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Mr. Moore, from Dr. Horsfield's materials and manuscripts, and 

 under his immediate inspection, so tliat they may properly be in- 

 cluded in a list of his own works. 



Dr. Horsfield always took the deepest interest in the progress 

 of natural history, and especially in the systematic arrangement 

 of animals, in which he adopted the views of Mr. M'Leay. His 

 classifications of the Diiu-nal Lepidoptera and of Birds exhibit great 

 powers of philosophical analysis. 



His numerous scattered papers, if put together, would constitute 

 several large and valuable volumes, and many of them, more espe- 

 cially those on the Greology and Natural History of the Eastern 

 Archipelago, well deserve to be collected in a separate form. 



Amiable, beloved, and deeply lamented, this estimable man and 

 excellent naturalist died on the 24th Jvily, 1859, at the age of 86, 

 the survivor of an illustrious triumvirate, who about the same 

 time commenced in a very similar manner careers eminently use- 

 ful to mankind, and which have rendered tlieir own names as lasting 

 as science itself, and who have all passed away as it were together 

 at the same advanced age. The names of Humboldt, of Eobert 

 Brown, and of Thomas Horsfield, though, as regards the latter, not 

 coequal in renown, may perhaps, in such a ti'ibute as we are now 

 paying, not improperly be associated, and their deaths, within the 

 space of little more than a j^ear, be looked upon as the severance 

 of so many of the more important remaining links connectiag the 

 science of the last with that of the present century. 



Salter Livesay.M.D., was a Sui-geon in the Navy, and acted in that 

 capacity on board one of the vessels engaged in the Eajah Brooke's 

 attack upon the Borneo pirates. For the last year or two he 

 had been occupied in Mr. Cuming's vast conchological col- 

 lection. 



Elected a Eellow of the Linnean Society on the 1st of December, 

 1859, he enjoyed his privileges but a very short time, dying sud- 

 denly, whdst apparently recoveriag from an attack of gout, on the 

 8th April, 1860. 



D. W. Mitchell, Esq., B.A., Oxford, was elected Eellow, Nov. 21, 

 1843. He died in Paris, under very painful and melancholy cir- 

 cvimstances, in November 1859. Mr. Mitchell was well known as 

 a zoologist, and as Secretary for twelve years to the Zoological 

 Society, which owes much of its prosperity to his tact and zealous 

 exertions. 



Thomas Nuttall, an Englishman by birth, though by adoption, 

 as well as by his scientific labours and reputation, an American, 



