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weeks' suffering he died on 22nd December, 1906, a few day» 

 after completing his 79th year, leaving seven children and nine 

 grandchildren. 



He was elected a Fellow, 4th April, 1861. [B. D. J.] 



Sir Walter Lawry Buller, K.C.M.Gt., F.K.S., D.Sc, vi-as 

 born in 1838 and died at Pondtail Lodge, Meet, Hants, on 

 July 19th, 1906. His father was the Eev. James Buller, of 

 Canterbury, New Zealand. He vi'as educated at Auckland and 

 studied afterwards under the well-known naturalist, William 

 Swainson, F.R.S., who was living in the colony. While still 

 young he took an active part in the affairs of the Colony and. held 

 various official appointments, in which his thorough knowledge of 

 the Maori language was of much service. When he was thirty- 

 three years of age he came to London as Secretary of the New- 

 Zealand Agency. Li 1873 he published his celebrated and 

 magnificently illustrated monograph on the Birds of New Zealand, 

 of which a second edition appeared in 1888. His name will 

 always be remembered as that of one of the great pioneers 

 of New Zealand Natural History, He was elected a Fellow of 

 the Linneau Society, 21st January, 1858. [A. D.] 



Edward Chapman, who died at Hill-end, Mottram in Longdendale, 

 Cheshire, on the 25th July last, was the son of John Chapman, M.P., 

 and was born on the 12th October, 1839. He matriculated at his 

 father's college (Merton) in 1860, where he had as contemporaries 

 W. C. Sidgwick and (Bishop) Creighton. Li 1863 he married 

 Elizabeth Beaudoe, daughter of F. Grundy of Mottram, and took 

 his degree the following yeai- — First Class Honours in Natural 

 Science. Following this he became Tutor in Natural Science in his 

 own college. The development of the Manchester, Sheffield, and 

 Lincolnshire Railway (in which he had an hereditary interest) into 

 the Great Central Bail way compelled him at a later period to 

 withdraw from academic life and residence ; but Magdalen College 

 in 1867 re-elected him " Fellow without emolument," a position 

 he highly valued, as enabling him to keep touch with old Oxford 

 friends. His chief scientific work was done in the Daubeny 

 Laboratory at Magdalen, one of his old pupils, Mr. E. T. Giinther, 

 succeeding him as Tutor. 



The causes which compelled him to remove from Oxford con- 

 tinued opei-ative during the rest of his life. He was Deputy- 

 Chairman of the Great Central Railway, Lord of the Manor of 

 Hattersley, Chairman of Aarious local bodies. Justice of the 

 Peace, and Member of Parliament for the Hyde Division of 

 Cheshire from ]900 to 1906. He was elected Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society, 2ud May, 1872. [B. D. J.] 



No loss during the past Session has inflicted so deep an 

 impression on this Society as the unexpected death of Charles 

 Baron Clarke last summer. The eldest son of Turner Poulter 



