PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



course it appears to me that no better model can be chosen than 

 Charles Darwin's ' Variation of Animals and Plants under DomesT 

 tication,' 



OBITUAEY NOTICES. 



The Secretary then read the following notices of deceased Members. 



The Bev. Hamlet Clark, M.A., was born at Navenby, in 

 Lincolnshire, on the 30th of March 1823, and died at Rhyl, in 

 North Wales, on the 10th of last June. I have been favoured 

 with the following brief notice of Mr. Clark from his friend 

 the Rev. Gr. B. Blenkin, who says that "my remembrance of 

 Hamlet Clark extends back to 1833, when we were schoolfellows 

 at Beverley Q-rammar School. He was always a straightforward 

 and truthful fellow, one for whom a good deal of boyish sympathy 

 was felt ; for at that time his health was not strong, a circum- 

 stance which often prevented his joining in the sports of his 

 schoolfellows. 



On leaving Beverley, he went to read with the Eev. Mr. Scott 

 at Wappenham, where the love of insects appears to have been 

 awakened in him by some of his fellow-pupils. 



At Cambridge he soon became one of the most popular among 

 the undergraduates. Tall and handsome, and with a free open 

 countenance and frank and generous spirit, he soon won for 

 himself a reputation in College, and exercised a considerable 

 influence for good, more especially among the non-reading men. 



He was a most diligent and laborious worker and reader on 

 subjects of natural history, and especially entomology ; and, had 

 the same facilities existed at Cambridge then as now for acquiring 

 that kind of knowledge, there can be no doubt he would have 

 held a very high place in the opinion of the University, and 

 obtained a very high degree in the Tripos. As it was, he was 

 constantly reading books on the subject, and consorted with 

 others like-minded with himself, such as Wollaston, of Jesus, and 

 Babington, of St. John's, his rooms being piled up with cases for 

 insects. 



On. Saturday mornings (the Cambridge market-day) he used 

 to have a perfect bevy of callers from the country, bringing 

 insects for purchase, or ..other strange creatures they may have 



