THE LATE DR. LANKESTER. 
WE have to record, with much regret, the death of Dr. 
Edwin Lankester, one of the founders of this Journal, and for 
many years one of its Editors. 
Dr. Lankester was born April 23rd, 1814, at Melton, 
Suffolk, and was educated at Woodbridge, where he was 
articled to the late Mr. Samuel Gissing, surgeon. He studied 
medicine from 18384 till 1837 at University College, London, 
and in the latter year was made a Member of the College of 
Surgeons and Licentiate of the Apothecaries’ Society. In 
1839, he visited the Continent, and graduated at Heidelberg ; 
in 1843, he became Lecturer on Materia Medica and Botany 
at the School of Medicine adjoining St. George’s Hospital ; 
in 1844, he was appointed Secretary to the Ray Society ; and, 
in 1845, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1850, 
he was appointed Professor of Natural History in New Col- 
lege, London; in 1851, he received the degree of LL.D. 
from Amherst, United States. In 1855, he became Lecturer 
on Anatomy and Physiology at the Grosvenor Place School 
of Medicine ; in 1858, Superintendent of the Food Collection 
at the South Kensington Museum; in 1859, President of the 
Microscopical Society ; in 1862, Examiner in Botany to the 
Science and Art Department at South Kensington; and was 
elected Coroner for Central Middlesex in 1862. Dr. Lan- 
kester contributed to the ‘ Naturalist,’ ‘Annals .of Natural 
History,’ to the ‘ Pharmaceutical Journal,’ the ‘ Penny Cyclo- 
pedia,’ and ‘Reports of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science.” He wrote ‘ Natural History of 
Plants Yielding Food,’ and ‘ Memorials of John Ray,’ pub- 
lished in 1845; edited the ‘ Correspondence of John Ray,’ 
in 1846; contributed the article ‘‘ Rotifera” to the ‘ Cyclo- 
peedia of Anatomy and Physiology,’ and a “ Report on the 
Progress of Organic Chemistry,” to the ‘Companion to the 
British Almanack,’ in 1847; published a translation of 
Schleiden’s ‘ Principles of Scientific Botany’ in 1849; and 
contributed reviews of medical works and papers on Natural 
History to the ‘Atheneum.’ Dr. Lankester became joint- 
editor of the ‘ Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science’ in 
1853 ; he also wrote “ Botany ’’? in Hughes’s ‘ Reading Les- 
sons,’ and, by the command of Her Majesty, edited the 
‘Natural History of Dee-side.2 He translated Kiichen- 
