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rality, and by his constant readiness to promote, by pecuniary as- 
sistance or by friendly advice, the advancement of all deserving 
applicants. 
Up to the year 1851, Mr. Borrer had enjoyed the full vigour of 
an excellent constitution ; but in that year he had a violent attack 
of illness, and though he sufficiently rallied even to enjoy several 
botanical excursions, he was from that time liable to frequent attacks 
of extreme debility. Yet he continued to take as much interest as 
ever in his garden and botanical collections, and was still, as through 
life, remarkable for his extreme accuracy and simplicity of style, 
whether in telling an anecdote or in describing a plant. 
At Christmas 1861, he attended the annual distribution of prizes 
at the Henfield National School, in returning from which he took 
a severe cold, resulting in pleurisy, from the effects of which he died, 
peacefully and calmly as he had lived, on the 10th of January, 
1862, in the 81st year of his age, deeply and deservedly lamented 
by his own numerous family, and by all who knew hin. 
George Charlwood, Esq., was formerly an eminent and much 
respected seedsman in Covent Garden. He was elected into the 
Linnean Society on the 16th of March, 1824, and died August 26, 
1861, at Feltham, where he had long resided, aged 77. 
Albert John Hambrough, Esq., who died at 14 Prince’s Terrace, 
Hyde Park, on the 6th June, of 1861, in his 41st year, had been but 
a few years a Fellow of this Society, having been elected only in 
February 1856. His usual residence was Steephill Castle, in the 
Isle of Wight, and he was well known as a zealous cultivator of the 
island flora. 
The Rev. Frederick W. Hope, D.C.L., F.RS., Fc., died on the 
15th of April, 1862, at his house, 37 Upper Seymour Street, Portman 
Square. He was born on the 3rd of January, 1797, in the same 
house, being the second son of John Thomas Hope, Esq. 
Entering Christchurch, Oxford, he graduated B.A. in 1820, and 
took his M.A. degree in 1823, and was ordained to the curacy of the 
family living of Frodesley, Shropshire, but his health did not long 
permit him to perform the duties of his profession. 
During his residence at Oxford, he devoted his leisure hours to 
the study of zoology, and especially of entomology, with great zeal. 
To this study he was much incited by the precepts and example of 
Dr. Kidd, who was at that time Regius Professor of Medicine, and 
whose lessons on zoological subjects strongly fostered the growing 
taste of the young student, who, throughout his future career, looked 
up to his teacher with kind feelings of regard, which were testified 
