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entirely an unprofitable year. Other remarks I might have 

 been tempted to make, but I have trespassed too long on 

 your patience already. It only remains for me to record 

 here my deep indebtedness to our very able and indefatig- 

 able Secretaries, for the invaluable assistance derived from 

 their notes and observations. I have to thank them very 

 much, and you all, gentlemen, for your kind support and 

 indulgence during the time I have been in office, and can 

 only wish its duties had been more adequately fulfilled ; and, 

 in resigning the honor of being your President, I beg to 

 name as my successor for the next year — Dr Charles Stuart, 

 of Chirnside, an old and valued member. 



Obituary Notices. 



Dr William Baird. At 38, Burlington Road, West- 

 bourne Park, London, on the 27th January, 1872, after a 

 protracted and painful illness, William Baird, M.D., F.R.S. 

 (of the British Museum), aged 69 years (See Memoir by 

 Dr Douglas). Dr Baird's name is commemorated in Bairdia, 

 a subgenus of Cy there, formed by McCoy on fossil Cytheridce ; 

 and in Lerneomena Bairdii, a parasitic Crustacean of Salter 

 in " Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.," 2nd ser. vi., p. 86. Plate 

 vii. B. 



Rev. Thomas Knight. The Rev. Thomas Knight, the 

 venerable and much beloved rector of Ford, departed this life 

 on Good Friday, 29th March, 1872, after only a few weeks' 

 illness, at Lowlynn, the residence of his eldest son, Henry 

 Gregson, Esq., in the 77th year of his age, and the 53rd of 

 his incumbency as rector of the parish of Ford. Mr Knight 

 was a graduate of St. Peter's College; Cambridge, where he 

 took the degree of B.A., in 1817. He was ordained deacon 

 in 1818, and priest in 1819 ; and was appointed to the rectory 

 of Ford in the latter year. On his attaining the fiftieth year 

 of his rectorate, his jubilee was celebrated at Ford by unusual 

 demonstrations of rejoicings, and a subscription was raised 

 by over six hundred of his parishioners and friends, to present 

 him with a memorial of their affectionate regard. At his 

 funeral all the neighbouring clergy and gentry, with the 

 parishioners and many others, assembled to do honour to the 



