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negligent of himself when lie had an object before Mm. During 

 the last spring he had suffered a good deal from a bad cough ; 

 but notwithstanding this, on the occasion of a late visit by seve- 

 ral of his friends to the ossiferous caves in the Yalley of the Meuse 

 and Lesse in Belgium, he joined the company at Liege, suffering 

 at the time a good deal from cough and general weakness. On 

 quitting this party at Dinant, on the 20th of April, he proceeded 

 to Paris to join M. Lartet in a journey to Switzerland. Before 

 they set out, however, M. Lartet, who had noticed a great alte- 

 ration ia his voice, and was alarmed at the violence of his cough, 

 persuaded him to take medical advice ; but this it appears was 

 unavailable to prevent his continuiag the projected journey, the 

 object of which was the comparison on the spot, by himself and 

 M. Lartet, of the animal remains from the Dordogne with those 

 collected from the pile-dwelliags of Switzerland. He accordingly 

 set out with his attached friends M. and Madame Lartet. Ar- 

 riving the following day at La Palisse, he exposed himself a good 

 deal to heat and fatigue in an excursion in the neighbourhood of 

 that town, and in the evening was compelled to take to his bed, 

 whence he never rose again, and where, in spite of the most 

 attentive kindness and the ablest medical advice, and after several 

 fluctuations of hope and despair in those who watched him, he 

 died, on the 4th of May, iu the fifty-fifth year of his age. His calm- 

 ness and resignation in the immediate prospect of death, and 

 the kiad and considerate manner in which he expressed himself 

 towards his friends and with respect to the objects to which he 

 had devoted his blameless life, appear to have been truly remark- 

 able, and to show more clearly than anything else his true cha- 

 racter as a most excellent and wholly unselfish man. 



Hugh Falconer, M.B., Vice-Fres. B.S., For. Sec. G.S., ^c, was 

 born at Forres, in the north of Scotland, on the 29th February, 

 1808. His early education was conducted at the Grrammar School 

 of Porres ; and he afterwards studied arts for four years at King's 

 College, Aberdeen, and medicine for an equal period in the Uni- 

 versity of Ediaburgh. 



As a boy he exhibited a decided taste for the study of natural 

 history, which he eagerly followed up in Ediaburgh under Pro- 

 fessors Graham and Jameson. When duly qualified, he was no- 

 minated to the appoiatment of Assistant-Surgeon on the Bengal 

 Establishment ; but, not having attained the required age of twenty- 

 two, he indulged the natural bent of his mind iti the compulsory" 

 interval in assisting the late Dr. N. Wallich in the distribution of 



