442 Linnaan Society. 



which College he was twice President. At the accession of George 

 the Fourth he was knighted as a mark of acknowledgment to his 

 professional skill. He died at his house, in Langham Place, on the 

 2nd of November last, and was buried in the Cemetery at Kensal 

 Green. 



Mr. Carlisle became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1792, 

 and of the Royal Society in 1804 ; and his most imjiortant contri- 

 butions to Natural Science are contained in the Transactions of 

 these Societies. His paper on the Structure and CEconomy of 

 Ttenite, in the second volume of our Transactions, is probably the 

 first attempt to illustrate the structure of Etitozoa by artificial injec- 

 tions, and established, among other points, the non-existence of an 

 anus in the Tcenice. At this early period, Mr. Carlisle anticipated 

 M. Virey's idea of the state of the nervous system in the lowest 

 animals, on which the chief character of Mr. MacLeay's Acrita is 

 founded, ascribing to the Ttenice a diflfused condition of the nervous 

 substance, and referring to John Hunter as having, in his lectures, 

 applied that character to many of the lower tribes of animals. 



Of his papers in the ' Philosophical Transactions,' the first in im- 

 portance and originality is the memoir ' On the peculiar arrange- 

 ment of the Arteries in Slow-moving Animals ;' and it is on the 

 striking discovery detailed in it that his memory as a comparative 

 anatomist will chiefly rest. His paper on the Physiology of the 

 Stapes, published in the volume for 1805, affords a good example 

 of the application of Comparative Anatomy to the elucidation of a 

 difficult i^hysiological question ; almost all the facts contained in it 

 relating to the form and structure of the stapes in various animals 

 were new. The Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Organ 

 of Hearing formed the subject of his Lectures at the College of Sur- 

 geons in 1818. 



His Lectures on Extra-vascular Substances, also delivered at the 

 College of Surgeons, but of which an abstract only of a small por- 

 tion was pubUshed in the ' Annals of Philosophy,' are alluded to in 

 high terms by Mr. Lawrence. In 1820, and again in 182G, he de- 

 livered the Hunterian Orations at the College. The latter of these, 

 containing the Anatomy of the Oyster, has been quoted in reference 

 to the observations which indicate the sensibility of the Oyster to 

 light. He also spent much time in experiments on the growth and 

 reparation of Shell. In the prosecution of his various inquiries he 

 enriched the Museum of the College with some unique examples of 

 his peculiar anatomical skill. 



Besides these contributions to Comparative Anatomy and Animal 

 Physiology, Mr. Carlisle communicated to the Horticultural Society 

 a memoir ' On the connection between the Leaves and Fruit of 

 Vegetables, with other Physiological Observations,' and another 

 paper published in the 2nd volume of the Transactions of that So- 

 ciety. 



The Bishop of Chichestei'. 



Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill. 



Sir John William Lubbock, Bart. 



The Rev. Thomas Rackett, M.A., F.R.S., S^c, during a long life 



