LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. XV 
actually in the possession of the University and waiting for a 
resting-place, or they were pouring in from various quarters. The 
Natural History tripos was proposed. The appointment of a Pro- 
fessor of Zoology, until that time unknown in either University, 
was looming in the uncertain distance. What do we now see ? 
The Museum built and partly occupied ; the collections increased 
to an extent which could scarcely have been anticipated, chiefly 
through the munificence of one of our Fellows, the Rey. F. W. 
Hope ; the natural history specimens in the Ashmolean Museum 
transferred to the new Museum; honours conferred as a reward, 
in part, of a proficiency in natural knowledge, and a Hope Pro- 
fessor of Zoology actually appointed in the person of our own 
esteemed and talented Fellow, Professor Westwood, and this pro- 
vided for by an act of liberality, unexampled in late years, on the 
part of the same gentleman to whom I have before alluded. Pro- 
fessor Westwood is incessantly and enexgetically employed, in 
conjunction with his colleagues, in carrying out these objects. 
At present these absorbing duties necessarily occupy so much of 
his time that we have to regret the temporary suspension of those 
original researches which have so much enriched entomological 
science; but he is thus preparing not only the means of his own 
future contributions to scientific literature, but especially laying 
the foundation of a school of natural science in our oldest Uni- 
versity, which, I fully anticipate, will at a future day be unsurpassed 
in this country. 
Turning to Cambridge, alas! one sole event absorbs all our 
interest, and calls up all our sympathy. Within the last few days, 
and almost before the ink was dry with which I had recorded on 
these leaves the too sure anticipation of the approaching fatal 
result of our admirable friend’s illness, came the announcement 
that the University had been deprived of its excellent Professor 
of Botany, and we have to mourn the loss of as kindly and genial 
a spirit, and as honest and true a man, as ever endeared himself to 
his friends, or ever lived without an enemy. Professor Henslow 
has been so well and so long known, and his merits are so uni- 
versally appreciated, that I need not dwell upon them here, I 
will only say that our grief for his loss is enhanced by the hope- 
lessness of soon supplying his place in our esteem and affection, 
or his equal in the earnestness, zeal and success with which he 
carried out his benevolent schemes of enlarging and purifying 
the enjoyment of his peasant parishioners, by opening to their 
minds the beauties of nature, and showing them, as a Chris- 
