S26 Notice of the late Mr. George Caley, 



gress of the undertaking ; and its eulogy would proceed with 

 better grace from any other individual than myself, whose 

 pride it is to have been so confidentially associated in the 

 task. I shall merely mention how nobly the exertions of 

 the managers of the institution have been seconded by the 

 feelings of the country. In the short space of three years, six- 

 teen hundred individuals have united themselves to the Society. 

 Within the same period, a magnificent preserved collection in 

 every branch of zoology has been formed by the liberality of 

 its supporters ; while upwards of three hundred and fifty 

 Species of animals, including examples of almost every larger 

 group in zoology, have been exhibited in a living state in our 

 gardens and museum, for the greater portion of which the 

 Society is indebted to the same liberality. When I add, that, 

 during the same period, some hundreds of thousands of indi- 

 viduals have visited the repositories where these animals have 

 been preserved in all the vigour of life, and in the display, as 

 far as possible, of their native dispositions and economy, you 

 may judge how much has been efiected, not merely for the 

 recreation of so many individuals, but for the direction of 

 their minds to the cultivation of the great truths of our 

 science. 



• I now, gentlemen, take my leave. I commenced my address 

 to you with feelings of regret ; I conclude it with sentiments 

 of triumph. The recapitulation, which it has been my duty 

 to lay before you, of the events connected with our science 

 during the last few years, have served to effect this change of 

 feeling; for it has confirmed me in the conviction that we 

 have not lived in vain. Our part has been amply performed, 

 and we may now retire with honour from the scene. We 

 have merged into a higher body, which bears with it our feel- 

 ings, our principles, and our predilections. Above all, our 

 friendship will, I trust, ever continue equally active — the 

 delight and the pride of our future intercourse, as it has been 

 of our past, — although the body in which it was first cemented 

 is now dissolved. 



Art. II. Further Notice of the late Mr, George Caley. 

 By William Withering, Esq. L.L.D. F.L.S. 



Sir, 

 Though the interesting article in your Obituary (Vol. II. 

 p. 310.), respecting Mr. George Caley, was obviously contri- 

 buted by a writer well acquainted with the sterling integrity 

 and extraordinary zeal of that almost self-taught naturalist, 



