HENRY FLETCHER HANCE. 11 
of his own études de i ‘édilection. His family — was a bear, below 
the words ‘‘ Ferox ut,’ but his own character would have been 
more fitly symbolized by an outstretched hands with the motto 
‘* Noblesse obli ; 
During par "cou of his life Dr. Hance had received many 
scientific hon In the ‘China Mail’ it is stated that he 
graduated as Philosophie Doctor on cterabes 24th, 1849, but, as 
he was then in China, the degree must have been honor orary. I 
have been elon to ascertain from what university it was derived ; 
nor do the archives of the Linnean Society, which Dr. Murie has 
kindly consulted, give any information as to his Alma Mater. In 
September, 1877, he writes :—‘‘I have been elected a member of 
the Imp. Leopoldino-Carolina Acad. sialcue Curiosorum, 0 ne of 
I really prize very highly, as it is conferred but tingly, and 
Prof. A. Braun, of Berlin, Cfiabeeh of Gittingen, oe Pringsheim 
of Berlin, were my unsolicited proposers I hav o been elected 
a member of the old ‘‘ Essex Institute ’’ of Salem, which you must 
know well Dy ane and of the Soc. Royale de Botanique 
de Belgique He also a fellow of the Lin mops ites: 
L : 
Imperial-Royal Zoological and Botanical Society of Vickie of 
the Imperial- Royal Geological Institute of Austria, and a corres- 
ponding member of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 
is name was ee by Dr. Berthold Seemann in th 
my 
qabuctise from China, in 1882, he eae wrote that he felt he 
into clear relie 
The score of his life had been written by Providence in a minor 
g it. I can onl: 
regret that my record has, of necessity, been far a complete, 
but, inadequate as I pt this tribute to be, I offer it in loving and 
reverent memory of my departed friend. 
Francis Buackwett Forsss. 
ies,! December 13th, 1886. 
