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tions and voyages, and secured the publication of their results, 

 but also largely assisted many private collectors, whose fullest sets 

 are among the treasures of by far the richest herbarium ever ac- 

 cumulated in one man's lifetime, if not the amplest anywhere in 

 existence." 



Francis Ahlett Jesse, Esq., F.G.S., was the son of the late John 

 Jesse, of Llanbedr Hall, Denbighshire, well known as a pleasing 

 popular writer on zoological subjects, and who died in September 

 1863, after having been forty years a Fellow of this Society. Mr. 

 Prancis Jesse therefore has at any rate an hereditary claim to the 

 regard of naturalists, and was himself not undistinguished as an 

 entomologist. He died at an early age, on the 22ud November, 

 1865, having been admitted a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 

 the 5th December, 1861. 



John Lee, LL.D., Q.C., F.JR.S., ^c. ^c, died at an advanced age 

 at Hartwell House, his residence, near Aylesbury, on the 25th of 

 February. Though some time a Fellow of this Society, into which 

 he was admitted on the 4th December, 1855, and well known for 

 the encouragement he always afforded to those engaged in natural- 

 history pursuits. Dr. Lee had not himself paid much attention to 

 those branches of science. That to which he was more particu- 

 larly devoted was Astronomy, which he cidtivated with much as- 

 siduity with the aid of an observatory he had established at his 

 residence, and with such reputation and success as to lead to his 

 being selected to fill the Chair of the Eoyal Astronomical Society. 

 Somewhat excentric in his views on various subjects, Dr. Lee was 

 an ardent politician of extreme radical views, a teetotaller, and as 

 great an enemy to tobacco as King James the First. In his 

 character of a politician he, on several occasions, contested the 

 county seat with Mr. D'Israeli, but never with any chance of 

 success. 



In him his neighbours have lost an active magistrate, and 

 science has to deplore, if not a very distinguished, yet a very ar- 

 dent and ready auxiliary. 



JEdward Frederick Leehs, Fsq., a Solicitor by profession, and 

 Secretary of St. Ann's Schools, died November 1, 1865. I am 

 not aware that_ he had contributed anything to science ; but he 

 was an old Fellow of this Society, into which he was admitted in 

 the year 1845. 



John Lindley, LL.D., F.S.S., was born at Catton, near Nor- 

 wich, on the 5th of February, 1799. His father was a nursery- 

 man of considerable ability, and known to gardeners as the author 



