May 25, 1857.] OBITUARY. 389 



vessels on foreign stations, he was chosen, tlirougli his merits, to form 

 one of the scientific complement of the Adventure, in which ship 

 young Graves played so able a part, that his Captain, now Admiral 

 W. H. Smyth, and other officers strongly urged his promotion. During 

 the next five years, he was a companion of that excellent officer the 

 late Eear-Admiral Philip P. King, in his extensive surveys of the 

 Straits of Magellan and the adjacent shores of South America, and 

 it was only during that difficult service, and in the year 1827, that 

 he: was appointed a Lieutenant, i. e., after ten years of arduous pro- 

 bation. 



After performing, in conjunction with the Eoyal Engineers, a 

 survey of Lough Neagh in Ireland, the next ten years of the life of 

 Captain Graves were spent in surveying the Greek Archipelago, 

 first in command of the Beacon, and next of the Volage corvette. 

 These surveys were suddenly put a stop to by an order of the 

 Admiralty, which both Sir F. Beaufort and Admiral Smyth con- 

 sidered to be an " inscrutable measure," and a heavy blow inflicted 

 on this important branch of the naval service. 



Whilst compiling about one hundred charts and plans of the Gre- 

 cian Archipelago — as interesting to the antiquary and historian as 

 they are valuable to the navigator — Captain Graves had the singular 

 merit of attracting to his little ship the Beacon, as his friend 

 and companion, that young naturalist Edward Forbes, then rising 

 in the estimation of his contemporaries, and who, after passing 

 nearly two years in dredging the JSgean Sea, and in develop- 

 ing the conditions of life and habits of submarine animals at 

 various depths, threw a broad new light upon geological science. 

 The name of Graves must therefore ever be associated with that 

 of Edward Forbes ! Even to Captain Graves himself geologists are 

 much indebted, for his numerous contributions of fossils from distant 

 parts. That these were very important all my contemporaries are 

 aware, and particularly those still living, who, like myself, fre- 

 quented the rooms of that remarkable naturalist Charles Stokes, 

 whose merits I attempted to place on record for the late Lord EUes- 

 mere when he last occupied this chair. To this Society Captain 

 Graves communicated a description of Skyros, and was the cause of 

 our Journal being enriched by the instructive papers of his assistants 

 Spratt and Leycester. 



Ever zealous in advancing knowledge, he also aiforded to Sir 

 Charles Fellows assistance in the investigation of the antiquities 

 of Lycia, that was duly acknowledged. Such conduct surely called 



