112 Obituary. 
the entrance charge, and have, a right to admission to the lectures and privileges 
of the museum. The meetings of the society are held on the first Monday of 
each month at seven in evening. The first annual report is published, Hudson 
Scot Office, Carlisle, 1836, pp. 23. 
OBITUARY. 
" The Rev. JOHN TOZER, late Curate of St Petrock, Exeter ; where he was 
much respected. His body was found drowned near Shrewsbury, and not recog- 
nized by any one in the neighbourhood ; but, the circumstance being made known 
by a newspaper sent accidentally to Teignmouth, the description caused strong 
suspicion of its referring to Mr T. ; and a relation went off immediately, who ex- 
amined many articles of his dress, and collected so much information as to leave 
not the slightest doubt of his identity. The body, it is supposed, had lain se- 
veral weeks in the water." Gent. Mag. April 1836, p. 438 Mr Tozer, whose 
melancholy fate is here recorded, was well known to British botanists, for he is 
repeatedly quoted in the British Flora of Hooker, and, in the Flora Devoniensis, 
as an authority for habitats of some of our rarest plants. He was the discoverer 
of the first British station of Erica ciliaris, and of the Bryum Tozeri, so beau- 
tifully figured in the Scottish Cryptogamic Flora of Dr Greville, vol. v. pi. 285. 
" I rejoice," says Dr Greville, " in being able to bestow upon it the name of my 
indefatigable friend, who is also known to have distinguished himself by find- 
ing Schistostega pennata, after it had apparently disappeared for many years." 
January 1. 1836. " At Shropham villa, Norfolk, aged 33, (an evident misprint, 
he was in his 58th year. See Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 164.) The Rev. George 
Reading Leathes, Rector of Limpenhoe with Southwood, and of Wickhampsted, 
Norfolk. He was of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B. A. 1801, 
M. A. 1813, was presented to both his livings in 1803 and in 1804, by J. F. 
Leathes, Esq. He was attacked on Christmas day by a fit of apoplexy, whilst in 
the reading desk, and lingered for one week, until the following Friday. He 
was well known as a naturalist, a horticulturist, and a general patron of the fine 
arts." Gent. Mag. April 1836, p. 439. His name is commemorated in the 
Ovula Leathsii of Sowerby, of which he was the discoverer. 
The Baron de Ferussac. We are sorry to announce the death of the inde- 
fatigable Baron de Ferussac, the founder and editor of the Bulletin Universel. 
He had long suffered from an affection of the lungs, but did not quit his labours 
till just before his death. Among other excellent works, his natural history of 
the Mollusca was one of the first, and is illustrated by the best plates published 
in France; his monograph of the Cephalopoda is equally beautiful, but neither of 
these undertakings is finished. He was always anxious to forward the views of 
those connected with science, and was particularly obliging to foreigners. He 
was in his fifty-second year Athenaum, 2d April 1836. ( In an early number we 
shall give an account of the works of this excellent molluscologist.) 
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