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oats : and many of those whom I am now addressing may remem- 

 ber the extensive and interesting collection of Spanish Cerealia cul- 

 tivated by Professor Lagasca in the garden belonging to the Society 

 of Apothecaries at Chelsea. The publication of a ' Ceres and Flora 

 Hispanica ' had long been a favourite object with him, but which he 

 did not live to accomplish. He departed this life in the 58th year 

 of his age, on the 23rd of June last, at the palace of his early friend 

 and school associate, the present Bishop of Barcelona, who hearing 

 of his infirm state of health, had invited him to partake of his 

 hospitality and kindness, in the hope that the milder air of Cata- 

 lonia might be the means of restoring him. His remains were ho- 

 noured with a public funeral, and an oration was pronounced over 

 him by his friend Don Augustin Yanez, Professor of Natural History 

 at Barcelona. 



It was in Systematic Botany that Professor Lagasca had more 

 particularly distinguished himself, and he has added greatly to our 

 knowledge of various families of plants, such as Umbelliferce, Dip- 

 sacece and Composited, of one of the groups of which, the Labiatiflorce, 

 he may be regarded as the founder. 



James Dottin May cock, M.D. — Dr. Maycock is deserving of no- 

 tice as the author of a Flora of Barbadoes, in which island he had 

 long resided. The work forms a catalogue of the indigenous as well 

 as cultivated plants of that island, and contains besides a number 

 of interesting notices on their ceconomical uses. The author has fully 

 established the identity of the species which affords the Barbadoes 

 aloes, with the Aloe vulgaris, accurately figured in the ' Flora Graeca.' 



William Mills, Esq. 



Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart., F.R.S. — A distinguished cultivator of 

 the science of Mineralogy, and who possessed one of the most ex- 

 tensive and valuable collections in that department of Natural His- 

 tory ever formed in this country. 



James Sharpe, Esq. 



The Rev. Thomas, Lord Walsingham. 



Amongst the Foreign Members occur — 



John Frederick Blumenbach, M.D., Professor of Medicine in the 

 University of Gottingen, Foreign Member of the Royal Society of 

 London, and Associate of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the 

 French Institute, was pre-eminently distinguished by his important 

 researches in General Anatomy and Physiology, which he continued 

 to prosecute during a long life ardently devoted to the advancement of 

 science. He was equally remarkable for the extent and variety of his 

 knowledge and the philosophical sagacity of his views. Professor 

 Blumenbach died on the 22nd of January last, at the advanced age 

 of 88. 



Joseph Francis, Baron Jacquin, Professor of Botany and Che- 

 mistry, and Director of the Imperial Gardens at Schcenbrunn, near 

 Vienna, to which appointments he succeeded on the resignation of 

 his father, the celebrated traveller and botanist. He was author 

 of Ecloga Plantarum, a folio work, containing descriptions and co- 

 loured figures of the new and rare plants which flowered in the 

 gardens under his care, and also of a valuable work on birds. 



