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his numerous living friends, and the children of such of his old 

 friends who had before him " gone to the many." 



Vice- Admiral Lord Radstock, c.b., has very recently been taken 

 from us. Born in 1786, and entering into the profession of his 

 father, the well-known admiral, who won the battle off Lagos in 

 1797, he distinguished himself in several engagements in the Medi- 

 terranean, in the last as Captain Waldegrave, and off the Italian 

 coast, in destroying the batteries at the mouth of the Ehone. He 

 was afterwards made naval aide-de-camp to the Queen. Although 

 the death of Lord Eadstock seemed appallingly sudden to those 

 who had seen him sitting at the General Meeting of the London 

 University a few days before, yet others who, like myself, had 

 watched with grief the rapid change in his health during the pre- 

 ceding months, were not unprepared for the sad event. A'aluing 

 Lord Radstock highly for his personal qualities, I can truly say that 

 the death of this brave officer and excellent man created a very 

 general feeling of real sorrow, as deep among his friends and 

 acquaintances as in all those public bodies, and numerous cha- 

 ritable institutions, in the welfare of which he took a warm interest. 



Robert Anderson, Surgeon, r.n., who died in June, 185G, at the 

 early age of 38, was born in the parish of Fettercairn, Kincardine- 

 shire. Receiving his early education at the Academy of Montrose, 

 his medical studies were carried on and completed in the Univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh. Entering the Royal Navy, as an assistant- 

 surgeon, in 1838, he served successively in the Royal Adelaide, 

 the Princess Charlotte flag-ship, and in the Powerful, being on 

 board the last-mentioned ship when commanded by Sir C. Napier at 

 the siege of Acre and during other operations on the coast of Syria. 

 Afterwards serving upon the East India and China station in the 

 Agincourt, Spiteful, and Dasdalus, and obtaining the rank of 

 surgeon, he again passed to the Spiteful, in which he returned 

 from India in 1847. In the following year Mr. Anderson was 

 appointed surgeon of H. M. S. Investigator, Captain Bird, which 

 shared in the expedition of Sir James Clark Ross to the Arctic 

 Seas; and in 1849, he was again selected for similar service as 

 surgeon of H.M.S. Enterprise, Capt. Collinson, in which he con- 

 tinued to serve till the return of that vessel to England. With 

 the exception of scarcely 9 months, Mr. Anderson was constantly 

 employed afloat for a period of nearly 17 years, of which 7 were 

 spent in Arctic service. 



Besides writing extended journals, Mr. Anderson made a large 



