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entomology, geology and numismatics successively occupied his 
attention. He became a member of the Entomological Society in 
1835, and contributed some valuable papers in the second and third 
volumes of its ‘Transactions.’ He was elected a Fellow of the 
Linnean Society in 1839. 
Mr. Ashton was possessed, according to his biographer in the 
‘ Law Times,’ whence I have taken this short account of his life, of 
no ordinary mental powers, great originality of thought, and was 
familiarly versed in biblical lore. Of strong religious feeling, he 
took a lively interest in most of the popular religious societies of 
the day ; at the same time he was a man of strict integrity, chari- 
table, upright and uncompromising almost to a fault. 
He died at Richmond, on the 26th of August, 1860, at the early 
age of 47, and was buried at Kingsbury, Middlesex. 
Philip Edward Barnes, Esq., B.A., occupied the post of Danish 
Consul at Coquimbo. He was the son of Mr. Philip Barnes, an 
old Fellow of the Society, and one of the originators of the Royal 
Botanic Society, in whose service his son was at one time en- 
gaged as Assistant Secretary. 
Mr. Barnes was elected into the Society on the 18th of Decem- 
ber, 1838, and died at Copiapo, Chili, on the 2nd of October, 1860. 
Bracy Clark, Esq., the “ Father of the Linnean Society,’’ died 
on the 16th of December, 1860, at the advanced age of 90, having 
retained his faculties in almost full vigour to the last. In his own 
profession he was esteemed one of the most eminent, if not the most 
eminent, of veterinarians. At any rate, he was one of the first in 
this country to apply the resources of a liberally educated and well- 
informed mind to the study of the veterinary art, which, since the 
establishment of the college, has deservedly been admitted into the 
rank of a profession. He was born at Chipping Norton, in Oxford- 
shire, on the 7th of April, 1771, the ninth and last child of his 
parents, who belonged to the Society of Friends, and both of whom 
died within a few weeks of each other, before their youngest-born 
was two years old. He was left under the guardianship of a near 
relative, Mr. John Zachary, and at 8 years of age was placed at 
school at Barford, where he had a favourable opportunity of ac- 
quiring classical knowledge, and had among others for contempo- 
raries, Luke Howard and Sampson Hanbury—names since as much 
distinguished as his own in their respective walks. 
‘When 14, he was apprenticed to a surgeon at Worcester, under 
whom and his successor, he continued to improve his classical 
knowledge, aud acquired a practical acquaintance with the art of 
