e PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



exposure and fatigue on Ms return journey througli Spain from 

 Gribraltar ; so that the inclement winter told with additional force 

 upon a constitution naturally susceptible of cold, and weakened 

 by long residence and exposure in India. On the 19th of January, 

 on his return from a meeting of the Council of theEoyal Society, 

 he felt depressed and feverish. The attack speedily became deve- 

 loped into acute rheumatism, complicated with bronchitis and 

 congestion of the lungs, which proved fatal on the morning of the 

 31st of January. On the 4th of Eebruary his remains were com- 

 mitted to their last resting-place, at Kensal Grreen, in the presence 

 of a large number of his sorrowing friends and fellow-labourers. 



Erom what has been said, it is obvious that Ealconer did enough 

 during his lifetime to render his name immortal in science as 

 one of the greatest palaeontologists who ever lived. But the work 

 which he published was but a small fraction of that which he ac- 

 complished. The amount of scientific knowledge which has 

 perished with him is prodigious ; for he was cautious to a fault ; 

 he never liked to commit himself to an opinion until he was sure 

 that he was right ; and he has died in the fulness of his power, 

 before his race was run. In summing up the character of this 

 remarkable man, those who knew him well can best appreciate his 

 fearlessness of opposition when truth was to be evolved, his origi- 

 nality of observation and depth of thought, his penetrating and 

 discriminating judgment, his extraordinary memory, the scrupu- 

 ous care with Avhich he ascribed to every man his due, and his 

 honest and powerful advocacy of that cause which his strong 

 intellect led him to adopt ; whilst they, more than others, will 

 have occasion to deplore the death of a staid adviser, a most 

 genial companion, and a hearty friend. His place, indeed, no 

 man can fill. 



Thomas Sunderland Sarrison, 3£I)., died at Bath on the 22nd 

 of December, 1861, aged 61. He was at one time lecturer on 

 Midwifery at the Charlotte Street School of Medicine, and was 

 Senior Physician to the Farringdon Dispensary. In later life he 

 had been for many years a Magistrate of the county of Somer- 

 set. He became a Eellow of this Society on the 16th of Jan- 

 uary, 1814. 



William Sharp MacLeatj, Esq., M.A., ^c, was born in London 

 on the 30th of July, 1792, the eldest son of the late Alexander 

 MacLeay, F.E.S., so well known in the annals of this Society, as 

 whose Secretary he acted for the long period of twenty-seven 

 years, or from 1798 to 1825, when he proceeded to Australia 



