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feet in height. The voyage lasted foui* years, and was fertile in 

 observations of all kinds, amongst which, not the least important 

 are those of Sir James Ross himself in terrestrial magnetism and 

 meteorology, &c. Its results were published by himself in 1847. 



His last voyage to the Polar Seas was in 1848, when he went 

 unsuccessftdly ia search of Sir John Franklin. He was knighted in 

 1844, and received the decoration of the Legion of Honour from 

 Louis Philippe. He became a Fellow of this Society February 3, 

 1824 ; and died April 3, 1862, aged 62. 



Aiidreiv Sinclair, M.D., was a sui'geon in the Royal Navy. He 

 entered the service about the year 1824, and was promoted to sur- 

 geon's rank in 1829. He was appointed surgeon of the surveying- 

 expedition of H.M.S. ' Sulphur ' on the Pacific coasts of North 

 and South America, under the command, first, of Captain Beechey, 

 and afterwards of Sir Edward Belcher, and has long been 

 favoxirably known in botanical circles from the collections he then 

 formed, and an account of which has been published, partly in the 

 Supplement to Hooker and Arnott's ' Botany of Beechey's Voyage,' 

 and partly in Bentham's ' Botany of the Voyage of the ' Sulphur.' ' 

 In 1842 he was employed as surgeon of a convict-ship, and visited 

 several Australian ports, collecting diligently everywhere. From 

 Australia he went to New Zealand for the puqDose of spending some 

 weeks with the Antarctic Expedition, in which his friend Dr. Hooker 

 was then doing the duty of Naturalist. During a second voyage to 

 Australia in the same capacity, he met with Captain (now Admiral) 

 Fitzroy, who was on his way to New Zealand as Governor, and who 

 took Dr. Sinclair on with him as his private secretary. 



Not long after his arrival he succeeded to the post of Colonial 

 Secretary, which he retained during the governments of Captain 

 Fitzroy, Sir George Grey, and Colonel Brown. During all this 

 period his delight was in botany, to which his leisure was almost 

 entirely devoted, although he still found time also to make con- 

 siderable and valuable collections, more especially of Sponges and 

 Zoophytes. 



On the establishment of parliamentary government in New Zea- 

 land, Dr. Sinclair visited England, and soon after received a pen- 

 sion from the colony. But being still bent on the exploration of 

 his favourite island, and being especially desirous to coUect mate- 

 rials from the Middle and Southern Islands for a Supplement to 

 Dr. Hooker's ' Flora,' he returned in 1859. After several months' so- 

 journ in Auckland and in Nelson, he latterly repaired to Canterbury, 

 and made arrangements with Mr. Haast for visiting Mount Cook, with 



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