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oats: and many of those whom I am now addressing may remem- 
ber the extensive and interesting collection of Spanish Cerealia cul- 
tivated by Professor Lagasca in the garden belonging to the Society 
of Apothecaries at Chelsea. ‘The publication of a ‘ Ceres and Flora 
Hispanica’ had long been a favourite object with him, but which he 
did not live to accomplish. He departed this life in the 58th year 
of his age, on the 23rd of June last, at the palace of his early friend 
and school associate, the present Bishop of Barcelona, who hearing 
of his infirm state of health, had invited him to partake of his 
hospitality and kindness, in the hope that the milder air of Cata- 
lonia might be the means of restoring him. . His remains were ho- 
noured with a public funeral, and an oration was pronounced over 
him by his friend Don Augustin Yanez, Professor of Natural History 
at Barcelona. 
It was in Systematic Botany that Professor Lagasca had more 
particularly distinguished himself, and he has added greatly to our 
knowledge of various families of plants, such as Umbellifere, Dip- 
saceeé and Composite, of one of the groups of which, the Labiatiflore, 
he may be regarded as the founder. 
James Dottin Maycock, M.D.—Dr. Maycock is deserving of no- 
tice as the author of a Flora of Barbadoes, in which island he had 
long resided. The work forms a catalogue of the indigenous as well 
as cultivated plants of that island, and contains besides a number 
of interesting notices on their ceconomical uses. The author has fully 
established the identity of the species which affords the Barbadoes 
aloes, with the Aloe vulgaris, accurately figured in the ‘ Flora Grea.’ 
William Mills, Esq. 
Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart., F.R.S.—A distinguished cultivator of 
the science of Mineralogy, and who possessed one of the most ex- 
tensive and valuable collections in that department of Natural His- 
tory ever formed in this country. | 
James Sharpe, Esq. 
The Rev. Thomas, Lord Walsingham. 
Amongst the Foreign Members occur— 
John Frederick Blumenbach, M.D., Professor of Medicine in the 
University of Géttingen, Foreign Member of the Royal Society of 
London, and Associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the 
French Institute, was pre-eminently distinguished by his important 
researches in General Anatomy and Physiology, which he continued 
to prosecute during a long life ardently devoted to the advancement of 
science. He was equally remarkable for the extent and variety of his 
knowledge and the philosophical sagacity of his views. Professor 
Blumenbach died on the 22nd of January last, at the advanced age 
of 88. 
Joseph Francis, Baron Jacquin, Professor of Botany and Che- 
mistry, and Director of the Imperial Gardens at Schoenbrunn, near 
Vienna, to which appointments he succeeded on the resignation of 
his father, the celebrated traveller and botanist. He was author 
of Ecloge Plantarum, a folio work, containing descriptions and co- 
loured figures of the new and rare plants which flowered in the 
gardens under his care, and also of a valuable work on birds. 
