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their members ; his election among the Foreign Members of the 

 Royal Society took place in 1855*. 



* The present brief sketch of the life and labours of Rathke has been taken 

 principally from an obituary notice by Professor Zaddach in the Proceedings of 

 the Physical and Economical Society of Kbnigsberg for December 1860, which 

 has been republished, together with a complete list of Rathke's writings, in the 

 December Number of the N. Preuss. Provinc. Blatter, 3 te Folge, vol. vi. 



