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MARBLE WORKS BY PATENT MA- IeaILLCOX and ANDERSON, Managers. 1. Hallam's Introduction to the Literature of the XVth and portic
CHINERY. SCOTTISH (WIDOWS' FUND) LIFE AS- X Vith Centuries.
Tourists in the Pyrenees. . don :
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5. Thourel's History esf Geneva. whirl
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tomen,
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Esher-street, Holywell-street, Alillbank, Westminster. Policies, or of any license subsequently granted by the Court of 10. The Hanoverian Coup d'Etat-Ernest and the Constitution. such ,
SIXTY-NINTH SALE. Directors, are now resident in UPPER or LOWER CANADA, R. and J. E. Taylor, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street; and all 'ln the
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tion shall continue in force for the period of Twelve Calendar THE
.FIFTEENTH
THE FOLLOWING GOODS FOR HOME
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AND LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED.
2 GR/lAT
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FOGS AND DAMP AIR. and the last in August, 1837. The first separate publication of a large field of investigation, comprising much of philosophy and \
ARCLAY'S ASTHMATIC B CANDY has, them, in two volumes, took place in 1832, between which period social economy, is left open to our inquiries : and our purpose is to fee
the present,. four very large impressions of them have been turn what we may here find to the best and most profitable account
for many years, been proved an effectual preservative from the exhausted ; and it is a great satisfaction both to my publisher and •in reference to the improvement and well-being of our fellow-men nut
ill effects of the hogs and Damp Air, which, in
.the\Tinter Season, are so
myself, to find that this has been effected without having in any If our friends think we deserve well for our purpose, we ask their. att.
prevalent in this Climate. Its effects are to expel Wind, to preserve
suffer
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with the most accurate and severe judgment, and a' t•
great public services in situations of the highest trust and re-
sponsibility, we shall not hesitate to pronounce him tom of the
most illustrious of that extraordinary succession of great men
who have adorned the annals of our Indian empire, the death
of so many of whom it has been my misfortune to record in my
recent addresses from this chair.
Dr. John Latham reached the extraordinary age of ninety-
seven years, having enjoyed the full possession of his faculties
and almost unbroken health until within a few days of his
death : lie was the father of the Royal and Antiquarian Socie-
ties, and it is sixty-seven years since his first paper, on a me-
dical subject, washpublished in our Transactions. He was the
author of many papers on antiquarian subjects ; but his fa-
vourite study throughout life was natural history, and partien-
the very important experiinents of Mr. Cavendish, and for larly ornithology. He published, in 1781, his General Synopsis
many other subjects of great scientific interest and value ;
_of Birds, in six volumes quarto, and afterwards two supplemen-
and I feel satisfied that every application for assistance tary volumes. In 1792 he published his Index Ornitholo-
t wards the accomplishment of any important object in gicus, a complete system of ornithology, arranged in classes,
science, will receive from them the most willing attention orders, general andspecies, in two volumes quarto. At the
and support, if it comes before them with the recommen- age of 82, he commenced his General History ,of Birds, a
dation and authority of those persons who are most com- magnificent work in eleven volumes quarto. He was a man of
potent to judge of its usefulness or necessity, and in very systematic habits and most amiable character, the tranquil
such a form as may justify them in appealing to Parlia- course of whose long life was neither disturbed by scientific or
ment for its sanction of the requisite expenditure. I rejoice, professional jealousies, nor embittered by the want of those ena
Gentlemen, in such manifestations of the sympathy of the Joyments which competence and domestic happiness and virtue
Government of this great country for the progress of science, alone can confer.
