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collection of specimens illustrative of the natural history of the 

 Arctic regions. Of this collection the zoological specimens were 

 deposited in the British Museum, the dried plants being sent to Sir 

 William Jackson Hooker at Kew, and the fossil remains to the 

 Geological Society. 



Frank, generous, and warm-hearted, esteemed alike for his pro- 

 fessional abilities, scientific attainments, and private worth, his 

 conduct through life exemplified a high-toned sense of honour and 

 manly independence of character, and his premature death has 

 caused real sorrow to his numerous friends. 



Charles Elliott, Esq., who died in May, 1856, at the age of 80, 

 was a sagacious and esteemed Civil Servant of the East India Com- 

 pany. He always strove to promote the advancement of know- 

 ledge and geographical science, and was much beloved for his 

 social qualities. Acting in various important capacities in Hindostan, 

 he eventually rose to be the senior member of the Board of Revenue 

 in Bengal, and agent to the Governor-General in the western pro- 

 vinces, in which capacity he proved a worthy successor of Sir 

 Charles, afterwards Lord, Metcalfe. 



Mr. Elliott had been, since the year 1832, a Fellow of the Eoyal 

 Society, by whose members, as by our own, he was much esteemed ; 

 but it is specially in the Asiatic Society, of which he had been 

 some years the Treasurer, that his loss is most felt, as e^ddenced by 

 the Annual Eeport of that body, in which the soundness of his 

 judgment, the integrity of his character, and the discrimination of 

 his taste are justly extolled. 



Lewis H. J. ToNNA was a praiseworthy person, who formerly 

 serving as a purser in the Eoyal Navy, became Secretary of the 

 United Service Institution, and continued to carry on the business 

 of our neighbouring establishment for many years with much 

 efficiency and most obliging manners. 



W. H. Pepys, a native of this metropolis, was born in 1775. 

 He succeeded to his father's trade in the Poultry as cutler and 

 maker of surgical instruments. From his earliest years he de- 

 voted himself zealously, disinterestedly, and uninterruptedly to the 

 advancement of science. It is now exactly half a century since 

 Allen and Pepys communicated to the Eoyal Society the memorable 

 experiment by which the identity of diamond with other known 

 forms of the element carbon was confirmed. It was, however, as the 

 contriver of ingenious modifications of chemical apparatus, that 

 Mr. Pepys rendered the most signal service to scientific men. 



