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gatiou of the tree " (Brisbane), and eleven years later, " Cultural 

 Industries for Queensland ; Papers on useful plants suited to the 

 Climate "' (Brisbane). On 17th January, 1871, he was elected 

 Pellow of the Society, and then intending to retire from 

 biological pursuits he -withdrew in 1889, but in three years' time 

 he found himself obliged to come forward for re-election, which 

 took place on 15th December, 1S92. He died at Brisbane, 

 September 1908, In 1851 he married Mary, daughter of William 

 Bortou, of Boddington, Oxfordshire, and had four sons and four 

 daughters issue of the marriage. [B. D. J.] 



The death of CrinBEBX Collingwood on the 20th October, 

 1908, removes one of our oldest Fellows, his election having taken 

 place on the 1st November, 1853. He was born on Christmas 

 Hay, 1826, at Christchurch, Hampshire, and was educated at 

 King's College School, London, and Christ Church, Oxford, gradu- 

 ating B.A. in 1849 and pioceeding M,A. in 1852 and M.A. 

 Cantab, (ad eundem). He studied Medicine at Edinburgh 

 University, then at Guy's Hospital, London, and added to his 

 experience in Paris and Vienna. His medical qualifications were 

 M.B. Oxford, and M.E.C.P, London. In 1858 he became 

 lecturer on Botany at the Eoyal Infirmary Medical School, 

 Liverpool, subsequently Physician to the Northern Hospital in that 

 city, and for some years was honorary secretary to the Literary 

 and Philosophical Society, with other ofHcial appointments. To 

 the last-named society he contributed two papers on Ornithology 

 dealing with the notes of birds, and their migration, in 1861 and 

 1862. At the same period he was busied in reporting on dredging 

 marine organisms in the Eiver Mersey, and on the method of 

 advancing science by means of the mercantile marine, to the British 

 Association. Papers on the Quadrumana, and the ancient fauna 

 of Lancashire and Cheshire next engaged his attention ; but the 

 volume by which Collingwood is best known, is his ' Eambles of 

 a Naturahst on the shores aud waters of the China Sea,' which 

 recounted his observations made in 1866 and 1867 on board H.M. 

 vessels ' Eifleman ' and ' Serpent,' which appeared in 1868. In 

 the latter year he was elected on the Council of this Society, and 

 went out of ofiice in the following year. He was a fairly constant 

 attendant at our meetings until he removed in 1901 to Paris, 

 whei'e he lived till late in 1907, when he returned to London, and 

 died at Lewisham in his 82nd year. In 1869 he married Clara, 

 daughter of Sir Robert Mowbray. Besides the volume above 

 mentioned our late Pellow published 'A Vision of Creation,' 

 * The Bible and the Age,' and ' From Bevrout to Bethlehem.'. 



[B. D. J.j 



Hastings Charles Dent was born on the 23rd June, 1855, at 

 42 Thurloe Square, the son of Colonel Dent of the Coldstream 

 Guards, his mother being Lady Beaujolois Dent, daughter of the 

 2nd Earl of Charleville. Educated at private schools, and Owens 



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