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rality, and by his constant readiness to promote, by pecuniary as- 

 sistance or by friendly advice, the advancement of all deserving 

 applicants. 



Up to the year 1851, Mr. Borrer had enjoyed the full vigour of 

 an excellent constitution ; but in that year he had a violent attack 

 of illness, and though he sufficiently rallied even to enjoy several 

 botanical excursions, he was from that time liable to frequent attacks 

 of extreme debility. Yet he continued to take as much interest as 

 ever in his garden and botanical collections, and was still, as through 

 life, remarkable for his extreme accuracy and simplicity of style, 

 whether in telling an anecdote or in describing a plant. 



At Christmas 1861, he attended the annual distribution of prizes 

 at the Henfield National School, in returning from which he took 

 a severe cold, resulting in pleurisy, from the effects of which he died, 

 peacefully and calmly as he had lived, on the 10th of January, 

 1862, in the 81st year of his age, deeply and deservedly lamented 

 by his own numerous family, and by all who knew him. 



George Charlwood, Esq., was formerly an eminent and much 

 respected seedsman in Covent Garden. He was elected into the 

 Linnean Society on the 16th of March, 1824, and died August 26, 

 1861, at Feltham, where he had long resided, aged 77. 



Albert John Hambrough, Esq., who died at 14 Prince's Terrace, 

 Hyde Park, on the 6th June, of 1861, in his 41st year, had been but 

 a few years a Fellow of this Society, having been elected only in 

 February 1856. His usual residence was Steephill Castle, in the 

 Isle of Wight, and he was well known as a zealous cultivator of the 

 island flora. 



The Rev. Frederick W. Hope, D.C.L., F.R.S., Sfc, died on the 

 15th of April, 1862, at his house, 37 Upper Seymour Street, Portman 

 Square. He was born on the 3rd of January, 1797, in tho same 

 house, being the second son of John Thomas Hope, Esq. 



Entering Christchurch, Oxford, he graduated B.A. in 1820, and 

 took his M.A. degree in 1823, and was ordained to the curacy of the 

 family living of Frodesley, Shropshire, but his health did not long 

 permit him to perform the duties of his profession. 



During hifl residence at Oxford, he devoted his leisure hours to 

 the study of zoology, and especially of entomology, with great zeal. 

 To this study he was much incited by tho precepts and example of 

 Dr. Kidd, who wan at that time Regius Professor of Medicine, and 

 Whose leesoni OH zoological subjects strongly fostered the growing 

 taste of the young student, who, throughout his future career, looked 

 up to bin teacher with kind feelings of regard, which wen- testified 



