39G SIR RODERICK I. MURCHISON'S ADDRESS. [May 25, 1857. 



list of works whicli lie published,* in whicli great research, combined 

 with much originality, is one of the most characteristic features. 

 But the work which has formed the basis of his European reputa- 

 tion was undoubtedly his ' History of the Ottoman Empire,' by far 

 the most important work yet written on this interesting subject, 

 though even here he has been accused of an undue bias toward the 

 House of Austria ; a bias, however, as pardonable as it is natural in 

 such a case. 



He died at Yienna on the 16th of November, 1856, in his 83rd 

 year. His monument, which he had himself prepared forty years 

 before his death, is placed at his own request in the cemetery of 

 Weidling, near Kloster Neuburg. In a spirit of humble piety he 

 addressed a letter to our Secretary not long ago, in which, after 

 announcing the formation of a Geographical Society at Vienna 

 and presenting to this Society a copy of his last works, he adds : — ■ 

 " As there is little probability that I shall be long enough in life to 

 see the end of the printing of this work, I mention the circumstance 

 that you may claim after my death the continuation of the work 

 from the Imperial Academy." 



J. F. Wahlberg, the Swedish Explorer and Naturalist, already 

 known for his travels in South Africa in 1843, was killed by an 

 elephant on the 6th of March, 1856, on the border of a river about 

 200 miles N.E. of Lake Ngami, probably the River Tamunakle of 

 Livingstone. His collections have been sent to the Cape. His 

 companion Mr. Green had ascended the Tioghe as far as Libebe, 

 100 miles to the south of which he was forced to leave his boat on 

 account of the rapids. 



M. Wahlberg, who was a Member of the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences of Stockholm, had returned to his native land in 1 844, but 

 the indomitable desire to make new discoveries in natural history 

 led him to revisit Southern Africa in 1854. Endowed with pro- 

 found knowledge in zoology and botany, M. Wahlberg, being speci- 

 ally characterized by a modest and unassuming manner, was truly 



* Amongst his numerous publications the most important are, ' Encyclopedic 

 View of Oriental Science/ 1804 ; 'Glance at Turkish Literature,' 1816 ; ' History 

 of Persian Belles Lettres,' 1818; 'History of the Assassins,' 1818; ' History of 

 the Ottoman Empire,' 1827-1834; 'History of Ottoman Poetry,' 1830-1838; 

 'The Mongols in Russia,' 1840; 'Geography of Arabia,' 1840; ' The Mongols 

 in Persia,' 1843 ; * Treatise on the Seals of the Arabs, Persians, and Turks,' 

 1849 ; * Keport on Reinaud's French Translation of Abulfeda's Geography,' 1849 ; 

 ' Report on Printed and Lithographic Works published at Constantinople during 

 the Years 1845-1848.' 



