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REPORT OF THE 
The List of the Society’s Honorary Members has sustained 
a loss of three names during the past year, and amongst these, 
that of one of the most distinguished of British Naturalists, 
the E,ev. Professor Henslow. It is difficult to say in what 
department of Science the late Professor Henslow was most 
highly accomplished ; his Mathematical knowledge was very 
great, and, doubtless had no little influence on his mode of 
working upon the Natural History Sciences, to which the 
peculiar bent of his mind led him to devote himself. His 
earliest appearance (about forty years ago) as a scientific writer 
was on a Geological subject, and he was soon appointed Profes¬ 
sor of Mineralogy at Cambridge ; after holding this office for 
three years, he became Professor of Botany at the same Uni¬ 
versity, and retained this position up to the time of his death. 
In 1837 he was presented by the Crown to the living of 
Hitcham. During the remainder of his life he not only con¬ 
tinued his Botanical Lectures at Cambridge, but devoted him¬ 
self with great energy to the care of his Parish. Much of his 
success appears to have been due to his admirable method of 
communicating in an attractive form to the young and ignorant 
some portion of those vast stores of scientific knowledge to 
which he was continually adding. 
W. H. Fitton, Esq., M. D., a Geologist of great reputation, 
and President of the Geological Society in 1827, had reached 
the advanced age of 82. Dr. Fitton is to be regarded as one of 
the founders of the British School of Geology. His early 
Papers on the Strata between the Chalk and the Oolite in the 
South-East of England and the Isle of Wight, gained him a 
European celebrity, and are still of great value. Numerous 
Memoirs from his pen are to be found in the publications of the 
Geological Society, and in 1852 that Society awarded him the 
Wollaston Medal, in testimony of the eminent services rendered 
by him to Science. 
The Bev. Joseph Hunter had been from early life an earnest 
student of the Antiquities of this his native County, and in his 
History of its Southern portion, has left a work which, by its 
accuracy of research, clearness of arrangement, and comprehen¬ 
siveness of view, has placed him in the first rank of topograph- 
