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the entrance charge, and have a right to admission to the lectures and privileges 

 of the museum. The meetings of the society are held on the first Monday of 

 each month at seven in evening. The first annual report is published, Hudson 

 Scot Office, Carlisle, 1836, pp. 23. 



OBITUARY. 



" The Rev. John Tozer, late Curate of St Petrock, Exeter ; where he was 

 much respected. His body was found drowned near Shrewsbury, and not recog- 

 nized by any one in the neighbourhood ; but, the circumstance being made known 

 by a newspaper sent accidentally to Teignmouth, the description caused strong 

 suspicion of its referring to Mr T. ; and a relation went off immediately, who ex- 

 amined many articles of his dress, and collected so much information as to leave 

 not the slightest doubt of his identity. The body, it is supposed, had lain se- 

 veral weeks in the water." Gent. Mag. April 1836, p. 438 Mr Tozer, whose 



melancholy fate is here recorded, was well known to British botanists, for he is 

 repeatedly quoted in the British Flora of Hooker, and, in the Flora Devoniensis, 

 as an authority for habitats of some of our rarest plants. He was the discoverer 

 of the first British station of Erica ciliaris, and of the Bryum Tozeri, so beau- 

 tifully figured in the Scottish Cryptogamic Flora of Dr Greville, vol. v. pi. 285. 

 " I rejoice," says Dr Greville, " in being able to bestow upon it the name of my 

 indefatigable friend, who is also known to have distinguished himself by find- 

 ing Schistostega pennata, after it had apparently disappeared for many years." 



January 1. 1836. " At Shropham villa, Norfolk, aged 33, (an evident misprint, 

 he was in his 58th year. See Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 164.) The Rev. George 

 Reading Leathes, Rector of Limpenhoe with Southwood, and of Wickhampsted, 

 Norfolk. He was of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B. A. 1801, 

 M. A. 1813, was presented to both his livings in 1803 and in 1804, by J. F. 

 Leathes, Esq. He was attacked on Christmas day by a fit of apoplexy, whilst in 

 the reading desk, and lingered for one week, until the following Friday. He 

 was well known as a naturalist, a horticulturist, and a general patron of the fine 

 arts." Gent. Mag. April 1836, p. 439. His name is commemorated in the 

 Ovula Leathsii of Sowerby, of which he was the discoverer. 



The Baron de Ferussac We are sorry to announce the death of the inde- 

 fatigable Baron de Ferussac, the founder and editor of the Bulletin Universel. 

 He had long suffered from an affection of the lungs, but did not quit his labours 

 till just before his death. Among other excellent works, his natural history of 

 the Mollusca was one of the first, and is illustrated by the best plates published 

 in France; his monograph of the Cephalopoda is equally beautiful, but neither of 

 these undertakings is finished. He was always anxious to forward the views of 

 those connected with science, and was particularly obliging to foreigners. He 



was in his fifty-second year Athenceum, 2d April 1 836. ( In an early number we 



shall give an account of the works of this excellent molluscologist. ) 



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