132 PKOCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Number of Members Elected during the Yeah. 



Elected 20. Deaths 6. 



** Jonathan Bagster, elected 18-10, died . 



*Geoffrey Bevington, elected 1857, died October 31, 1872. 

 *Kichard Hodgson, F.R.A.S., &c, elected 1849, died May 4, 1872. 

 *John Hollingsworth, M.K.C.S., &c, elected 1860, died May 23, 1872. 

 *Rev. Douglas Cartwright Timins, M.A., elected 1867, died May 5, 1872. 

 James How, elected 1 864, died December, 1872. 



Obituary. — The Society have to regret the decease of Bickard 

 Hodgson, who died at Hawkwood, Chingford, Essex, the 4th May, 

 after a very long illness, induced in great measure by his untiring 

 exertions in the cause of the debenture holders of the London, 

 Chatham, and Dover Eailway : was born in Wimpole Street, in 

 1804. He was educated at Lewes, passed some time in a banking- 

 house in Lombard Street, and eventually became leading partner in 

 the firm of Hodgson and Graves, the publishers in Pall Mall, from 

 which he withdrew in 1841, and thenceforth gave up his time to 

 scientific pursuits, first taking up daguerreotypy (then in its infancy) ; 

 he introduced many improvements in the manipulative part of the 

 process ; was very successful as an amateur in portraiture, and in 

 obtaining magnified representations of microscopical objects which have 

 rarely been surpassed. He also spent some time in endeavouring to 

 print from the silver daguerreotype plate, by submitting it to 

 chemical treatment, and proceeding as is usual in copperplate print- 

 ing. Though he had some fair results, the process was too delicate 

 and uncertain for general use, and he abandoned it to devote himself 

 more exclusively to the microscope and telescope. In 1852 he built 

 an observatory at Claybury in Essex, in which a 6-inch refractor was 

 mounted equatorially. This was afterwards removed to Hawkwood, 

 and a transit-room added, which now contains the 4-inch instrument 

 formerly in the possession of Dr. Lee, of Hart well. In 1854 he designed 

 the diagonal eye -piece which bears his name, by which the whole 

 disk of the sun can be observed without contracting the aperture of 

 the object-glass, a description of which appears in the Eoyal Astrono- 

 mical Transactions for that year. For many years he was a constant 

 observer of the sun, and made a series of drawings of many solar spots. 

 "Whilst so engaged, at 11.20 a.m., on the 1st September, 1859, he was 

 fortunate in witnessing the remarkable outbreak in a large spot, which 

 was simultaneously observed by Mr. Carrington at his observatory, 

 Eeigate. He became a Fellow of the Eoyal Astronomical Society 

 14th April, 1848, a Member of Council 12th February, 1858, and an 

 Honorary Secretary in 1863 ; a Fellow of the Eoyal Microscopical 

 Society 25th April 1849. 



The Eev. Douglas Timins, M.A., &c, who died on the 5th May last, 

 at the early age of thirty-five, was educated for the Church, and obtained 

 his degree of M.A. at Oxford with honours. He was always delicate and 

 suffered from a defect of sight, which threatened to become destructive 

 to vision. He was, therefore, recommended to travel, and being ex- 

 cessively fond of natural history, he took to entomological pursuits, 



