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to combine the natural history of the animals with their anatomy, 

 and to found upon the latter a new system of classification. The 

 second volume of this work was not published till 1810-14, and is 

 occupied with the anatomy and physiology of Birds. In 1813 ap- 

 peared the ' Anatomy of Acephalous Monsters;' and in 1816 his 

 great work on the ' Anatomy and Development of the Foetal Human 

 Brain, together with comparative exposition of the structure of the 

 Brain in Animals ' — a classical work, distinguished, like all from his 

 pen, by the care, accuracy, and comprehensiveness of the observations 

 contained in it. Notwithstanding the additions which, since that time 

 our knowledge of the earliest development of the brain has received 

 from embryology, Tiedemann's researches have lost none of their 

 value, and all subsequent inquirers have recognized the accuracy and 

 admired the abundance of .his facts. In 1817 he published a Mono- 

 graph on the * Anatomy and Natural History of the Crocodile,' which 

 was commenced as an introduction to a general anatomy and natu- 

 ral history of the Reptilia, in conjunction with Oppel of Munich 

 and Dr. Liboschitz ; but this design, owing to the death of his coad- 

 jutors, was afterwards abandoned. 



In the list of Associates we have to deplore the loss of 

 James Forbes, who was elected on the 17th January, 1832, and 

 died at the age of 68, on the 6th of July, 1861. He was born at 

 Bridgend, in Perthshire, in May 1773, and commenced life as gardener 

 at Dupplin Castle, in the same county. He was afterwards in the 

 Marquis of Ailsea's service, in the same capacity, at Culzean Castle, in 

 Ayrshire, whence he went to Ireland, where he lived some years with 

 Lord Hartland as steward and gardener. From thence he went to 

 the Botanic Garden, Dublin, under Dr. Mackay ; and from this 

 situation he was appointed head gardener to the Duke of Bedford, 

 who required a good botanist and one capable of forming the exten- 

 sive gardens at Woburn Abbey, at which place he lived tliirty- 

 seven years. 



He was an excellent practical gardener, and no mean botanist ; and 

 it is mainly, I believe, to him that we owe the * Salioetum' and ' Pine- 

 l ii in W'ohurncnse,' works, however, in which he was assisted in some 

 degree b) Mr. Don, formerly Librarian to this Society. The estima- 

 tion in which Mr. Forbcs's labours on this occasion were held by bo- 

 tanists may he judged of by the following extracts from Hooker's 

 ' British Flora/ in which, after speaking of the aid Ik; received on 

 the subject of Willows from Mr. Borrer, the author proceeds to say, 



'• Bui He richest collection of livine willows is unquestionably that 



