of Edinburgh, Session 1880-81. 
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Observatory, Geneva; Johannes Iapetus Smith Steenstrup, Pro- 
fessor of Zoology at Copenhagen, were balloted for, and declared 
duly elected Foreign Honorary Fellows of the Society. 
The Hon. Justice Grove, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., and the Rev. 
George Salmon, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D., Regius Professor of Divinity, 
Trinity College, Dublin, were balloted for, and declared duly elected 
British Honorary Fellows of the Society. 
Monday , ^Jth February 1881. 
Professor DOUGLAS MACLAGAN, Vice-President. 
in the Chair. 
The Chairman read Obituary Notices of Mr Thomas Key, 
Dr William Lassell, Mr Maurice Lothian, Mr Mungo Ponton, 
Mr Thomas Knox, The Hon. Lord Ormidale, Professor Sharpey 
— deceased Fellows of the Society. 
OBITUARY NOTICES. 
Thomas Key. By J. Sanderson, Deputy Inspector-General 
of Hospitals. 
Mr Thomas Key, Licentiate of the College of Surgeons of 
Edinburgh, was a son of Dr Patrick Key, Physician in Forfar. 
He was born in that town in 1803, and received his early education 
there. He attended the literary classes at the St Andrews 
University before coming to the University of Edinburgh to study 
medicine. At the age of nineteen he received his diploma of Surgeon 
from the College of Surgeons of that city. In the following year 
he received the appointment of assistant-surgeon in the Madras 
Medical Service of the Honourable the East India Company. 
Very shortly after his arrival in India, he was appointed to the 
Hydrabad Contingent Forces in the Deccan, in which he served six- 
teen years. During this time he held the office of medical store- 
keeper, and was also superintendent of the Medical School at 
Bolarum, which position he held till 1842. In that year he was 
compelled, from the state of his health, to resign his office and return 
to Europe. 
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