Zoological Society. 425 
He was admired for his varied accomplishments and for his depth of 
intellect, and loved for his amiable disposition and agreeable manners. 
He died at St. Petersburgh on the 12th of March 1844. 
And lastly we have to lament the death of one Associate. 
Thomas Charles Hope, M.D., F.RS., V.P.R.S.E. &c., Professor of 
Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh. 
His earliest contribution to the Transactions of the Royal Society 
of Edinburgh was ‘‘ An Account of a Mineral from Strontian, and of 
a peculiar species of Earth which it contains,” published in the third 
and fourth volumes. But his most important researches were on the 
subject of Heat, and on the Phenomena of Freezing, an object which 
occupied his attention almost to the period of his death, his last com- 
munication to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, read on the lst of 
May 1843, being “An Attempt to explain the Phznomena of the 
Freezing-cavern vat Orenburg.’’ On the 3rd of April in the same 
year he ‘had laid before the same Society a paper entitled ‘‘ Chemical 
Observations on the Flowers of the Camellia Japonica, Magnolia 
grandiflora and Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum; and on three proxi- 
mate principles which they contain,” thus connecting his later che- 
mical with his earlier botanical pursuits. 
Dr. Hope was the oldest surviving Member of the Linnean Society, 
having been elected an Associate « on the 18th of March 1788. In 
the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edin- 
burgh, and in 1810 of the Royal Society of London. In 1843, he 
found himself unequal to the continuance of his lectures, which were 
delivered for him by Dr. Traill, and he shortly afterwards resigned 
the Chemical Chair. He died on the 13th of June 1844, having nearly 
completed his 78th year. 
At the election which subsequently took place, the Lord Bishop of 
Norwich was re-elected President ; Edward Forster, Esq., Treasurer ; 
John Joseph Bennett, Esq., Secretary ; and Richard Taylor, Esq., 
Under-Secretary. The following five Fellows were elected into the 
Council in the room of others going out : viz. C. C. Babington, Esq., 
Secretary of the Cambridge Philosophical Society; Thomas Bell, 
Esq., Professor of Zoology in King’s College, London ; Bracy Clark, 
Esq. ; Edwin John Quekett, Esq. ; and Richard Horsman Solly, Esq. 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
July 8, 1845.—William Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Gould exhibited to the Meeting five new species of Mam- 
mals :— 
Mus uineoxtatus. WM. vellere longo, molli fusco-cinereo corpore 
subtis cinerascenti-albo indistincte fiavo-lavato ; auribus mediocri- 
bus extus pilis nigris posticé cinerascentibus vestitis ; pedibus albis ; 
caudd albd supra nigrescentibus. une. lin. 
Longitudo ab apice rostri ad caude basin.... 5 4 
CRITE «aap a a el lata Se eo 4 5 
ab apice rostri ad basin auris | Re - 
GMIIS. o-5:6 am,» a a a G hd ean QO 74 
tarsi digitorumque . Tate aslo elev Tea aRCT 1 23% 
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