DAVIS: HUGH EDWIN STRICKLAND, T.R.S., ETC. 147 
natural system in zoology and botany, and after the meeting he paid 
a visit to Jardine Hall, the residence of Sir William Jardine, where 
he first met with the lady who was afterwards to be his wife. Sir 
William Jardine's large collection of birds greatly interested him, and 
various plans were formed for the future advancement of that brand i 
of natural history. He also, at the meeting at Glasgow, read a paper 
on the vitality of seeds, in which the result of considerable investiga- 
tion showed that the reported growth of wheat or other cereals obtained 
from Egyptian tombs must have been mythical. The reform of the 
nomenclature of zoology, as well as its classification, was a subject to 
which Strickland devoted a great deal of attention. The confusion 
and inconvenience involved by some systems recently invented were 
great drawbacks to the systematic progression of natural science, and 
Strickland, after carefully devising a plan, submitted it to many of 
the most learned authorities in this country and on the Continent. 
He received the approval of Prof. Owen, Mr. Darwin, and others in this 
country, and had a long correspondence with M. Agassiz at Neuchatel, 
and the Prince of Canino at Florence. Previous to the meeting of 
the British Association in 1842, at Manchester, the Council resolved 
that a Committee consisting of Mr. C. Darwin, Prof. Henslow, the Rev. 
L. Jennings, W". Ogilvy, Mr. J. Phillips, Dr. Richardson, Mr. H. E. 
Strickland (Reporter), Mr. J. (3. W^estwood, be appointed to consider 
the rules by which the nomenclature of zoology may be established 
on a uniform and permanent basis, the report to be presented to the 
Zoological Section, and submitted to its Committee at the Manchester 
meeting. To this Committee its members added the names of Prof. 
Owen, Messrs. Broderip, Shuckard, Waterhouse and Yarrell. This 
Committee considered Strickland's plan, and after making some 
amendations, a report was agreed to, with the exception of Mr. Ogilv)^, 
and afterwards completed and given to the public. It created a good 
deal of opposition. Some modern inventors of names felt keenly the 
criticism of their views and compositions which the new scheme 
exposed. The opposition, however, did not assume a definite form, 
and after being thoroughly discussed, the report was printed in the 
transactions of the British Association for 1842, and distributed to 
the Academies and Natural History Societies throughout the world. 
