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became the publisher of many richly illustrated works on bota- 

 nical and other natural-history subjects, and was afterwards pro- 

 prietor of the late ' Literary Grazette,' which he edited with great 

 ability, though unfortunately not with great pecuniary success, 

 from 1850 to 1856. His last work, and by some considered his 

 best, ' On the Land and Freshwater Molluscs of the British Isles,' 

 was published in 1863. 



In June 1846 Mr. Eeeve read a paper before this Society " On 

 the Calcifying Functions of the Cowry and the Olive," which was 

 published in the Proceedings for that year ; and in the following 

 year a more important paper, " On the Structure and Comparative 

 Physiology of Chiton and Chitonellus,^'' which was published in 

 the nineteenth volume of the Liunean Transactions. 



In private life Mr. Lovell Eeeve was universally respected and 

 esteemed. He died on the 18th of November, 1865, after having 

 endured with the most exemplary patience the acute sufferings 

 caused by a most painful illness. 



Sir John Bichardson, M.B., G.B., F.B.S., was born in Dumfries 

 in the year 1787, and died at Grrassmere, on the 5th of June, 

 1865. This most distinguished naturalist and Arctic traveller 

 received his early education at the Grammar School of his native 

 town, and at the age of 14 proceeded to Edinburgh for his me- 

 dical education. In 1807 he entered the Eoyal JSTavy as Assistant- 

 Surgeon, in which capacity he was present at the siege of Copen- 

 hagen. In 1816 he graduated in Edinburgh, and was appointed 

 Surgeon to the * Hercules,' 74 ; and in this and other vessels he 

 continued to serve during the remainder of the war, and more 

 especially in the operations on the coast of Greorgia under Sir 

 George Cockburn, in which he was actively engaged in the capa- 

 city of surgeon to the marines employed on shore. 



In 1819 he was appointed to accompany the first polar land 

 expedition under Sir John Franklin. The extreme hardships and 

 perils undergone by him in common with the rest of this expedi- 

 tion, and the heroic manner in which they were borne, are too 

 well known to need relation here ; and the way in which Dr. 

 Richardson's part in it was appreciated by his chief cannot be 

 better given than in Sir John Franklin's own words : — " To Dr. 

 Eicliardson the exclusive merit is due of whatever collections and 

 observations have been made in the department of natural his- 

 tory ; and I am indebted to him in no small degree for his friendly 

 advice and assistance in the preparation of the present narrative." 

 In the years 1825-28 Dr. Eichardson formed part of Franklin's 



