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 OBITUAEY.* 



Seven Fellows have died during the past year, viz. :— Mr. E. J. 

 Bagshaw (London), elected 1846, died 14th August, 1878 ; Mr. E. 

 Branwell, M.E.C.S. (Brighton), elected 1873, died 23rd Septemher, 

 1878 ; Dr. H. Owens, M.D., M.E.C.S. (London), elected 1867, died 

 9th September, 1878 ; Captain E. W. Eoberts, F.E.G.S. (Boxmoor), 

 elected 1866, died 12th June, 1878 (of whom we have not received 

 any Obituary Notices) ; and the following : — 



Mr. John Egbert Burton (a successful merchant, and one of the 

 founders of the " British Empire Life " and " Perpetual Building 

 Society," on the management of which he continued to the last) died 

 at his residence, Huskards, Ingatestone, on the 20th November, 1878. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1861, and though rarely 

 seen at the meetings, was much attached to the use of the Micro- 

 scope, and occupied himself in his leisure hours with mounting objects. 



Mr. George Guyon was a descendant (the great-grandson) of the 

 famous French Huguenot family of Guyon ; the head of which, Guyon 

 de Geis, Sieur de Pampelona, came over to England at the Eevoca- 

 tion of the Edict of Nantes, and took service under William III. 

 He was born at Eichmond, in SiU'rey, on March 10th, 1824, after 

 the younger of the senior members of his family had grown up. One 

 of these, General Guyon, became famous subsequently for his defence 

 of Ears (in conjunction with Sir Fenwick Williams) against the 

 Eussians. 



From his birth Mr. Guyon was so delicate as to preclude the pos- 

 sibility of his being educated for any profession. He very early 

 exhibited the strongest predilection for science, and especially for 

 natural science, devoting himself at one period of his life largely 

 to Entomology. He leaves an extensive and valuable collection of 

 Coleoptera. He later took up the Microscope enthusiastically, and 

 became an expert and dexterous manipulator. His neatness in 

 mounting objects was remarkable, and he had accumulated a large 

 number of specimens illustrative of various branches of natural his- 

 tory. By his physician's order, he was for some years compelled to 

 pass the winter at Ventnor, which he ultimately made his permanent 

 residence, and where he erected an astronomical observatory, furnished 

 with a fine equatorial, &c. 



There were few more delightful men in society than Mr. Guyon. 

 His varied and extensive reading supplied an inexhaustible fund of 

 conversation ; while his numerous accomplishments, and unflagging 

 readiness to enter into any scheme of amusemeut or instruction, ren- 

 dered him a favourite both with old and young. Nor was his pen idle. 

 He contributed, propria nomine, and under his initials " G. G.," pretty 

 frequently to 'Science-Gossip'; appearing at other times as "Vec- 

 tensis " in the ' English Mechanic' Lastly, he was a munificent 

 anonymous donor to nearly all the leading charities in England. 



* Pressure on our space made it necessary to omit this in the last number. It 

 should have accompanied the Report of the Council. 



