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to hands far abler than my own ; and to those hands I cheerfully 

 resign it. I will therefore only add that Alexander von Humboldt 

 was born at Berlin on the 14th of September, 1769, was elected 

 one of the eight Foreign Associates of the Academy of Sciences 

 of the Institute of Prance, in the place of Cavendish, in 1810, 

 became a Foreign Member of the Eoyal Society in 1815, and a 

 Foreign Member of the Linnean Society in 1818, and died at 

 Berlin on the 6th of May in the present year, in the 90th year of 

 his age. 



Lastly, we have to record the deaths of two of our Asso- 

 ciates : — 



Mr. Samuel Stutchhury was the son of a dealer in mathematical 

 instruments in the City of London, and early attached himself to 

 Natural History pursuits. Li 1825 he was engaged, in the capa- 

 city of Natural History collector, to accompany an expedition 

 fitted out for the purpose of fishing for Pearls in the Pacific 

 Ocean, and soon after his retiirn became Curator of the Bristol 

 Philosophical Institution, which office he retained for many years. 

 In 1842 or 1843 he went out to New Holland with a geological 

 appointment, and returned about two years ago, bringing with 

 him considerable collections in various departments of Natural 

 History. He was elected an Associate of the Linnean Society in 

 1828, and contributed two Papers to our 'Transactions;' one 

 entitled " An Account of the Mode of Growth of Young Corals 

 of the genus Fungia,'' vol. xvi. p. 493 ; and the other, a " Descrip- 

 tion of a new species of the genus Chamceleon,^'' vol. xvii. p. 361. 

 Besides these, he was author of the six following Papers : — 1. " On 

 two new genera of Testaceous Mollusca," Zool. Jonrn. v, p. 95 ; 



2. " On CyprcBcassis" Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. i. pp. 214, 470 ; 



3. " On a new fossil Avicula,'" Ibid. ii. p. 163 ; 4. " On a new 

 genus of Fossil Bivalve Shells {Pachyodon)" Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. viii. p. 481 ; 5. " On a new Sponge from Barbadoes {Dacty- 

 localyx pumieeus), Proe. Zool. Sac. ix. p. 86 ; 6. " On a new species 

 of Plesiosaurus in the Museum of the Bristol Institution," Journal 

 of the Geological Society, ii. p. 411. Of the last-named Society he 

 was a Fellow. He returned from Australia in dilapidated health, 

 and died at Bristol on the 12th of February in the present year, 

 at the age of 61. 



Of Mr. Thomas Turner, of Eton College, I only know that lie 

 was elected in 1832, and died in the autumn of 1858. 



