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~ yon of botanical science, but an author of several splendid works ; 
of William Cristy, Esg., an excellent botanist and universally be- 
loyed, who was removed at an early age; of Allan Cunningham, the 
- celebrated traveller and botanist, who, after the melancholy death of 
his brother Richard, was appointed to succeed him as colonial botanist 
at New South Wales, where he died in about a year after his arrival ; 
Davies Gilbert, Esq., late President of the Royal Society, aged Tas 
Rev. Patrick Keith, the well known physiological botanist, aged 71. 
Among the foreign members we find the name of Don Mariano La- 
gasca, of Spain, a distinguished botanist, who had spent many years 
in England, having been obliged to take refuge there at the over- 
- throw of the constitutional government in 1622: also the profound 
John Frederick Blumenbach, so long a celebrated name in anatomy 
and physiology ; he was’ PRrofessor of Medicine in the University of 
Géttingen, where he tie22d of January last, at the advanced 
Ur Vienna, Professor of Botany and 
~ Chemistry in the Ufiiver rector of the Botanic Garden of 
Vienna, which situations he yr many years, having succeeded 
“he published the Ecloge Plantarum, in the 
same style with the large and splendid series of works of the elder 
Jacquin. 
From another source we learn that natural science has recently 
sustained another severe loss, in the death of Prof. Meyen, of Berlin, 
the distinguished vegetable anatomist. The November number of 
the . Is of Natural History announces the death of Prof. Wieg- 
mai “also of the University of Berlin, a well known zoologist, and 
the editor of the Archiv fir Naturgeschichte, in which Prof. Meyen’s 
smaller memoirs have generally appeared. The same journal also 
announces the decease of Mr. Vigors, the distinguished English or- 
nithologist. 
Dr. Buckland, in his anniversary address, Feb. 21, 1840, before the 
Geological Society of London, continues the melancholy catalogue. 
Mr. William Smith, of Scarborough, England, aged 71, after a few 
days illness, in August, 1839, on his way to the meeting of the British 
Association at Birmingham. He was justly styled the father of Eng- 
lish geology, since to his discoveries we owe the first difiusion of ex- 
act knowledge as to the order of superposition of the secondary for- 
mations which occupy so large a portion of that island, and the first 
demonstration of that constancy of the organic remains, which he 
proved to be characteristic of the component strata of each different 
formation. It was the especial merit of Mr. William Smith to estab- 
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2 short notices of each. ‘We find among the fellows the names of | 
John, Duke of Bedford, who was not only a most munificent pat-— 