and I trust that its influence will be felt in the cordial union Dr. Tiarks was born at Jcver, in Oldenburg, and came to
and co-operation of philosophers in planning and in executing England in 1810, when he was appointed Assistant Librarian
those great systems of observations, whether simultaneous or to Sir Joseph Banks, through whose influence he was nomi-
not, which arc still requisite to fill up some of those blank natcd Astronomer to the Commission for the settling the North
spaces which occupy so large a portion in the map of human American Boundary, under the authority of the Treaty of
Hum-
knowledge. Ghent. After his return to England, in 1822, he was corn-
In the course of last year the celebrated Baron de Hum- missioned by the Admiralty, at the request cf the Board of
boldt addressed a letter to me, as President of the Royal So- Longitude, to ascertain, by means of a great number of chro-
ciety, expressing a wish that Magnetical Observator:es, upon nometers, the difference of the longitudes of Falmouth and
a uniform plan, might be established in this country and its Madeira, and subsequently of Falmouth and Dover, the results
colonies, with a view of makin simultaneous observations of which were detailed in a very able paper in our Transac-
with those which are now making or which are in progress
tions for 1824, in which he pointed out and explained the origin
,
to be made, in different parts of the continent of Europe and of an error of nearly four minutes of time in the longitudes of all
of Northern Asia. I felt it to be due to the illustrious the stations of thetTrigonometrical Survey. He was afterwards
author of this communication, to make it generally known to sent on a similar mission to Heligoland and various stations
the Fellows of the Royal Society, and to beg that a Commit- in the North Seas, and on the last occasion he was accom-
tee of the Council might be appointed to consider the best panied :by Sir Humphry Davy, who wished to try the effect
a ode of carrying its recomrreadations into effect. A very of his protectors on the corrosion of the copper sheathing of
elaborate Report was consequently made by the Astronomer ships. In 1825 he was recalled from Germany to resume his
Royal and Mr. Christie in November Nat, enumerating astronomical surveys in America, where he was employed to
many important consequences which might result from
ascertain the position and extent of the north-western boun-
dary of the Lake of the Woods, an operation in the executiou
such' a system of observations, and pointing out a series of
stations where they might most efficiently be made. lam of which both he and the party who assisted him suffered the
happy to inform you, Gentlemen, that measures are in pro-
greatest hardships and privations. He published various re-
gress for the accomplishment of all these objects : a Meg- ports of his surveys, and was necessarily much employed and
netical Observatory, which was long contemplated and ear- consulted in the difficult and embarrassing negotiations which
neatly recommended by the Board Visitors of the Royal have attended, and unhappily still attend, the settlement* of the
,
Observatory, has been established at Greenwich, in a sittute important question of the North American boundaries, ~.Pr.
tion so remote from all other buildings as to be altogether Tiarks died in the 48th year of his age, at his native place, in
free even from the suspicion of external disturbances. The consequence of a fever which attacked a constitution already
corps of Royal Engineers, which has always been distin- shattered and broken by the severe labours- and privations
he ad end red.
He was a
refu mathe of no incon-
guisimed for the zeal and scientific acquirements of many of which
bl siderae h
attainments, a very cal and e maffitician cient practical n-
its members, has spontaneously offered to conduct the re-
tronomcr, and admirably qualified for the very
disobey e
ry important and
quisite observations, in whatever quarter of the globe they
res onsible duties which he e as a elated to
may be stationed; the Astronomer Royal has determined ppp g .
the species of observations to be made, and the character D. Edward Turner was a native of Jamaica, and studied
and construction of the instruments to be used; and the medicine at Edinburgh, and chemistry at Gottingen, under
Lords of the Treasury have placed at the disposal of the the instructions of the celebrated analytic chemist Stro-
Royal Satiety the requisite funds for their purchase. I have meyer. He became a lecturer on chemistry at Edinburgh in
felt it ,my duty, Gentlemen, to bring these circumstances 1824, and his first publication was a short introduction to the
under your notice, not merely
study of the laws of chemical combination and the amic
of the proceedings of the as forming an important part
Council of the Royal Society theory. -He obtained the Professorship of Chemistry in the
during the last year, but an encouraging and instructive ex-
London University at its first establishment in 1828, a situa-
tion which he continued to hold to the end of his life. His
ample of the facility with which extensive co-operation
Elements of Chemistry have enjoyed an uncommon degree
and assistance may be obtained in the execution of any
of popularity, and are remarkable for clearness and precision,
scientific object, however extensive it may be, when the
both in the description of his experiments and in the &due-
practical means for performing it are distinctly and clearly
tion of his theory. He was the author of two papers in our
defined. .
