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this was because of the constant, watchful ministering 

 care of his wife (his own cousin). He received the Royal 

 and Copley Medals from the Royal Society ; the Wollaston 

 Palladium Medal from the Geological Society ; as well as 

 honorary titles from the Prussian Government, and from 

 the Academy of Vienna. 



His extreme candour was an outstanding characteristic. 

 Tliis was well shown by an annual contribution to the 

 funds of the South American Missionary Society ; the 

 result, it is said, of a discussion on the futility of such 

 missions between himself and a pious young lieutenant, 

 during the voyage of the " Beagle ; " his opponent having 

 shown him, after thirty years, what good had been done 

 by Christian missions amongst these savages. 



Darwin's death took place on Wednesday, 19th April 

 1882, at his house near Fanborough, in Kent, in his seventy- 

 fourth year. His funeral took place on the 26th April, and 

 his body was interred in Westminster Abbey. Amongst 

 the numerous mourners present were dukes, earls, lords, 

 baronets, knights, canons, clergymen, professors, naturalists, 

 students. 



Obituary Notice of Deputy Surgeon-General Jameson, CLE. 

 By Hugh Cleghorn, M.D., F.L.S. 



(Read 13tli July 1882.) 



William Jameson, F.R.S.E., for many years Superintend- 

 ent of the Government Botanical Gardens in the North- 

 West Provinces of India, was one of our oldest members ; 

 he attained celebrity by the efforts he made for the pro- 

 motion of tea culture in North India, and his name will 

 always be associated with the successful establishment of 

 this new industry in our great Eastern Empire. 



Mr Jameson was born at Leith in 1815, and received his 

 early education at the High School, and his medical train- 

 ing at the University of Edinburgh, where his distinguished 

 uncle. Professor Robert Jameson, filled the chair of Natural 

 History for half a century from 1804 to 1854. While the 

 two nephews Lawrence and William, the subject of our 

 sketch, assisted in the class and in arranging and keeping 



