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Born at St. Sever (Landes) in 1780, he lived to the age of 85, and died 
in his native town. Almost simultaneously with his election as one of 
our Honorary Members, he was in 1860 chosen Honorary President of 
the Entomological Society of France, a position corresponding with 
that formerly filled in this Society by our own still-more-venerable 
Kirby. 
Sir Robert Herman Schomburgk was first brought into notice at 
the Geographical Society by his exploration of Anegada, one of 
the Virgin Islands; he afterwards explored the rivers Essequibo, 
Corentyn, and Berbice. For his researches, by which Zoology and 
Botany were much enriched, and during which he sent home the 
Euryale Amazonica, now known as the Victoria regia, he obtained the 
‘gold medal of the Geographical Society in 1840. In 1843 he inves- 
tigated British Guiana, and for his services received thé honour of 
Knighthood. In the latter years of his life he resided at Bangkok, as 
Her Majesty’s Consul-General in the Kingdom of Siam. He returned 
to this country in the autumn of 1864, but died at Berlin on the 11th 
of March, 1865. 
General Sir John Bennett Hearsey, K.C.B., was a cornet in 1808 ; 
he was present at the battle of Seetabuldie and at the siege and cap- 
ture of Bhurtpore; in the Punjaub campaign of 1848—49 he was 
at Chilianwallah and Goojerat, and commanded the cavalry in the 
pursuit and at the final surrender of the Sikh army. He was several 
times wounded, and was made a K.C.B. for his services in the great 
mutiny of 1857. At that time he was in command of the Bengal 
division, with his head-quarters at Barrackpore. Speaking of a chief 
of long standing in the service, “ who to the cost of humanity was in 
charge of Meerut on that (first) day of evil omen,” the Competition 
Wallah says, “ Such a chief was not in charge of Barrackpore at the 
crisis when foresight, calmness and judicious severity broke up a bat- 
talion of murderous scoundrels, and saved the capital of India from 
the fate of Cawnpore. Hearsey at Meerut, Neill at Dinapore, and 
Outram at Allahabad, might have saved much of the good blood that 
was spilled, and much of the bad blood that remained.”* General 
Hearsey served fifty-three years in India, thirty-four of them without 
a furlough. He was a most zealous collector, and an untiring ob- 
server. It was to him and other officers in India that Prof. West- 
wood was indebted for the materials of that splendid work ‘ The. 
* “ Macmillan’s Magazine,’ viii. p. 343. 
