XXX PEOCEEDINGS 01" THE 



before the public, and be never committed any results of his 

 observations to print; but as a lover of natural history he yielded 

 to few. He was a liberal contributor to objects connected with the 

 Societies to which he belonged ; and his premature death will be 

 felt as a loss not easily repaired. 



.Among many other instances of his liberality to this Society 

 may be specially mentioned a contribution of ten guineas to the 

 fund for meeting the expenses connected with our removal to 

 Burlington House ; a recent donation of twenty pounds to the 

 Library Fund ; a third cabinet, in addition to the two formerly 

 presented by his uncle (the late Mr. Joseph Janson), for the re- 

 ception of the Society's collection of fruits ; and a legacy of 

 £200, payable on the decease of his widow. 



Mr. Janson leaves a widow surviving him, but no issue. 



John Jesse, Esq., M.B.C.S., F.B.S. Sf B.A.S., died on the 

 23rd September, 1863, at his residence, Llanbedr Hall, near 

 Ruthin, in Denbighshire, in his 61st year, having been born at 

 Manchester in the year 1801. He was brought up to the medical 

 profession, and was admitted a member of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons in the year 1825. He was High Sheriff for Denbigh 

 shire in 1856, and in the commission of the peace for that and the 

 neighbouring counties of Cheshire and Montgomery. He con- 

 tributed several papers on professional subjects in the ' Provincial 

 Medical Journal,' as on " Haemorrhage and Necrosis after Ampu- 

 tation," and on the " Philosophy of Dislocation." Mr. Jesse had 

 an extensive knowledge of English literature and a general love 

 of science, and was a munificent contributor to many charitable 

 and religious works, amongst which may be recorded his gift of 

 a magnificent and costly window to Ruthin Church ; and at the 

 time of his death he was in the course of erecting a new church 

 for his parish, at a cost of upwards of £300. He was one of the 

 oldest members of the Linnean Society, having been elected on 

 the 21st January, 1823. 



Benjamin Maund, Esq., was born in the year 1790. Por many 

 years he carried on the combined business of a chemist, book- 

 seller, printer, and publisher, at Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire. 

 Having a great love for flowers and gardening, he endeavoured to 

 spread a taste for these subjects, and commenced, in 1825, the 

 publication of a monthly periodical, entitled ' The Botanic Grar- 

 den.' Each Number of this publication contained a plate repre- 

 senting four hardy garden flowers, neatly engraved from drawings 

 by Mr. Edwin Dalton Smith, accompanied by as many pages of 



