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oimens of sulphur, boracic acid, &c., collected by him at the volcano 

 of Kilanea. 



Commander Paulson, r.n., closes the list of naval officers who 

 have been taken from us. He served in the Burmese war as a 

 Lieutenant, and attained the rank of Commander in 1842, when the 

 Royal George yacht was placed under his orders. 



Sir James Eamsay, Bart., of Banff House, Perthshire, and the 

 eighth Baronet of the name, who died in January last, was a lover 

 of scientific pursuits and a respected country gentleman. 



Sir Edward North Buxton, Bart., who died at the early age of 

 forty- five, was son of the justly respected Sir Thomas Powell Bux- 

 ton, whose name is for ever associated with the emancipation 

 of the African negro. He was bom in 1812, succeeded to the 

 Baronetcy on his father's death in 1845, and in 1847 was elected 

 as representative for South Essex. In 1855 he was obliged to go 

 abroad with his family on account of his health, and he spent the 

 winters of 1856 and 1857 chiefly at Nice. His visit to Piedmont 

 will long be particularly remembered, on account of the beneficent 

 influence which he exercised in calming down that unseemly strife 

 which had divided the Italian from the Vaudois Protestants. In 

 this good work he persevered, and he deemed it so important that 

 the true character of the Italians should be clearly known, that he 

 took a journey from Cromer last September purposely to state his 

 views to the religious conference assembled at Berlin. 



Kev. Dr. Jenkyn. — The late Rev. Dr. Jenkyn displayed in 

 early age a thirst for knowledge, which distinguished him 

 through life. Placed under the able tuition of the late Rev. Dr. Pye 

 Sijaith, he formed a friendship with him which lasted till death ; and 

 from that excellent man he doubtless derived that love of natural 

 science which was so marked a feature of his intellectual character. 



His ardent attachment to geological science is well known, and his 

 'Elementary Lectures on Geology' in a popular educational perio- 

 dical were characterised by a leading member of the Geological 

 Society as being the best work of the kind for the masses that he 

 had seen. In 1853 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society. He died at Rochester, deeply and deservedly 

 regretted by those who knew him, in the sixty-fourth year of 

 his age. 



He published works on religious subjects to which it is not my 

 province to advert, and was for some years President of Coward 

 College, London. 



