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portion of it wliich relates to our assets aud liabilities ; and as a last 

 proof of his good- will and of the warm interest which he ever took 

 in our affairs, I have to record that he has bequeathed to us by 

 his will a legacy of a hundred pounds, of which his executors have 

 courteously announced the speedy payment. To many of us he 

 has been so long known by his constant attendance at our meet- 

 ings, both scientific and social, by his liberal hospitality, by the 

 kindliness of his disposition, and by that spirit of universal good- 

 will which he both felt and inspired, that his loss will leave a 

 marked vacancy in the ever-narrowing circle of our older friends. 

 He died at his house in Grreat Ormond Street on the 31st of 

 March in the present year, having nearly completed the 80th 

 year of his age, and was buried on the 7th of April in the New 

 Cemetery at "Woking, Surrey. 



The Bev. William Stockdale, M.A., second in seniority on the 

 list of our Members, having been elected a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society in the year 1796, died on the 27th of February in the 

 present year, at Mear's Ashby Hall, near Northampton, in the 

 91st year of his age. He had been for forty-four years vicar of 

 East Ashby, and for nearly sixty-two years a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society. For many years past I have received from him, 

 at each recurrence of this Anniversary, a letter expressing his 

 warm sympathy with the Society, and occasionally enclosing a 

 botanical specimen with a query attached to it, evincing his con- 

 tinued interest in its pursuits. 



William Wood, Esq., F.B.S., was born in Kendal in the year 

 1774, and was educated for the medical profession. Having com- 

 pleted his studies at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in London, under 

 the tuition of Abemethy, he commenced practice as a surgeon at 

 "Wingham, in the neighbourhood of Canterbury. Attaching him- 

 self early to the study of Natural History, he became in 1798 a 

 Fellow of the Linnean Society ; and published, in 1801, in the 

 sixth volume of our ' Transactions,' a useful Paper entitled " Ob- 

 servations on the Hinges of British Bivalve Shells," carefully 

 illustrated by figures from the pencil of Mr. Henry Boys, also an 

 early Fellow of the Society, and still, I believe, living at Toronto 

 in Canada "West, of the University of which city he has long 

 been one of the Professors. About 1801 Mr. "Wood removed to 

 London, whei'e he continued to pi'actise his profession until 1815, 

 when he entered into business as a bookseller in the Strand, 

 dealing chiefly in books of Natural History, and publishing some 

 impoi'tant works in that department of Science. He had pre- 



