Xviil MEMOIR OF WILLIAM YARRELL. 



A tombstone erected to his memory bears the following 

 inscription : 



HEKE LIE THE REMAINS 

 OP 



WILLIAM YARRELL, V.P.L.S., F.Z.S., 



of St. James's, Westminster, 

 Author of a History of British Birds, and of a History of British Fishes. 



BORN, JUNE 3rd, MDCCLXXXIV. 

 DIED, SEPT. 1st, MDCCCLVI. 



He was the survivor of twelve Brothers and Sisters, who, with their Father 

 and Mother, are placed close to this spot. 



' ' first and last, 



The earliest summoned and the longest spared 

 Are here deposited." WORDSWORTH. 



His executors were his relative Mr. Bird, and his 

 friend and publisher Mr. Van Voorst, and the property 

 administered to amounted to about 17,000/. After his 

 death his extensive library of Natural History books 

 and his valuable collections of British Birds and Fishes 

 were sold by auction, at which the Fishes were pur- 

 chased for the British Museum. 



A portrait of him, painted in 1839 by Mrs. Carpenter, 

 is suspended in the hall of Burlington House, the ex- 

 pense having been defrayed by forty Fellows of the Lin- 

 nean Society ; and a Medallion Tablet executed by Mr. 

 Neville Burnard, has been affixed in St. James's Church, 

 at the west end of the nor th aisle. 



The portrait facing the title-page of Vol. I., engraved 

 by Mr. Frederick A. Heath, is from a photograph by 

 Messrs. Maull and Poly blank, taken in 1855. 



