88 THE birjiin(;ham aquarium. 



to the table tanks, the ceuti-al transept for a similar purpose, and at the 

 end will be the large Concert or Lecture lioom, surrounded by galleriea, 

 and capable of holding 1,000 persons. The block of the present building 

 facing New Street will be retained, and converted into a large Restaurant 

 on the hrst floor, 70 feet long ; and the kitchens will be at the top of the 

 building, according to the most approved modern arrangement. Large 

 shops and sets of retiring rooms will be arranged on each side of the New 

 Street entrance ; and means of exit in the rear into Worcester Street will 

 be provided for the Aquarium and Concert Room. Mr. J. A. Chatwin, 

 F.R.I.B.A., is the Ai-chitect, and the writer is the Engineer. The com- 

 pany have got possession of the site, and the building will be commenced 

 at once. 



THE PiEY. ANDPtEW BLOXA:.!: A ^lE^.IOIE. 



BY THE REV. M. J. BERKELEY, M.A., F.L.S., ETC, 



There is, perhaps, no country in which so much good work in Natural 

 Science is done in a quiet and unpretending way as in our own. Many 

 persons, scattered up and down the country, are making valuable 

 observations, which are recorded by themselves or others, from time to 

 time, without taking any prominent position in the scientific world. 

 Such was the subject of the present notice, who, whether from modesty 

 or the cares of tviition, did not take a place as a leading Naturalist, though 

 he might well have done so from the good work he performed, and the 

 nunaorous reports on various matters which he I'urnished to journals of 

 more or less importance, though he has not left any great volume . behind 

 him to bear witness to his talents. 



The Rev. Andrew Bloxam, late Incumbent of TwA'cross, Leicester- 

 shire, and, at the time of his death, on February 2nd, 1878, Rector of 

 Great Harborough, was the fourth son of the Rev. Richai-d Rouse Bloxam, 

 D.D., one of the Masters of Rugby. He was born at Rugby, on the 22nd of 

 September, 1801, and was consequently in his 77th year at the time of his 

 death . He entered at Rugby School in the year 1809, leaving for Worcester 

 College, Oxford, in 1820, of which he ultimately became a Fellow. His 

 father had a great taste for archasology, inherited from his relative Mr. 

 Rowland Rouse, of Market Harborough, a taste which descended to his son 

 Matthew Holbeche, the excellent author of " The Principles of Gothic 

 Ecclesiastical Architecture," and other valuable antiquarian works. The 

 author of this notice recollects, when a schoolboy, procuring for the 

 father a dra\ving of the curious monument to the Loringe family in 

 Oundle Church. Mr. Bloxam's motber was sister of the celebrated 

 artist Sir Thomas Lawrence, and Mr. Purton, of Alcester, the author of 

 " The Midland Flora," his uncle by marriage, so that there was talent 

 and taste on all sides, and it would have been strange if, with these 

 advantages, he had not inherited some good qualities. There were, 

 moreover, circumstances which were highly in his favour. It has been 



