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Minutes of the Acade?m/, 
We have also lost seven Ordinary Members, viz. : — 
1. William Barker, M. D., elected January 25, 1836. 
2. Simon Foot, Esq., elected April 28, 1828. 
3. Eight Hon. Colonel French, elected January 13, 1868. 
4. Eichard H. Frith, C. E., elected April 14, 1873. 
5. William L. Ogilby, M. A., elected February 12, 1849. 
6. Eight Hon. David E. Pigot, Chief Baron of the Court of Ex- 
chequer., elected February 10, 1845, 
7. Eobert W. Smith, M. D., elected April 10, 1837. 
In this list occur the names of three men of science, who ought not 
to be passed over without fuller notice in a Eeport like the present. 
Dr. William Barkee was the only son of Francis Barker, M. D., 
Professor of Chemistry in the University of Dublin. After a College 
course of some distinction, he graduated in the year 1832, and obtained 
the degree of M. B. in 1835, and that of M. D. in 1842. He was for 
many years assistant to his father in the Laboratory of Trinity College, 
and afterwards studied under Professor Eose of Berlin. In the course 
of this training he acquired that aptitude for experimental illustrations 
for which he was afterwards noted. In 1848 he was appointed Pro- 
fessor of Natural Philosophy to the Eoj^al Dublin Society, from which 
he was transferred to the College of Science; and in 1850 he was 
elected to the chair of Chemistry in the Eoyal College of Surgeons. The 
last two posts he held to the advantage of those institutions, until his 
death. He edited some chemical works, among which was Parke's 
Chemical Catechism," a book of some repute thirty years ago. 
The name of William L. Ogilby will always be associated with the 
early history of the Zoological Society of London, The well-known 
gardens in Eegent's Park were opened in 1827, and at the Society's 
Museum meetings were held, at which lectures were given in various 
branches of Zoology. In 1829 the Society received its charter, and in 
the following year reports of its scientific proceedings began to be pub- 
lished. Into its labours Ogilby threw himself with ardour. His attention 
had been very early devoted to Zoological Science, and, while a student 
at Cambridge, he had availed himself of every opportunity of prosecuting 
his favourite researches. Before the days of the Zoological Society, 
students of the Mammalia were chiefly indebted to Wombwell's and 
other menageries for the objects of their study ; and the earliest of 
Ogilby's writings was a description of a new species of Paradoxurus, 
which he saw, for the first time, in March, 1827, with Mr, Wombwell. 
Among the many distinguished men who were members of the Zoologi- 
cal Society in its early years he held a conspicuous place, and in 1839 he 
became secretary of the Societ}^ Agassiz, in his Bibliographia Zoolo- 
gica, gives a list of upwards of thirty-eight memoirs contributed by him 
to the Society at this period, among the most important of which may 
be mentioned ''A Monograph of the Hollow-horned Euminants," pub- 
lished in the transactions of the Society, and his descriptions of new 
species of Marsupials. A complete list of his writings will be found 
