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cursor of the ' Athenaeum,' and of various other journals. On his 

 way to and from India, Mr. Buckingham travelled through different 

 countries, and afterwards published narratives of his travels. In 

 1822 appeared 'Travels in Palestine;' in 1825, 'Arabia;' in 1827, 

 ' Mesopotamia and adjacent Countries;' and in 1830, 'Assyria and 

 Media.' At a later period, he made tours in various parts t)f Europe 

 and North America, his account of the latter occupying no fewer 

 than ten volumes, three devoted to the Northern States of the Union, 

 three to the Slave States, three to the Eastern and Western States, 

 and one to Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. The Eu- 

 ropean travels are described in two volumes on Belgium, the Ehine, 

 and Switzerland. All these contain much valuable descriptive and 

 statistical matter, the author having paid more attention than is 

 usual with tourists, to the social condition of the countries which he 

 visited. Mr. Buckingham was one of the most pleasing and instruc- 

 tive popular lecturers, especially in describing places which he had 

 visited. In 1832, he was elected M.P. for Sheffield in the first 

 reformed Parliament, and retained his seat till 1837. In his politi- 

 cal life, he chiefly took an active part in questions affecting social 

 reforms ; and the temperance movement had in him a zealous advo- 

 cate. In 1849, he published a volume, entitled ' National Evils and 

 Piactical Eemedies,' in which he expounded his views on a variety 

 of topics of public interest. Mr. Buckingham died on the 30th of 

 June last, aged 69. His last work, published a few months before 

 his death, was his ' Autobiography.' 



Carr, Commander Washington, entered the navy in 1811, and in 

 May, 1843, was appointed to the command, in the West Indies, of 

 the ' Hermes ' steam-sloop. Commander Carr was known as an 

 amiable man and a sincere friend. 



Chattertox, Sir William A., Bart., an early Fellow of this Society, 

 died in August last, at KoUs Park, Essex. He was born in 1787, 

 and was the second Baronet, a Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of 

 Cork, a Vice-President of the Koyal Literary Fund, a Fellow of 

 the Zoological Society, and a member of the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences of St. Petersburg. 



CoLQUHOUN, the Chevalier James de, ll.d., &c., one of the earliest 

 Fellows of this Society, was the only son of Dr. Patrick Colquhoun, 

 late Lord Provost of Glasgow, one of the first who applied him- 

 self to the development of the statistics of the British empire. 

 He founded and carried out the present system of Thames Police, 

 whereby the mercantile interest is now so bfSciently protected ; and 



