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and became a Eellow of this Society March 20, 1820, and of tlie 

 Eoyal Society in 1828 ; and in 1832 he received the Diploma of 

 Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Munich, and in 1853 

 was chosen a Corresponding Member of the French Institute. 

 In 1857 he received one of the Eoyal Medals, in " recognition of 

 the value of his labours in various branches of Scientific Botany," 

 and more especially for his learned and comprehensive works on 

 the Natural Orders of Plants, on the Orchidaceae, and on Theo- 

 retical and Practical Horticulture. To which may be added a 

 passage from the President's Address with reference to horti- 

 culture : — " Nor is it too much to say that it is mainly due to his 

 efforts that this branch of knowledge has risen from the condition 

 of an empirical Art to that of a developed Science." 



In 1851 Dr. Lindley was one of the Jurors appointed to inves- 

 tigate and report upon the substances used as food displayed in 

 the G-reat Exhibition of that year, the duties of which office, 

 performed as they would be by him, in conjunction with his other 

 labours, were so onerous that he became in consequence seriously 

 ill. At the time of the second Exhibition, in 1862, he was induced, 

 against the advice of his family, to take charge of the whole Co- 

 lonial Department ; and although constantly complaining of head- 

 ache, from which he had never before suffered, he refused to aban- 

 don his post. The consequence that might have been expected 

 followed; and at the close of the Exhibition it was obvious that 

 his mental and bodily powers had received an injury, from the 

 effects of which they never recovered. 



He died, rather suddenly, on the 1st of November, 1865. 



Sir John William Luhhock, Bart., 31.A., F.E.S., F.G.S., ^c, 

 was born on the 26th of March, 1803, the son of Sir John W. 

 Lubbock, Bart. ; he died on the 20th of June, 1865, at his resi- 

 dence, High Elms, near Earnborough, in Kent. Sir John was 

 educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he 

 graduated in 1825, taking high honours in Mathematics. He was 

 a firstrate mathematician, and for many years was devoted to 

 science, and particularly to that of Astronomy, in connexion with 

 which his attention was more particularly directed to questions 

 respecting the Action of the Tides, the Theory of the Moon, and 

 the Perturbations of the Planets, the determination of the distance 

 of a Comet from the Earth, and the elements of its orbit. He 

 was Treasurer of the Royal Society from 1830 to 1835, and again 

 from 1838 to 1845, and was for many years Vice- Chancellor of 

 the University of London. In 1831 the Royal Society awarded 



