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studies, passing away on the 21st November, 18S6, in the 81st year 

 of his age. Until disabled by age and blindness, his tall form and 

 cheerful voice were among the most familiar to those who frequented 

 the Society's apartments ; and amid the older Fellows of this 

 Society, a large circle of friends look back with sadness when they 

 remember th£ hearty joviality, the warm friendship, and the un- 

 bounded hospitality which distinguished this " fine old English 

 gentleman." 



Sir Chaeles James Fox Btjxbury, Bart., was the son of Sir Henry 

 Bunbury (one of the earliest members of our Society, who contri- 

 buted a paper to the ' Transactions ' in 1822) by his first wife, who 

 was a niece of Charles James Fox. Charles Bunbury, who was 

 born at Messina in 1809, appears to have early imbibed a taste for 

 botanical studies, and after leaving Trinity College, Cambridge, he 

 at the end of 1837 accompauied his friend Sir George Xapier to the 

 Cape of Good Hope, making during his year's residence in that 

 colony a number of excursions into the interior in search of rare 

 plants. The results of these researches were published by Sir 

 William Hooker, in the ' London Journal of Botany ;' and in 1848 

 there appeared the ' Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good 

 Hopo ' by Mr. Bunbury, with an Appendix by his friend Sir John 

 Herschel. After his return to England, Mr. Bunbury married, 

 in 1844, Frances, the second daughter of Mr. Leonard Horner, and 

 the sister of Lady Lyell. He still continued to devote much time 

 to botanical pursuits, and took up very eagerly the study of fossil 

 plants. At one time he appears to have contemplated cither the 

 bringing out of a new edition of Lindley and Hutton's well-known 

 treatise, or the preparation of a fresh work on something like the 

 same lines. Although this design was never carried out, a num- 

 ber of valuable papers on fossil plants, contributed by Mr. Bunbury 

 to our own and other Journals, serve to show what qualifications he 

 possessed for such a task. As the describer of plants collected by 

 Lyell during his two visits to the United States, and as the constant 

 adviser of the author of ' The Principles of Geology ' upon botanical 

 questions, Sir Charles Bunbury will perhaps be best remembered by 

 geologists in the future. He accompanied Lyell to Madeira in 1853 

 and studied the botany of the island while his friend was occupied 

 with the geology. He at one time took an active part in the 

 management of the affairs of this Society, of which he was elected a 

 Fellow in 1&37; between 1846 and 1862 he frequently occupied a 

 seat at the Council table, and from 1847 to 1853 was our Foreign 