It is with real concern that I venture to call your attention Transactions ; the first "On the Composition of the Chlo-
ride of Barium," and the second containing " Researches on
to a letter which has been recently published, on the subject of
the new Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Society, which Atomic Weights," both written with a view of impugning
I somewhat prematurely announced, when I last had the the theory which had been promulgated by some English
honour of addressing you, as preparing for publication, and as chemists of high authority, " that all atomic weights are
likely very shortly to appear. I was perfectly aware, when I simple multiples of that of hydrogen." In the year 1 tt3s,
made that announcement to you, of the nature of the corre- Dr. Turner was compelled, by the declining state of his
spondence which had passed between Mr. Panizzi and the health, to suspend all orginal researches, confining himself
Council relating to this catalogue; but I had no suspicion simply to the duties of his professorship, and lie died in
that the very brief allusion which I made to this subject, or February last, in the fortieth year of his age, to the deep re-
the incidental mention of Mr. Panizzi's name, which I made gret of every friend of the progress of chemical science.
in no offensive or disrespectful sense, would have been consi- lie was a person of most engaging manners and appearance,
dered sufficient ground for its publication. It is not my in- and of most amiable character ; and his body was followed
tention to make any observations on the particular allegations to the grave with every manifestation of respect and affec-
which are made against the Council, both collectively and in- tionate attachment, by the whole body of the pupils and pro-
dividually, in Mr. Panizzi's letter, which will be more pro-
fessors of the institution of which he had so long been a
ornament
D
perly noticed in a short statement, which has been drawn up, principal r. William Ritchie was originally Rector of the Royal
in deference to your good opinion, by the Council, and which
will be read to you by Dr. Roget : but I think it my duty to Academy of Taim in Ross-shire, where he contrived,
by extreme frugality, to save a sufficient sum from his
state to you, that I was not only cognisant of the whole course
of time proceedings of the Council at the time when they took very small annual stipend to attend a course of the lee-
place, but that I perfectly concurred in their propriety ; and tures cf Thenard, Gay-Lussac, and Biot, at Paris ; and
I beg leave further to assure you, that a careful perusal of also to provide a substitute fur the performance of his du-
Mr. Panizzi's correspondence with the Council, of his corn- ties during his temporary absence from Scotland. His
ments upon their resolutions, and of his imputations upon skill and originality in devising and perforining experiments
their conduct, has in no respect tended to modify the opinion with the most simple materials, in illustration of various
which I originally formed, or to induce me to withdraw from
disputed points of natural philosophy, attracted the atter,-
the full share of responsibility which I incur, in connection tion of the distinguished philosophers whose occasional
with the proceedings, in common with every other member of
pupil he had become : he bad also communicated, through Sir
'
the Council. John Herschel, who took a strong interest in his fortunes, to
Before I conclude this portion of my address, I feel it to the Royal Soci ty, papers, "Oa a new Photometer," "On
be-my duty to notice the retirement of Mr. Children and Mr. a new form of the Differential Thermometer," and "On the
Konig from the offices which they have so long. and so ably Perrnmeability of transparent Screens of extreme tenuity by
filled. The increasing duties which have been imposed oftenßadiant Heat, ' which led to his appointment, through the re-
them by recent regulations at the British Museum have been commendation of Major Sal;ine, to the Professorship of Na-
deemed by them in some degree incompatible with those which tural Philosophy at the Royal Institution, where he delivered
they owe to the Royal Society : and they have determined, a course of probationary lectures in the spring of 1829. He
therefore, with a promptitude and delicacy of feeling which became from this time a permanent resident in London, and was
appointed to the prof, saes ship of Natural Philosophy in the Lou.do them honour, to retire from their official connection with
us. It is quite unnecessary for me to enlarge upon the merits don University in 1832. He subsequently communicated to the
of two gentlemen who are so well known to you by their Royal Society, papers "On the Elasticity of Threads of Glass,
labours in your service, by the courtesy of their manners, and and the application of this property to Torsion Balances;" and,
by the extent and variety of their acquirements; but I should also various experimental researches on the electric and cheini-
do injustice to my own feelings if I did not express, in the cal theories of galvanism, on electromagnetism and voltaic elec-
strongest terms, my personal obligations to them for their at- tricity, which arc more remarkable for the practical ingenuity
tention to my wishes, and for the anxiety which they have manifested in the contrivance and execution of the expo_
always shown that the interests of the Royal Society should riments, than for the influence of the views which they
not suffer from any occasional inability to attend personally to display on the progress of their theory, which was so
I the discharge of the duties of my office. lam quite sure, fully and so happily developed by the contemporary labours
of. another illustrious chemist and philosopher. Dr.
