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Jacob Bell, who died on the 12th of Jvme, 1859, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society on the 6th of March, 1832. 



Altliough he never took any active part in the labours of the 

 Linnean Society, Mr. Bell was a distinguished patron of art and 

 science. As the founder, moreover, of the Pharmaceutical Society, 

 and the active agent, at great personal labour and expense, in 

 the procuring of its Charter, he contributed very largely to the 

 advancement of an art in many ways intimately connected with 

 our pursuits, and thus demands from us a tribute to his memory. 

 A brief accovmt of his useful life and career is given in the ' Phar- 

 maceutical Journal ' for September 1859. In this he appears as 

 an upriglit, earnest, and excellent man, to whom science and art 

 were, indirectly, under considerable obligations. 



lAeutenant- General Sir Thomas MaMotiffall Brisbane, G.G.B., 

 G.C.H., Colonel of the Mth Begiment, F.B.S., and Pres. Boy. 

 Soc. Edin., B.C.L. of Oxford, was born at Brisbane, near Largs 

 in Ayrshire, in Jvily 1773. He entered the Army in 1782, at a 

 very early age, and accompanied the forces under the Duke of 

 York in the campaigns in Planders, where he was actively engaged 

 and received a wound. He subsequently served with distinction 

 under Sir Ealph Abercrombie in the West Indies, and under the 

 Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula, where he commanded a 

 brigade, and was present in most of the important battles, and 

 wounded in that of Toulouse. 



From 1820 to 1825 he filled the post of Governor-general of 

 New South Wales, where he established an observatory, and 

 favoured science in every way in his power. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on the 5th of 

 June, 1821, and died at Brisbane on the 27th of January, 1860, in 

 the 87th year of his age. 



Samuel Curtis, Esq., son of the well-known original proprietor 

 of the 'Botanical Magazine,' and author of the ' Flora Londinensis^' 

 was born in the year 1780. He commenced life as a nurseryman in 

 Essex, and acquired a considerable reputation in the planting and 

 laying-out of pleasure grounds and gardens. His scientific labours 

 appear to have been confined principally to the continuation of 

 the publication of the ' Botanical Magazine,' which, as is well 

 known, has since long flourished under the editorship of Sir W. J. 

 Hooker. Mr. Curtis was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society, 

 November 20, 1810. 



Some years since he retired to a curious little property which 

 he had purchased in the island of Jersey, and where he died on 



