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Note on the Death of Mr. E. J. Quekett. 



We have been reminded by Mr. Bowerbank, in his address to the 

 Microscopical Society at the Anniversary Meeting in February last, 

 of a serious omission in not having previously noticed the death of 

 Mr. Quekett, a talented botanist, and a contributor to the pages of this 

 journal. Mr. Bowerbank alludes to our deceased friend in neai'ly the 

 following terms, and we beg sincerely to join in the sentiments which 

 that gentleman has so ably expi'essed. 



"Mr. Quekett was born at Langport, Somersetshire, in September, 

 1808; and in September, 1828, he commenced his attendance on 

 medical lectures at University College, London, and pursued his 

 studies with such assiduity that he gained a gold medal in the class 

 of anatomy and physiology, another in that of practical anatomy, and 

 a silver medal in that of chemistry, besides an honorary certificate in 

 every class he attended. In 1829 he passed his examination as Li- 

 centiate of the Society of Apothecaries, and in 1830 obtained his 

 diploma as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 

 He subsequently commenced the practice of his profession in Well- 

 close Square, and for several years held the appointment of Surgeon 

 to the Tower Hamlets' Dispensary. In 1835 he was appointed 

 Lecturer on Botany in the London Hospital Medical School, which 

 office he continued to hold to the time of his death. He was a Fel- 

 low and one of the Council of the Linnean Society, and a con- 

 tributor to its Transactions ; besides which he published various 

 papers in the 'London Physiological Journal,' the 'London Medical 

 Gazette,' and the ' Pharmaceutical Journal ; ' and to our own Trans- 

 actions, as you are aware, he was a liberal and highly valued con- 

 tributor. He died at his house in Wellclose Square, on Monday, the 

 28th of last June, in the 39th year of his age, and will long be held in 

 remembrance by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, for the 

 unaffected amiability of his disposition and the kindness and courtesy 

 of his manners." 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



Thursday, March 9th, 1848.— The Rev. Dr. Fleming, President, 

 in the chair. 



