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became, as you well know, one of the leading entomologists of the 

 day. This is not the place to enumerate his entomological memoirs. 

 He wrote a great number, many of which are to be found in the 

 Linnsean Transactions and the Zoological Journal. I need scarcely 

 remind you that the * Introduction to Entomology,' written in con- 

 junction with his friend Mr. Spence, and his Bridgewater Treatise, 

 * On the History, Habits and Instincts of Animals,' rendered him 

 one of the most popular writers of the time on such subjects. He 

 was not professedly a geologist, but always took a great interest in 

 the science, and, in the course of his scientific rambles, made a point 

 of collecting geological specimens of interest. He thus formed a large 

 geological collection, and took great pleasure in exhibiting it to his 

 friends. 



Few men have ever gained the respect and aifection of a large circle 

 both of private and scientific friends, to so great an extent as Mr. 

 Kirby. His life was spent in the simple and earnest search of know- 

 ledge among God's works, and the equally simple and earnest teaching 

 of His word to those among whom he dwelt as their pastor for the 

 long period of sixty-eight years. 



Mr. Richard Cowling Taylor, the third son of Mr. Samuel 

 Taylor, was born at Banham, in the county of Norfolk, January 18, 

 1789. He was cousin to Mr. Richard, Mr. John, and Mr. Philip 

 Taylor, men so well known and so highly respected among us. He 

 appears to have prepared himself early in life for the profession of a 

 mining engineer, in which he afterwards rose to great eminence in 

 America. He had the advantage for some time of being associated 

 in business with Mr. William Smith, to whom the early geology of 

 this country was so much indebted, and directed his attention assidu^ 

 ously to economic geology as a branch of his profession. The first 

 work, however, by which he became known to the public, was one 

 on the monastic remains of Norfolk, the * Index Monasticus in the 

 ancient kingdom of East Anglia,' which was followed by another 

 work on antiquities, the * General Index to Dugdale's Monasticon 

 Anglicanum.' He was afterwards engaged in the Ordnance Survey 

 of this country, but, about the year 1830, he was induced to go over 

 to America, where he remained until his death, in the practice of his 

 profession, in which his extensive knowledge, good judgement, and 

 honourable character procured for him well-merited distinction. 



In 1823 Mr. Taylor published a paper "On the Crag Strata of 

 Bramerton, near Norwich;" and in the same year another "On the 

 Alluvial Strata, and on the Chalk of Norfolk and Suffolk, and on the 

 Fossils by which they are accompanied." He also published in the 

 Transactions of our Society (1 830), previously to his leaving England, 

 a paper entitled " Notice of two Models and Sections of about eleven 

 square miles, forming a part of the Mineral Basin of South Wales in 

 the vicinity of Pontypool." In x^merica he published, in the Trans- 

 actions of various Scientific Societies, a number of Geological Me- 

 moirs, chiefly on subjects associated more or less with his professional 

 avocations ; but his most important work was the ^ Statistics of Coal,' 



