MEMOIR OP DE. BOWEEBANK. XVll 



general instructions were " Only remove as much of 

 the watery matter as will prevent the Sponges from 

 rotting on the voyage; but do not send me clean 

 specimens as if intended for the bath." 



The accumulations of years of collecting, numbering 

 many hundreds of specimens, are now preserved in 

 the British Museum. Forty-five memoirs from his 

 pen, of which the majority refer to Sponges, are 

 recorded in the " Catalogue of Scientific Papers," 

 compiled by the Royal Society. 



Dr. Bowerbank, whilst working to complete his 

 fourth volume on the Sponges, was seized with a 

 sudden illness, which within a month terminated 

 fatally. He died at St. Leonards on the 8th March, 

 1877, in the eightieth year of his age, and lies buried 

 in the Churchyard of Hollington, not far from Hastings, 

 in Sussex. 



