THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



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Entomology," was the Chairman ; and it was then resolved to 

 form a Club. In the following May bye-laws were adopted, 

 and the privilege of membership was restricted to Fellows and 

 Associates of the Linnean Society. The object of the Club 

 was defined as " the study of zoology and comparative anatomy 

 in all their branches, and more especially as they relate 

 to the animals indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland." 

 After some communication with the parent Society the new 

 association was formally named the "Zoological Club of the 

 Linnean Society of London " ; and it was arranged that all 

 papers passed for publication should be offered to the Linnean 

 Society, in whose Transactions (vols, xiv.-xvi.) many of them 

 appear, for the Club had no publication of its own. The 

 following is a list of the original members, and (C) denotes a 

 member of the Committee: 



* Bell, Thomas (C). 



* Bennett, Edward Turner (C).t 

 Blunt, Edward. 



Booth, Thomas Swift. 



* Curtis, John. 



Dale, James Charles. 



* Donovan, Edward. 

 Du Bois, Charles. 

 Hatchett, John. 

 Hatchett, John, jun. 

 Haworth, Adrian Hardy (C). 

 Henslow, John Stevens. 



* Horsfield, Thomas, M.D. (C). 



* Jenyns, Leonard, Rev. 



* Kirby, William, Rev. (C). 



* Lovaine, George, Lord. 



* MacLeay, Alexander. 



* MacLeay, William Sharp. 

 Milne, George (C). 



* Percy, Hon. William Henry. 



* Sabine, Joseph (Chairman). 

 Sheppard, Revett, Rev. 

 Sheppard, Edmund. 



* Sowerby, George Brettingham. 

 Sparshall, Joseph. 



Spence, William. 



* Stephens, James Francis (Treas. 



* Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (Sec] 



Owing to some misunderstanding Mr. Swainson declined 

 to join the Club on its foundation, though he was elected in 

 1825. Among other members who played an important part 

 in the early history of the Zoological Society must be men- 

 tioned Mr. J. E. Bicheno (Chairman 1825-6), Secretary of the 

 Linnean Society; Mr. J. Children (Chairman 1826-7), of the 

 British Museum ; Mr. W. J. Broderip, the author of " Zoological 

 Recreations," etc. ; Mr. Edward Griffiths, translator and editor 



* Names marked thus appear in the first printed list of members of tho 

 Zoological Society, January, 1829. 



t "Under his management the Zoological Club [of the Linnean Society] became 

 the starting-point of the Zoological Society of London."— Diet. Nat. Biog.^ iv. 241. 



