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of science of all nations, and thus kept himself well acquainted with 

 the progress of knowledge throughout the world. 



In natural history he devoted most attention to conchology and 

 ornithology, in both of which departments his Museum was very 

 rich, including, in particular, an almost complete collection of the 

 birds of Portugal, nearly all procured and classified by himself ; and in 

 1861 he published a " List of about 200 Species of Portuguese Birds," 

 in the ' Gazeta Medica de Lisboa.' But, not content with the limits 

 of his own dominions, he aimed at the collection of typical specimens 

 of all exotic genera of birds and shells ; and his Museum, in con- 

 sequence, in late years was enriched with most of the typical forms 

 of birds, procured, regardless of cost or trouble, from all parts, and 

 illustrated by all the more valuable works relating to ornithology. 



But, besides these efforts in the cause of science, his brief reign 

 will long be remembered from the constant endeavours he manifested 

 to improve in all ways the well-being and intellectual improvement 

 of his people, and prove himself in every respect worthy of the eminent 

 post to which Providence had called him. 



Edward Barnard, Esq., F.R.H.S., was born on the 14th of March, 

 1786, and became a Fellow of the Linnean Society on the 17th of 

 February, 1818. He was educated at Eton, which school he left in 

 1804, when he entered the Colonial Office, an employment in which 

 he continued during the remainder of his life. In 1825 he was 

 appointed by Lord Liverpool to the office of Agent-General for the 

 Crown Colonies. 



Mr. Barnard was devoted principally to horticultural pursuits, 

 and was for many years a Fellow and Member of Council of the 

 Horticultural Society, at whose Meetings* he contributed several 

 communications or notices with reference to the cultivation of 

 certain flowers. The singular plant, Ammobium alatum, R. Br., is 

 stated to have been raised, in 1822, from seeds transmitted from 

 New South Wales, and presented to the Society by Mr. Barnard. 

 He was also one of the original Fellows of the Zoological Society, 

 and gave much valuable assistance in the laying out of the gardens 

 both of that Society in the Regent's Park and of the Horticultural 

 Society at Chiswick. 



He died suddenly of an apoplectic attack on the 13th of December, 

 1861. 



William Borrer, Esq., was born at Henfield, in the county of 

 Sussex, on the 13th of June, 1781, and was the eldest son of 



* They are not published, but very briefly noticed, in the ' Transactions.' 