I Gentlemen, that I do not misinterpret your feelings, when I
propose to thank them, in your name and my own, for their Ritchie was subsequently engaged ill experiments, on
long and valuable services.
an extensive scale on the manufacture of glass for optical
The Society has lost during the last year twenty-nine mem-
purposes, for the examination of the results of which a com-
bers on the home, and two on the foreign list ; and I shall mission was appointed by the Government, with a view to
their further prosecution by a public grant of money, or by
now proceed to notice some of the most -distinguished names
affording increased facilities of experiment by a relaxation
whHen ry Thomas ich appear amoeolebrooke was the son of Sir George Cole-
nest them. of the regula•ions of the Excise. A telescope of eight
brooke, an eminent Director of the East India Company,
inches aperture was made by Mr. Dollond, from Dr. Ritchie's
g
under whose auspices he proceeded to India, as a writer, in glass, at the recommendation of this commission ; but it is
1782. Though a severe student in youth, and strongly dis-
f
generally understood that its performance was not so satisfac-
posed to follow a learned profession at home, he gave no indi-
tory as to sanction a further expenditure in the extension o
cations, for many years after his arrival in India, of those these experiments. Dr. Ritchie died in the autumn of
tastes for severe and abstract studies for which he was after- the present year, of a fever caught in Scotland, and though
wards so celebrated; and we consequently find, that while the traces of an imperfect and irregular education are but too
resident at Purneah, lie devoted much of his time to the wild manifest in most of his theoretical researches, yet he must el-
and animating field-sports of the East, for which he long re- ways be regarded as an experhnenter of great ingenuity amid
tamed a passionate fondness. He made his first appearance merit, and as a remarkable example of the acquisition of a
as an author in 1792, in a Treatise on the Agriculture and very extensive knowledge of philosophy under difficulties and
Commerce of Bengal ; and it was about this period that he privations which would have arrested the progress of any person
began, with all the ardour and energy which distinguished his of less ardour and determination of character.
character, the study of the Sanscrit language, chiefly with a Mr. Joseph Sabine was educated in the University of Dab-
view to acquire a knowledge of the Lilawati and other San- lin, and devoted himself, from a very early period of life, to
sci it treatises on Algebra and Astronomy, which the some- the study of botany, ornithology, and other branches of natu-
what extravagant speculations of Bailly and others had begun ral history, to the neglect of those professional studies which
to bring into notice. He subsequently undertook the transla- his friends designed him to pursue. One of his earliest la-
tion of the Digest of the Hindu Laws of Contracts and Sue- hours was the formation of a collection of British birds of
cessions, which had been compiled under the direction of Sir almost unrivalled extent and completeness. He became sec-
William Jones, a most laborious and difficult task, which he rotary to the Horticultural Society at the p rind of its first
completed in less than two years. It was during his engage- establishment ; and though his connexion with it was after-
ment on this work that he was appointed to a judicial situation wards vet v abruptly, ann perhaps very harshly, terminated,
at Mirzapore, a position singularly suited to his tastes and he must always be considered as the chief author of its sue-
pursuits, from its vicinity to Benares, the great repository of cessful and complete development. To the Horticultural
the ancient treasures of the literature of Iliedostan, and the transactions, he contributed 64 papers. the most important of
' place of residence of its most learned expounders. which are those on the genera Crocus, Dahlia, and Cry-
In the year 1800 he was removed to Calcutta, and raised to
santheenum ; and he was also required to re-write the great-
the highest judicial situation in the native courts of India, est part of the communications which were addressed to the
at the same time that he was made President of the Board of Society by gardeners and practical men, which were rarely
sent in a fit state for publication, but which frequently em-
Revenue, Member of the Supreme Council, and Honorary
Professor of Sanscrit in the College of Fort William. But bodied very important information on the various processes of
the important official duties which he was thus called upon Horticulture.
to discharge seem rather to have stimulated, thin to have Mr. Sabine was likewise an active and valuable member of
checked, his labours and investigations in oriental literature the Zoological Society, whose gardens are chiefly indebted to
and oriental science. In the course of a few years there ap- his taste and knowledge for the introduction and systematic
peared from his pen many profound dissertations in the arrangement of those splendid flowers and shrubs which have
Asiatic researches, on the Vedanta System of Philosophy, on added so greatly to their beauty and interest.
