138 EARL DE. GREY'S ADDRESS. [May 28, 1860. 



last visit to England, he was a frequent attendant at the rooms of 

 this Society. Eitter was one of the founders of the Geographical 

 Society of Berlin, and an Honorary Member and Medallist of this 

 Society, to which he also contributed liis works. Dr. Kiepert has 

 been elected to the Professorship vacant by the death of the 

 lamented Karl Eitter. 



Dr. John Simpson, m.d.,, r.n. — Dr. Simpson accompanied Cap- 

 tain Moore in the Plover to Behring Strait in search of Sir John 

 Franklin and his companions in 1848, and after passing three 

 winters in that locality, returned with Captain Moore and the 

 other officers, via San Francisco, to England. He immediate! 3" 

 volunteered to go back, by the same route, with Captain Maguire, 

 who was appointed to succeed to the command of the Plover. He 

 again passed three winters in the ice, two of which were at Point 

 Barrow. He was greatly beloved by every one on board, and was 

 so successful in his treatment of the crew that not a single life was 

 lost. He made himself acquainted with the Esquimaux language, 

 and wrote the best — indeed it may be said the only — account of 

 the Western Esquimaux, and which will be found at page 917 in 

 the Arctic Blue Books for 1855, and in the pages of the ' Nautical 

 Magazine,' and will ever be considered a most valuable acquisition 

 to our ethnographical knowledge of that part of the globe. On his 

 arrival in England he was ordered to Malta Hospital, and rendered 

 good service there during the Crimean war. He was afterwards 

 promoted to Haslar Hospital, where his brief, but most useful and 

 honourable career in the sei'vice terminated. Dr. Simpson was 

 elected a Fellow in 1855, and took a warm interest in the Society. 

 He was a highly talented man, well versed in his profession, 

 utterly regardless of self, and devoted the best energies of his mind 

 in advancing the happiness of others ; in a word, he was a true 

 Christian, well Reserving of imitation in his singlenegs of purpose. 



Eobert Stephenson, one of our most eminent engineers, and 

 M.P. for Whitby, was born at Willington in 1803, under very 

 humble circumstances. On leaving school, at the age of fifteen, 

 Eobert Stephenson was apprenticed to Mr. Nicholas Wood at Killing- 

 worth, to learn the business of the colliery, where he served for 

 three years, and became familiar with all the departments of 

 underground- work. He was afterwards sent, in the j^ear 1820, to 

 the Edinburgh University, where Hope was lecturing on Chemistry, 

 Sir John Leslie on Natural Philosophy, and Jameson on Natural 



