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pursuits, the article “ Rotifera,” in the ‘ Cyclopaedia of Anatomy 
and Physiology,’ a translation of Schleiden’s ‘ Principles of Botany,’ 
and one of Kuchenmeister’s ‘Animal Parasites.’ In 1859 he pub- 
lished a popular work of great value in spreading a taste for micro- 
scopical pursuits, his well-known ‘ Half-hours with the Microscope 
and it may be mentioned to his honour that for many years, both 
by writing and lecturing, he occupied a foremost place amongst 
those social benefactors who have succeeded in causing the physical 
and descriptive sciences to be recognized as necessary branches of 
national education. 
In 1862 Dr. Lankester was elected Coroner for Middlesex, an 
office for which he was well qualified, and the duties of which he 
discharged with a fearless regard for public interests. His genial 
manners, his readiness to assist others in the pursuit of knowledge, 
together with his zeal for sanitary and other measures of social 
amelioration, caused him to be highly appreciated by a wide circle 
of friends, by whom his death, at a comparatively early age, was 
sincerely lamented. It may be further mentioned that he acted as 
Secretary to the Ray Society for many years, and was elected a 
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1845. 
His death occurred, after a debilitating illness, at Margate, 
October 30, 1874, and he was buried at Hampstead. 
Dr. Lankester’s zeal for science, and with ampler opportunities, 
is fully inherited by his son, Mr. E. Ray Lankester, now Professor 
of Natural History in the University of Oxford. 
Mr. Henry Deane was born at Stratford, in Essex, on August 
11, 1807. After a very elementary education, he was apprenticed 
at the age of eighteen to a chemist and druggist at Reading, and 
subsequently took service in the firm of John Bell and Co., in 
Oxford Street. In 1837 he commenced business as a chemist and 
druggist at Clapham, which occupation he continued to the time of 
his decease. Mr. Deane was best known in his connection with 
the Pharmaceutical Society, of which he became one of the first 
members in 1841. In 1844 he was appointed an examiner; he 
was for many years a member of the Council, and filled the offices 
of Vice-President in 1851-2 and 1852-3, and of President in 1853-4 
and 1854-5. 
The relations of Mr. Deane with this Society cannot probably 
be better expressed than in his own words, as contained in an auto- 
biography which was published in the ‘ Pharmaceutical Journal ’ 
shortly after his decease : 
“In 1840 the Microscopical Society was formed, and my friend 
Frederick Bell and I joined it on the foundation. I invested 10?. 
in a microscope, and began work investigating and mounting 
objects with great ardour. This instrument did not long please 
me, and I got the basis of a better and more complete one, with 