Sanscrit and Pracrit Poetry and Grammar, on the Indian Mr. Sabine held, for the greatest part of his life, the situa-
Classes, on the Orin and Tenets of the Mahometan Sects, tion of Inspector-General of Taxes, anti was called upon by
on the Jains, on he Indian and Arabian division of the his official duties to make periodical visits to almost every
part of the kingdom ; he never omitted any cp, ortunity whice
Signs of the Zodiac, and on the Notions of the Hindu Astro-
nomers on the Precession of the Equinoxes and the Motions his various j :moneys afforded him, of acquiring or of conenu-
of the Planets ; to which must be added the first volume of a nieating practical knowledge of horticulture and of botany ;
very elaborate Sanscrit Grammar, the translation on the and few persons have contributed so much, by their personal
Peostra, a Sanscrit Dictionary, and two extensive Treatises exertions, to add to the decorations of the cottage and the
on the Hindu Law of Inheritance, together with editions of Park, to increase and improve the produce of our gardens, and
the Amara Cosha, a Sanscrit Vocabulary, and of the Hito_ thus greatly to exteed the sphere of the innocent enjoyments
padesa, or " Salutary Instruction," which had been translated and luxuries of all classes of society.
by Mr. Wilkins, and which is more commonly known under The Rev. Dr. Joseph Hallett Batten was a native of Pen-
the name of the " Fables of Pilpay." za'tce, in Cornwall, and was elected a, Fellow of Trinity Col-
It was some time after Mr. Colebrooke's return to this leg-e„Cambridge in ISOI, after attaining very high academical
country that be published, in 1817, a translation of the Lila- honours. He was appoint. d CI issical Professor at the East
wati and Vija-Ganita, Sanscrit treatises on arithmetic, algebra, In:ia College at Ilayletbury, at the period of its first esta-
and mensuration, to which was prefixed a dissertation on the blithment .and became Principal of the College upon the ye-
early history of algebra and arithmetic in India, Arabia, and tirement of Dr. elenley, a situation which he continued to
Italy, which is equally remarkable for its profound knowledge retain until wit'Ain a month of his death. He was a man of
of the Hindu and Arabian literature, and its correct views of cultivated taste,
and of very extensive attainments, both in
the relations of oriental and ancient and modern European
theologg and general literature, and in every way worthy—
science. He was also the first person who' maintained, from by VA intellectual powers of character—of presiding over an
his own observations on the plains of Ilindostan, the superior F,stablishment which has been so justly distinguished by the
elevation of the Himalayan mountains smbove the Andes of, very eminent men who have been, and now are, connected
America, in opposition to the opbaiors generally entert-fteee with it.
at that period, and which had been sanctioned by the, great Dr. John Johnstone was the sixth son of the celebrated Dr.
authority of Humboldt's theory ut the range of •:mie curve of James Johnstone, of Worcester, and received his,educatioe at
perpetual ettegelation. The complete confiel-nation which Merton College, Oxford. Ile was for upwards of 40 years a
very distinguished physician at Birmingham and its neigh-
his opinion afterwards received, from accurate barometri-
bourhood, and made his first appearance as an author in a de-
cal and trigonometrical measurements yeas always referred
to, in his latter years, with particular satisfaction and triumph,
fence of his fathom's claim to the first discovery of the disin-
fccting teowers of muriatic acid gas, which had been claimed
Mr. Colebrooke continued the steady pursuit 4'llis oriental
and scientific studies until nearly the Omar of his life, by Dr, Carmiclisel Stet th. Though earnestly
stwdy and practice of his profession, he retained throuhout
and even when the progress of his inderefties confined himattached toot he
life a fondness for classical literature, and lived on the most
almost entirely to his bed. He was one cif te,e founders of the
Asiatic and Astronomical Societies, and intimate tennis with sonic of the most distinguished scholars of
et short time before
the age, including amongst their number the justly celebratedlb
his death he gave to the library of the Ir dia House his ineero-
parable collection of Sanscrit and Ash Dr. Parr, whose life and voluminous correspondence he
cpiu
had been collected at an expense cf • ,tic manuscripts, which
•,, early rlt 10,000/., with the hailed, a work full of interesting literary anecdote and - as-
-181?,
noble view of preserving them
dis '
spersion by the fluctuating acc•ssa
tram: Leaver: from thas danger of
onts of inheritarsee. and which has been recently published, with a short mersmoir
sical research ; and his Ilarveian oration, pronounced in
cf Lichfield, is a model of
Mr. Colebrooke was probably.. witl one single of his life, by his friend the Bishop
1 neexception,
correct Latinity. Dr. Johnstone was a man of
the greatest Sanscrit scholar of his - age ; and when we take spirited and .
dof great independence of character,
into account his great acquireneeee Ls
in mathematics and phi- very warm affections il n ..
As
literature, combined and he was universally respected in
losophy, and in almol ever•-
;ft' branch of
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