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the ' Proceedings of the Committee of Science of the Zoological 

 Society,' " On the Luminous Appearance of the Ocean." Nothing 

 can more strikingly evince the activity of his mind and the versa- 

 tility of his genius than the readiness with which he turned his 

 attention from geological pursuits to grapple with the difficulties 

 of the ancient Lycian inscriptions brought home by Sir C. Eellowes, 

 Captain Spratt, and Professor Forbes, in regard to which the 

 accuracy of his interpretations of an unknown tongue, written in 

 an imperfectly known character, has not, so far as I am aware, been 

 questioned by philologists, Mr. Sharpe was unmarried ; he be- 

 came a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1828, of the Greological 

 Society in 1829, and of the Eoyal Society in 1850. In 1853 he 

 was elected Treasurer of the Greological Society ; and in February 

 1856 he succeeded Mr. Hamilton in the office of President. After 

 only three months' tenure of that high scientific position, he met 

 with the melancholy accident which prematurely terminated his 

 active and honourable career. 



Charles Ham^pden Turner, Esq^., who became a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society in 1819, and of the Eoyal Society in 1821, was 

 chiefly known in connexion with Natural History, from his being 

 the owner of a fine collection of minerals, purchased by him from 

 the late M. Heuland. He died at his seat, Eooksnest Park, near 

 Godstone, Surrey, on the 17th of March, 1856, at the age of 83. 



The melancholy list of our losses concludes with the name of 

 William Yarrell, Usq., whose death cannot be recorded without 

 an expression of the deepest regret on the part of a Society of 

 which he had long been so invaluable an adviser and so distin- 

 guished an ornament, and on the part also of a large number of 

 its members, who have lost in him a true and faithful friend. 

 Mr. Yarrell was born on the 3rd of June, 1784, in Duke Street, 

 St. James's, where his father and his uncle, Mr. Jones, carried on 

 in partnership the business of newspaper-agents. His school-days 

 were passed at Dr. Nicholas's large establishment at Ealing, where 

 the late Greneral Sale was among his fellow-pupils, together with 

 his cousin, Mr. Edward Jones, his future partner, and where he 

 acquired the character of a quiet and studious boy. In the year 

 1802 he became a clerk in the banking-house of Messrs. Herries, 

 Farquhar, and Co., but soon left that employ to join his cousin in 

 the business which had previously belonged to their two fathers, 

 and which, at the death of the cousin in 1850, became wholly his 

 own. In the house in Duke Street, and in the corner house of 

 Bury Street and Little Ryder Street, to which the business had 



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