launceston, in the county of 

 Cornwall, who, with a numerous family, survives him. Besides 

 the zoological notices already referred to. Admiral King was the 

 author of papers " On the Animals of the Straits of Magellan," 

 Zool. Journ. iii. 422, iv. 91 ; " On the Geology of the Straits of 

 Magellan," Proc. G-eol. Soc. i. 29 ; " On the Cirrhipeda, Conchi- 



