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XLII. — Contributions towards a Knowledge of the Flora of the 

 Seychelles Islands. By Professor E. Perceval "Wright, M D 

 F.L. S. 



[Read December 14, 1868.] 



In this, after giving a slight sketch of the geographical position and 

 geological structure of the Scychelle group of islands, Dr. Wright alluded 

 to the different zones of vegetation to be met with on their mountain 

 sides, and then proceeded to describe in detail Wormia ferruginea (Bail.), 

 which was figured ; and as new species, Gardenia annce and Nepenthes 

 Wardii; both species are figured ; and the latter is of very great inte- 

 rest, as the only Pitcher plant belonging to the genus Nepenthes as yet 

 met with out of the Asiatic continent and islands. 



XLIII. — Biographical Notice of the late George V. Du Noyer, 

 M. E. I. A. By M. Gages. 



[Read January 11, 1869.] 



Death has just taken from amongst us a colleague commendable by 

 his many qualities of mind and heart — an exact geologist, a learned and 

 indefatigable antiquary — George Victor Du Noyer. 



He was born in Dublin in 1817. Of a family originally from Pro- 

 vence, where it occupied an honourable position, the union of southern 

 and Irish blood in his veins made of him a type of charming origi- 

 nality. 



He was educated at the well-known seminary of the late Mr. Jones, 

 in Great Denmark- street, and at an early age became a pupil of George 

 Petrie, from whom he acquired that exquisite taste for Art and deep- 

 felt love for everything relating to the archaeology of Ireland which 

 distinguished him. 



When scarcely yet twenty years of age, he owed to the friendship 

 of his master — that large-hearted and generous man — the good fortune 

 of being associated as draughtsman in the labours of the Ordnance 

 Survey of Ireland. 



Petrie infused into him a love for the ancient art of Ireland, of its 

 Christian monuments. The several men eminent in various branches 

 of Natural Science then associated in that great national work, the 

 Ordnance Survey, inspired him with a taste for the study of nature. 

 This double association of his youth made Du Noyer an eminently 

 original artist. 



Attached afterwards to the Geological branch of the Survey, then 

 directed by a distinguished man, the late General Portlock, who remained 

 ever afterwards his protector and his friend, he designed with great 

 ability the fossils and illustrative views which adorn the learned Re- 

 port on the Geology of the Counties of Londonderry, Tyrone, and Fer- 

 managh. 



