LINKEAN SOCIETY OF LOKDOK. Hx 



acknowledging that his expenses and labonrs had been amply re- 

 paid. 



" The great object of my ambition," he said in 1858, " is to place 

 my collection in the British Museum that it may be accessible to 

 all the scientific world, and where it would afford to the public 

 eye a striking example of what has been done by the personal 

 industry and means of one man." 



This worthy object has been obtained, and the British Museum 

 has since his death purchased this unrivalled collection, and placed 

 it where its founder's wishes desired it to be. 



The Linnean Society, also, owes a special debt of gratitude to 

 Mr. Cuming, who several years since presented to our Library his 

 extensive collection of Conchological "Works, into possession of 

 which we have now entered. 



William Freeman Daniell, M.B., F.B.G.S., Staff-Surgeon in the 

 Army, was born, I believe, at Liverpool, in the year 1818, so that, 

 having died on the 26th of June last, he would have been forty- 

 seven years of age at the time of his death. In 1841 he became 

 a Member of the Eoyal College of Surgeons of England, and 

 shortly afterwards entered the medical department of Her Ma- 

 jesty's Army. He then served the whole of his time as Assistant- 

 Surgeon on the pestilential coast of West Africa, and obtained his 

 promotion to the rank of Staff-Surgeon on his return to England 

 in 1853. About this period he was elected Honorary Member of 

 the Pharmaceutical Society. He afterwards proceeded to the West 

 Indies, where he served for some years. In 1855 he was elected 

 a Eellow of the Linnean Society ; and in 1857 a Fellow of the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons of England. In 1860 he accompanied 

 the "Expeditionary Eorce " to China, and was present at the 

 taking of Pekin. A short time after his return to England from 

 China he went to the West Indies, and returned from Jamaica in 

 September last, with his constitution completely broken up by the 

 climate and by his devotion to scientific studies ; and though he 

 rallied to some extent for a short period, no hopes were enter- 

 tained of his ultimate recovery, and he died, after a long and pain- 

 ful illness, at Southampton in June last. He was buried at Kensal 

 Green on July 3rd. Dr. Daniel! was a valuable contributor to 

 the Museum and ' Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society.' His 

 first contribution to the ' Journal ' was in Eebruary 1850, " On 

 the D'Amba, or Dakka, of South Africa;" followed by papers 

 " On Zea Mays and other Cerealia of West Africa ;" " Bynsej^alum 

 dulciferum, or Miraculous Berry of West Africa;" " Sansevieria 



