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accused so little of display. He is also punctual, despite the long ride from 
Turnham Green. He is constantly in his lecture-room at University College, 
both in Winter and Summer courses, at his appointed time. On these occasions 
he forms a remarkable contrast to the pupils by whom he is surrounded. He is 
a fresh, ruddy, hale-looking man, and after his morning’s ride, in the midst of 
large bundles of fresh-plucked plants, presents an appearance entirely different 
from that of the “ pale students,” who have generally been but a few minutes 
before roused from their too scanty slumbers. In his class-room he is kind and 
attentive to his pupils; and numbers can still testify that, though they have long 
since been deprived of his instructions there, they continue to experience the 
same treatment. 
Were we writing with the cognizance of Dr. Lindley, we should have liked to 
have finished our imperfect sketch of his labours as a man of science by following 
him into the bosom of private life, where we should find £hat, however great 
may have been his public efforts, he has had time to cherish those pure and 
elevated affections which always shed a double lustre on the acquirements of 
intellect, and the endowments of genius. 
Dr. Lindley is married, and has several children. He resides at Turnham 
Green, within a short walk of the gardens of the Horticultural Society. 
The family to which Dr. Lindley belongs is a branch of the Lindleys of 
Jo wet House, in Yorkshire, who were trustees of the Earl of Essex, in the reign 
of Queen Elizabeth. 
PROCEELJJNGS OF NATURAL-HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
April 1.—The Lev. F. W. Hope, F.R.S., Pres., in the chair.—Mr. Raddon, of 
Bristol, exhibited several specimens of African Copal, containing a great variety 
of insects peculiar to this singular excretion. He also mentioned a new plan 
which he had adopted for catching Moths by daylight in the Sandy districts of 
Devonshire, which was merely by stirring up the hillocks found at the roots of 
Grass, when they issued forth in considerable numbers. Mr. Raddon next 
exhibited some cones of the common Spruce Fir, which when opened were found 
to contain small larvse of an insect from Sierra-Leone, amongst which was 
Tenebrio digitans , a rare and large Beetle, hitherto supposed to be confined to 
India and New-South-Wales, and which was now proved to belong to an African 
