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known ' Modern Classification of Insects,' in which the whole subject 

 is treated in a masterly manner, as has been acknowledged by many 

 most competent judges who have since profited by your labours. Of 

 your more recent memoirs, which we have especially in view on this 

 occasion, I may specify as particularly deserving of attention, those 

 on the Cleridse, Lucanidse and Paussidse, published in the Transac- 

 tions of the Linnean, Entomological and Zoological Societies, your 

 monographs on several Carabidous genera in Guerin's ' Revue Zoolo- 

 gique,' your contributions to' Fossil Entomology in the Journal of 

 the Geological Society, and the completion of the great work in folio 

 commenced by Mr. Doubleday on the genera of the Diurnal Lepi- 

 doptera. Nor can I quite pass over your archaeological researches, 

 though these are not connected with the objects of this Society. 



MR. WESTWOOD, This Medal is presented to you in token of 

 the interest which we take in your entomological researches, which 

 reflect so much honour on your talents and zeal. 



Obituary notices of deceased Fellows. 



DR. MARTIN BARRY was born at Fratton, in Hampshire, on the 28th 

 of March, 1802. Though originally designed for a mercantile career, 

 his strong bent for scientific pursuits led to his embracing the medical 

 profession, for which he studied in the Universities of Edinburgh, 

 Paris, Erlangen, Heidelberg, and Berlin, as well as in some of the 

 medical schools of London. He became a member of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and graduated as M.D. in the 

 University of that city in 1833. During the period of his student- 

 ship he took an active part in the Medical, Royal Physical, and 

 Wernerian Societies of Edinburgh, of which he was a member, and 

 he was subsequently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh. His love of fine natural scenery, and pursuit of botany and 

 geology, led him to devote his college vacations usually to excur- 

 sions in the mountain and lake districts of Scotland ; and, after a 

 session of study at Heidelberg in 1834, he spent the autumn of that 

 year in a pedestrian tour through part of Switzerland. 



In the course of these wanderings he arrived at Chamouni on the 



