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whole of it, and so often had recourse to the MS. that he almost 

 got it by heart, little thinking then of being the owner, at some 

 future day, of the numerous editions of the popular work, still 

 less of being the editor of one of them, Another point of local 

 interest may be added. Mr Philip Duncan of New College, 

 Oxford, one of two brothers to whom the Royal Institution 

 owes so much, told Mr Blomefield that he once saw White, 

 and was in his company. On asking him what sort of a man 

 he was as to height, figure, and general appearance, he 

 answered, " Oh, much such as you are." Mr Duncan, like 

 Mr Blomefield, spent his later years in Bath, and also, like 

 him, died at the age of ninety-three. 



[The Rev. Leonard Blomefield was elected a Corresponding 

 Member of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, 10th October 

 1883. The name and property of Francis Blomefield, the 

 celebrated Historian of Norfolk, devolved upon Mr Jenyns, 

 in 1871. His father, the Rev. George Leonard Jenyns, 

 succeeded to the Bottisham Hall property in Cambridgeshire, 

 on the decease of Soame Jenyns — his second cousin — well known 

 in the Literature of this Country.] 



Memoir of Sir Walter Elliot of Wolfelee. By Hugh F. C. 

 Cleghorn, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.E., F.L.S., of Strathvithie, 

 St. Andrews. 



[From the Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical 

 Society of Edinburgh, 1888-9.] 



We have to record, with great regret, the death of Sir W. 

 Elliot, a former President of this Society, which ocurred at 

 Wolfelee on 1st March 1887, at the venerable age of 84 years. 

 A notice would have appeared sooner, but considerable time 

 was needed to collect the leading facts of his long and useful 

 life, since any account of his career must tell of eminent 

 public services and scientific work of a varied and remarkable 

 kind. He was one of the few survivors of a group of 

 distinguished Indian administrators and linguists who, in the 



