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feet in height. The voyage lasted four years, and was fertile in 
observations of all kinds, amongst which, not the least important 
are those of Sir James Ross himself in terrestrial magnetism and 
meteorology, &c. Its results were published by himself in 1847. 
His last voyage to the Polar Seas was in 1848, when he went 
unsuccessfully in search of Sir John Franklin. He was knighted in 
1844, and received the decoration of the Legion of Honour from 
Louis Philippe. He became a Fellow of this Society February 3, 
1824; and died April 3, 1862, aged 62. 
Andrew Sinclair, M.D., was a surgeon in the Royal Navy. He 
entered the service about the year 1824, and was promoted to sur- 
geon’s rank in 1829. He was appointed surgeon of the surveying- 
expedition of H.M.S. ‘Sulphur’ on the Pacific coasts of North 
and South America, under the command, first, of Captain Beechey, 
and afterwards of Sir Edward Belcher, and has long been 
favourably known in botanical circles from the collections he then 
formed, and an account of which has been published, partly in the 
Supplement to Hooker and Arnott’s ‘ Botany of Beechey’s Voyage,’ 
and partly in Bentham’s ‘ Botany of the Voyage of the ‘ Sulphur.’’ 
In 1842 he was employed as surgeon of a convict-ship, and visited 
several Australian ports, collecting diligently everywhere. From 
Australia he went to New Zealand for the purpose of spending some 
weeks with the Antarctic Expedition, in which his friend Dr. Hooker 
was then doing the duty of Naturalist. During a second voyage to 
Australia in the same capacity, he met with Captain (now Admiral) 
Fitzroy, who was on his way to New Zealand as Governor, and who 
took Dr. Sinclair on with him as his private secretary. 
Not long after his arrival he succeeded to the post of Colonial 
Secretary, which he retained during the governments of Captain 
Fitzroy, Sir George Grey, and Colonel Brown. During all this 
period his delight was in botany, to which his leisure was almost 
entirely devoted, although he still found time also to make con- 
siderable and valuable collections, more especially of Sponges and 
Zoophytes. 
On the establishment of parliamentary government in New Zea- 
land, Dr. Sinclair visited England, and soon after received a pen- 
sion from the colony. But being still bent on the exploration of 
his favourite island, and being especially desirous to collect mate- 
rials from the Middle and Southern Islands for a Supplement to 
Dr. Hooker’s ‘ Flora,’ he returned in 1859. After several months’ so- 
journ in Auckland and in Nelson, he latterly repaired to Canterbury, 
and made arrangements with Mr. Haast for visiting Mount Cook, with 
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