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School and University of Edinburgh. He inherited his father’s taste 
for minerals, and while still a youth followed out the study in 
extended travels in company with Professor Haidinger, who intro- 
duced him to the acquaintance and to the cabinets of all the chief 
foreign mineralogists' — among others, Berzelius and Mitscherlich. 
Mr Allan passed advocate in 1 829, hut never practised, and was 
admitted a Fellow of this Society in 1832. He was also a member 
of the G-eological Society of London. 
Mr Allan published in 1834 a Manual of Mineralogy, the classi- 
fication founded on the external character or natural historical 
arrangement. 
In 1837 he edited a fourth edition of “ Phillips’ Mineralogy,” 
in which he added notices of 150 new minerals. 
On his return from an excursion to the volcanic district of Italy 
and Sicily, Mr Allan presented to this Society a set of specimens 
of volcanic rocks of the Lipari Isles, with a descriptive notice, 
an abstract of which is in our Transactions, of date 16th Jan> 
uary 1831, 
He communicated an account of a visit to the G-eysers and Hecla 
to the British Association at Glasgow, in 1855. 
Mr Allan died in consequence of a fall in his garden. 
Beriah Boteield was of a Shropshire family, in which county 
his grandfather, Thomas Botfield, made his large fortune as a 
manager and lessee of the Dawlay Collieries. Thomas’s third son 
inherited Horton Hall, near Daventry, in Horthamptonshire, and 
lived the life of an English sporting squire. He married Charlotte, 
daughter of William Withering, M.D., E.E.S., the author of “ The 
Botanical Arrangement of British Plants.” The only child of that 
marriage was Beriah, the subject of the present notice, who, in 
addition to his father’s property, inherited the estates of both his 
uncles, and had become before his death a man of very large fortune. 
Beriah was born 5th March 1807, and succeeded his father in ] 813. 
He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, where he took 
his Bachelor’s degree in 3 828. 
After leaving Oxford he made a tour in the Highlands of Scot- 
land, a journal of which he printed for private circulation, — printed 
at Norton Hall, 1830, 12mo. 
