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entomology, geology and numismatics successively occupied his 

 attention. He became a member of the Entomological Society in 

 1835, and contributed some valuable papers in the second and third 

 volumes of its ' Transactions.' He was elected a Pellow of the 

 Linnean Society in 1839. 



Mr. Ashton was possessed, according to his biographer in the 

 ' Law Times,' whence I have taken this short account of his life, of 

 no ordinary mental powers, great originality of thought, and was 

 familiarly versed in biblical lore. Of strong religious feeling, he 

 took a lively interest in most of the popular religious societies of 

 the day ; at the same time he was a man of strict integrity, chari- 

 table, upright and uncompromising almost to a fault. 



He died at Eichmond, on the 26th of August, 1860, at the early 

 age of 47, and was buried at Kingsbury, Middlesex. 



Philip Edward Barnes, Esq., B.A., occupied the post of Danish 

 Consul at Coquimbo. He Avas the son of Mr. Philip Barnes, an 

 old Fellow of the Society, and one of the originators of the Hoyal 

 Botanic Society, in whose service his son was at one time en- 

 gaged as Assistant Secretary. 



Mr. Barnes was elected into the Society on the 18th of Decem- 

 ber, 1838, and died at Copiapo, Chili, on the 2nd of October, 1860. 



Bracy Clark, Esq., the "Father of the Linnean Society, " died 

 on the 16th of December, 1860, at the advanced age of 90, having 

 retained his faculties in almost full vigour to the last. In his own 

 profession he was esteemed one of the most eminent, if not the most 

 eminent, ©f veterinarians. At any rate, he was one of the first in 

 this country to apply the resources of a liberally educated and well- 

 informed mind to the study of the veterinary art, which, since the 

 establishment of the college, has deservedly been admitted into the 

 rank of a profession. He was born at Chipping Norton, in Oxford- 

 shire, on the 7th of April, 1771, the ninth and last child of his 

 parents, who belonged to the Society of Friends, and both of whom 

 died within a few weeks of each other, before their youngest-born 

 was two years old. He was left under the guardianship of a near 

 relative, Mr. John Zachary, and at 8 years of age was placed at 

 school at Barford, where he had a favourable opportimity of ac- 

 quiring classical knowledge, and had among others for contempo- 

 raries, Luke Howard and Sampson Haubury — names since as much 

 distinguished as his o^vn in their respective walks. 



When 14, he was apprenticed to a surgeon at Worcester, under 

 whom and his successor, he continued to improve his classical 

 knowledge, and acquired a practical acquaintance with the art of 



