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one of the original members of the Eepreaentatiye Council — a post 

 he continued to occupy almost without interruption till he was 

 raised to the honour of a seat in the Council of State in 1830. 

 Up to this time he had continued the practice of his profession, 

 which he now quitted in order to devote himself wholly to the 

 discharge of his public duties. His efforts in a public capacity 

 appear to have been directed to matters of hygiene, the institution 

 and regulation of schools and prisons, and the establishment of a 

 Penitentiary and of a Lunatic Asylum. In 1842, in consequence 

 of political changes, Dr. de Eoches vacated his seat in the Council, 

 but nevertheless continued, as long as his strength endured, to dis- 

 charge in the most conscientious manner all the duties of a good 

 citizen. 



The Bev. George Spence, LL.D., was one of the oldest Fellows 

 of the Society, having been elected on the 6th of February, 1827. 

 He died on the 13th of August, 1864, at Lee in Kent, in his 7lst 

 year. 



W. J. Hawhe Spin'k,M.B.C.S.E., Esq.,diiQdi at Norton-Malton, 

 Yorkshire, suddenly, of disease of the heart, on the 23rd of February 

 last, aged 45. 



Mr. Spink was the nephew and pupil of the late Dr. Spink 

 of Tadcaster, whom he for some years assisted in practice. 

 At his imcle's death, having independent means, he gave up 

 the intention of following the medical profession, and retired to 

 ISTorton, where he possessed other property. Being a lover of 

 natural history, a botanist, and entomologist, during his retire- 

 ment he had taken up a special branch of the latter science, 

 namely the collection, classification, and description of a variety 

 of Cocoons, British and foreign, — singular to say, a somewhat 

 neglected subject, and which, had he lived to work it out, 

 doubtless would have formed a speciality of great interest to the 

 natural historian. "With the view of laying the result of his labours 

 before his brother naturalists, he had but recently, at the recom- 

 mendation of Dr. Henry Scott, been proposed and elected to the 

 Fellowship of this Society. But in the very act of accomplishing 

 this work, at a comparatively early age and in the prime of life 

 he was taken from among us. The perfection of most branches 

 of science owes much to men taking up unhandled subjects, or 

 bringing to light objects of interest from some unbeaten track. 

 In this sense we must admire the labours of Mr. Spink, who was 

 never tired of peering into old trees, or turning up dead leaves, to 

 perfect an interesting speciality, his labours in which, had he been 



