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E.ev. W. Bucklaud, d.d. f.k.s. Prof. Miu. and GeoL, Oxford. 

 J. G. Children, Esq. r.B.s. &c. 

 Rev. J. Goodall, d.d. 



R. E. Grant, m.d. Prof. Zool. Univ., London. 

 G. B. Greenougli, Esq. f.r.s. &c. 

 Major-General Hardwicke, r.R.s. &c. 

 Rev. J. S. Heuslow, f.l.s. Reg. Prof. Bot., Cambridge. 

 A. B. Lambert, Esq. v.p.l s. 

 J. Liudley, Esq. r.B.s. Prof. Bot. Univ., Loudon. 

 J. Morgan, Esq. f.l.s. 

 J. E. Stephens, Esq. f.l.s. 



N. Wallich, m.d. f.b.s. Ed. Car. Bot. Gard., Calcutta. 

 W. Yarrell, Esq. f.l.s. 

 To this list additions are still making daily, 



COMMEMORATION OP RAY. 



The proposal for employing the occasion of the second centenary of the 

 birthday of the illustrious John Ray, which happened on the 29th of Novem- 

 ber last, for the purpose of a public expression of the high estimation in 

 which he is held at this day by the lovers of every branch of natural historj^, 

 was eagerly adopted, and the pubHc dinner at Freemasons' Hall was attended 

 by about 130 of the most distinguished cultivators and patrons of science, 

 including most of the officers of the Royal, Liunaean, Geological, Horticul- 

 tural, and Zoological Societies, the Rev. the Provost of Eton, and several of 

 the professors of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London. 



Davies Gilbert, Esq. M.P., the much-respected President of the Royal 

 Society, took the chair, supported by His Grace the Duke of Somerset, 

 President of the Royal Institution, Lord Astley, and other persons of 

 distinction. 



Li proposing " The Memory of Ray," the chairman said that he felt it to 

 be his duty to express his sLucere acknowledgments to the company for the 

 high honour they had done him in calhng liim to the station he then so 

 unworthily filled. He was aware that so gratifying a compHment liad been 

 paid to him solely on account of his occupying the chair in which the too 

 great kindness of the Eellows of the Royal Society had placed him ; but he 

 valued it the more from that reflection. That society had been greatly 

 lionoured by having such a distinction conferred upon it ; and he spoke the 

 sentiments of every member of the Royal Society when he returned to the 

 company liis sincere thanks on their behalf for tliis distinction. To take an 

 active part on such an occasion must be gratifying to every friend of science 

 and of vii-tue ; but, however much pleasure might be felt in participating in 

 the proceedings of that day, and doing honour to the memory of a truly great 

 man, still far more satisfaction must be derived from a consideration of the 

 good eifects which such a meeting must produce. Men who had done good 

 service to their country, whether in the field of science or elsewhere, were 

 entitled to its grateful remembrance. The display of that remembrance was 

 calculated to incite others to an honorable struggle for similar distinction ; 

 and he was sure that when these proceedings should become known, they 

 would tend greatly to promote the cultivation of the science of natural 

 history. On'the merits of the illustrious man wdiose birth they had met to 

 commemorate, although any remark from him must be unnecessary, he could 

 not avoid saying a few words. The state of science at the period in which 



