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Professor ; and it is understood that he has also made provision for 

 the endowment of a keepership for the engravings, as well as for 

 annual additions both to his entomological and art- collections. 



Robert Cliarles Hurst, Esq., M.R.C.S.E., was a medical prac- 

 titioner at Bedford. He was elected into the Society on the 17th 

 January, 1861, and died almost on the anniversary of his election, 

 on the 16th January last, at a comparatively early age. 



John Thomas Quekett, Esq., F.R.S., was the fourth son of the 

 Head Master of the Langport Grammar School, where he received 

 his elementary education. At the early age of sixteen he showed 

 the bent of his mind, and an earnest of his future eminence as a 

 microscopist and zealous cultivator of science, by giving a course of 

 lectures on microscopic subjects, illustrated by diagrams and a mi- 

 croscope of his own construction, the materials of this instrument 

 being furnished by a common roasting-jack, a lady's old-fashioned 

 parasol, and some pieces of brass purchased at a neighbouring marine- 

 store shop, and fashioned by himself. He afterwards repaired to 

 London and was apprenticed to his brother, the late Edwin Quekett, 

 who was at that time Lecturer on Botany at the London Hospital 

 Medical School ; and at this institution he was also entered a student. 

 On the due completion of his studies, he became a Licentiate of the 

 Apothecaries' Company and Member of the Boyal College of Surgeons. 

 The College having just then established a studentship in human and 

 comparative anatomy, Mr. Quekett competed for the appointment, 

 and was unanimously elected ; and he immediately set to work and 

 formed a most extensive and valuable collection of microscopic pre- 

 parations, which was afterwards purchased by the Council of the 

 College, where it forms the chief part of the " Histological Series of 

 the Museum " — a collection consisting of preparations of the elemen- 

 tary tissues, both healthy and morbid, of animals and plants, adapted 

 to illustrate the results and uses of microscopical investigation. 



In 1844, in pursuance of the object the college had in view in ac- 

 quiring this valuable collection, Mr. Quekett was appointed to de- 

 liver an annual course of demonstrations with a view to its exhibition 

 and connected description. A descriptive and illustrated catalogue 

 of the collection, subsequently prepared by Mr. Quekett, under the 

 superintendance of the Museum Committee, and of which the first 

 volume was published in 1850, forms a striking monument of 

 his unwearied industry and great skill as a histologist and micro- 

 scopist. 



At the conclusion of the period for which the studentship was 

 tenable, viz. three years, Mr. Quekett was appointed Assistant Con- 

 Lury. proc. — vol. vi. h 



