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served on tlie Library Committee aud Council of this Society 

 from 1S87 to the time of his death. 



Herbert Carpenter was a man of remarkable industry and 

 perseverance, ever full of enthusiasm iu his work ; few who have 

 done so much appeared to have a future before them so pro- 

 mising of rich results. His sad aud untimely death on the 

 22nd of October, 1891, at the early age of 39 has removed a 

 leader from the ranks of British biologists whose loss will be 

 mourned by all to whom his genial disposition aud sterling 

 goodness had bound him. 



Capt. William CtiiM:MO was born in 3828, and entered the 

 Eoyal JSTavy in 1841. He obtained the rank of Lieutenant iu 

 1850, and of commander in 18G4; and he retired with the rank 

 of post-captain in 1873. He served in the first and second 

 China wars, against pirates iu Borneo, and for six and a halt 

 years was engaged in the 'Herald' in the search for Sir John 

 Franklin. Afterwards he led tlie successful search for Mr. Grregory 

 and his exploring party in Torres Straits. In addition to this, 

 he distinguished himself by the important physical and biological 

 observations which he made during the various surveying expe- 

 ditions on which he was subsequently employed for a long series 

 of years by the Hydrographical Department. Accounts of these 

 are published in the ' Journal' aud ^ Proceedings ' of the Eoyal 

 Geographical Society ; and he also published as separate works 

 the ' Voyage of H.M.S. Torch from Sydney to the Gulf of 

 Carpenteria and Batavia' (London, 1857), and the 'Natural 

 History of the Euplectella aspergillum (Venus's Flower-Basket) 

 from the Philippine Islands,' with plates (1878). 



Captain Chiramo was Secretary to the Hydrographer of the 

 Admiralty from 1856 to 1858. 



He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1877. He was also 

 a Fellow of the Eoyal Geographical, Astronomical, and Meteoro- 

 logical Societies. He died on 30th of October, 1891. 



Petes Maetin Duxca-N was born at Twickenham on April 20tb, 

 1824. After passing the early stages of his education at the 

 Grammar School of his native village and at a school in Switzer- 

 land, he entered, in the autumn of 1842, the Medical Depart- 

 ment of King's College, London, where he worked with distinction. 

 He took his M.B. (London) degree in 1846 ; and iu 1849 he was 

 elected an Associate of his College. 



His duties as a medical practitioner began at Eochester, 

 where he acted as assistant to Dr. Martin until, on the purchase 

 of a practice at Colchester, he commenced on his own account. 

 "Whilst settled in Colchester he took an active interest in politics 

 and in municipal affairs, which resulted in his election in 1857 

 to the Mayorality of the borough, a testimony to his popularity 

 as well as to the appreciation in which he was held by his fellow 

 townsmen. His energetic personal endeavours to improve the 



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