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in his cabinet, on the evening of the 5th of October, 1858, in the 

 69th year of his age. 



Thomas Charles Harrison, Esq., wSiS the son of William Har- 

 rison, Esq., Q.C., a respected Fellow of our Society, of whom a 

 short obituary notice is contained in the Anniversary Proceedings 

 for 1842. The son, who became a Fellow of the Linnean Society 

 in 1821, was placed by bis father in the Treasury, of which he was 

 Counsel, and became Principal Clerk in that department of the 

 public service, after the murder of Mr. Drummond. He became 

 r.E-.S. in 1845, was a frequent attendant at our meetings, and, 

 besides an inclination for Natural History, had a considerable 

 taste for the fine arts, and had formed a valuable collection of 

 paintings He died on the 2nd of May, 1858, at the age of 65. 



Bohert George Holland, Esq., M.D., became a Licentiate of the 

 Society of Apothecaries in 1817, and a Fellow of the College of 

 Physicians in Edinburgh in 1838. In the same year he was 

 elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He practised for many 

 years as a Physician at Sheffield, and died on the 18th of No- 

 vember, 1857, at Hornsey Lane, near London. 



The Rev. John Howson, M.A., was born at Giggleswick, near 

 Settle in Yorkshire, in 1787, and was educated in the Grammar- 

 school of that place, of which he himself was afterwards Second 

 Master for the long period of forty-five years. This is the school 

 at which the celebrated Archdeacon Paley was educated ; and the 

 Archdeacon's father was Head Master when Mr. Howson' s studies 

 began there. Giggleswick is close to the great Craven fault in 

 the West E-iding. Mr. Howson was an ardent lover of nature 

 in all her aspects ; and many were the rambles which he used to 

 take with his pupUs over a district peculiarly rich in botanical 

 treasures. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1822, 

 and died at Giggleswick on the 23rd of January in the present 

 year, at the age of 72. 



Sir Henry John Lamhert, Bart., was born on the 5th of Au- 

 gust, 1792, and in 1803 succeeded his father in the baronetcy. 

 In 1820 he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and was also 

 a Fellow of the Horticultural. He died at his seat, Aston Hall, 

 Tetsworth, in the county of Oxford, on the 17th of December 

 last, in the 67th year of his age. 



Edward Moore, Esq., M.D., was the youngest son of Joseph 

 Moore, Esq., of Plymouth, and was born in that town in the year 

 1794. He was principally educated at the Grammar-school at 

 Plympton, and commenced his medical studies at Honiton. In 



