LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. XXIX 



Combs, in Suffolk, of wliicli place he had been rector for twenty- 

 eight years. Mr. Daniel was well known in his own circle for 

 his botanical acquirements ; aud he had formed a very extensive 

 and valuable collection of mosses, equalled, I believe, by few in 

 the kingdom. He became a Fellow of this Society on the 5th 

 March, 1862. 



Jfr. Thomas Corhyn Janson, who died on the 23rd of June last 

 at his residence at Stamford Hill, was born on the 1st July, 1809, 

 and consequently at the time of his decease had nearly com- 

 pleted his 54th year. 



His education was chiefly conducted at the school of Dr. Morell, 

 of Hove, near Brighton, with whom he was a favourite pupil. He 

 early showed a great proficiency in the dead languages, and being 

 in advance of the other boys of the school, though by no means 

 senior to all of them, he was taken out of the usual classes, and 

 read Thucydides and the more difficult authors in Grreek and 

 Latin with the master alone. During his boyhood he evinced 

 that ardent taste for natural science which never deserted him. He 

 joined but little in the ordinary sports of youth, but, while at 

 school, passed most of his play-hours in searching for fossils, with 

 which the neighbouring chalk- and gravel-pits abounded. Geology 

 was his first pursuit ; but on leaving school, and during the few 

 years which he passed at home before he engaged in business, he 

 devoted himself with his usual enthusiasm to botany, and made 

 a considerable collection of dried plants, chiefly from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Tunbridge Wells, where his father then resided. His 

 taste for botany was doubtless much increased by his intimacy, 

 almost from his childhood, with the late Mr. Joseph Woods, as 

 well as with our former Treasurer, Mr. Edward Forster, with 

 whom he was a not unfrequent guest both at Hale End and 

 Woodford. 



After he entered the banking-house, in which he continued a 

 partner to the time of his death, he had less frequent opportunities 

 for gratifying his taste in these pursuits, but took up the subject 

 of astronomy, which had also been a favourite study with him at 

 one part of his earlier life, and he was a careful and laborious 

 observer of the heavenly bodies. 



He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in March 1843, and 

 was a very constant attender at its meetings, as well as at those 

 of the Linnean Club. 



Mr. Janson followed science chiefly as a recreation. His re- 

 tiring habits prevented him from placing himself at any time 



