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Tho President's Address. By A. D. Michael. 
and Botany to the School of Medicine adjoining St. George’s Hospital 
in 1843. He was Secretary of the Kay Society for many years, and in 
1845 was elected F.R.S. In 1850 he was appointed Professor of Natural 
History in New College, London ; in 1851 he received the degree of 
LL.D. from Amherst, U.S.A. In 1853 he became Lecturer on Anatomy 
and Physiology at the Grosvenor Place School of Medicine; in 1858, 
Superintendent of the Food Collection at the South Kensington Museum ; 
in 1862, Examiner in Botany to the Science and Art Department at South 
Kensington. He was elected Coroner for Central Middlesex in 1862. 
Besides contributing to the publications of the learned Societies and 
to scientific periodicals, Dr. Lankester wrote the ‘Natural History of 
Plants yielding Food’ and ‘ Memorials of John Ray, 5 published in 1845. 
He edited the ‘Correspondence of John Ray’ in 1846; published a 
translation of Schleiden’s ‘ Principles of Scientific Botany ’ in 1849 ; be 
translated Kiichenmeister’s ‘ Animal Parasites ’ in 1859. In 1858 he 
published a popular work entitled ‘Halfi hours with the Microscope.’ 
In 1855 he edited Macgillivray’s ‘Natural History of Dee Side and 
Braemar.’ In conjunction first with the late Dr. G. Busk, and afterwards 
with his son, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, he edited the ; Quarterly Journal 
of Microscopical Science’ from 1853 to 1871. 
He died on Friday, October 30th, 1874, at Margate, and was buried 
in the churchyard of Hampstead Cemetery. 
Robert James Farrants, F.R.C.S. 
President 1861-2. 
Beyond the fact that Mr. Farrants was a F.R.C.S. in practice in the 
north-east of London, little appears to have been known about him. He 
died at the age of sixty, some time in 1870. His name is best known 
to microscopists in connection with Farrants’ mixture, which mounting 
medium may still be usefully employed for many objects. 
Charles Brooke, M.A., F.R.S. 
President 1863-4, 1873-4. 
Charles Brooke, who joined the Society in 1851, and was elected as 
the thirteenth President, was born on the 30th June, 1804. He was 
the son of the well-known mineralogist, Mr. H. G. Brooke. His early 
education was carried on at Chiswick ; after this he studied at Rugby; 
proceeding from thence to Cambridge, where he took honours as a 
wrangler. During the intervals of his University training he was a 
student at the Windmill Street School of Medicine. He completed his 
professional training at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. He lectured for 
one or two sessions on surgery at Dermott’s School, and afterwards held 
positions on the surgical staff of the Metropolitan Free and Westminster 
Hospitals. At the latter institution he continued to lecture till a short 
time before his death. In 1884 the Royal College of Surgeons conferred 
an Honorary Fellowship on him ; in 1847 he was elected Fellow of the 
Royal Society. He was President of the Meteorological Society ; he 
.also served on the management of the Royal Institution, and was con- 
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