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on six lectures on Astronomy delivered at the Museum at Ipswich. 
' His great scientific reputation was acknowledged by several foreign 
Governments and many honorary titles were conferred upon him. 
He was a Chevalier of the Order Pour le Mérite of Prussia, of 
the Legion of Honour of France, of the Polar Star of Sweden, of 
the Danneborg of Russia, of the Rose of Brazil &., and in 1871 
he was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen at Osborne. But 
though Sir George was so much honoured, he was really a man of 
essentially simple nature and habits, and cared little for the 
social advantages of his position. 
Although itis unusual for your President to refer in the annual 
_ address to the death of anyone not a member, I am sure that in . 
departing in this instance from that rule I shall have the con- 
currence of every member present, when I express on behalf of 
our Council and the members generally profound regret at the 
great loss which science has sustained by the death on 7th Decem- 
ber last of Sir Wint1am Macweay, who for so many years held 
the foremost position in this community in the ‘promotion of 
science. He was the father of the Linnean Society, and was 
_ fitly spoken of by a member of that body “as at once its head 
and its heart.” For many years he provided the Linnean Society 
with a hired home, with the money for current expenses, and 
special investigations, and he finally built for it its present com. 
modious home, which he presented to the Society in October 
1885 as a free gift. Finally he gave the Society £6,000 as a 
fund, the interest of which should cover current expenses, and 
he placed a further sum of £35,000 in the hands of the Linnean 
Society as trustees, who are to use the interest of this sum for 
the establishment of four “ Linnean Fellowships,” each of the 
annual value of £400, tenable only for one year, but renewable 
at the will of the Council. At infinite pains and great cost he 
collected a Natural History Museum, valued at £25,000, this 
together with a sum of £6,000 to provide a salary for the curator 
he presented to the University, and at his death bequeathed a 
further sum of £12,000 to the University for the purpose of 
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