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Dr Grant and Mr Lmdlcy, each of those gentlemen taking a division of the 

 subject with which he was most familiar. Dr Turner was snatched from 

 science at the early age of thirty-nine, having been born in the island of Ja- 

 maica in 1796". He studied anatomy at Edinburgh, and chemistry at Got- 

 tingen, under the able chemist Friedrich Von Stromeyer, to whom he dedi- 

 cated his Elements of Chemistry ; a work which has had, as it well deserves, 

 a very wide circulation among students. 



In William Parish, B. D., Jacksonian Professor of Natural and Experi- 

 mental Philosophy in the University of Cambridge, the Society has lost an 

 honorary member, elected as such soon after its original foundation, namely in 

 November 1808, and one of a number of our countrymen who were at that 

 period placed upon the honorary list. Professor Parish never employed him- 

 self peculiarly in geological pursuits, as we now understand the term; but it 

 is to be recollected, that within a few years of the date of his election, which 

 I have mentioned, the investigation of the earth's structure made a rapid 

 progress, and, in consequence, assumed a more fixed and technical form. Pro- 

 fessor Parish's scientific studies were mainly directed to the arts, manufac- 

 tures, and machinery of the empire ; on these subjects he delivered courses 

 of lectures full of interest and instruction; and he was thus led to describe 

 our mines, and the mode of working them. 



But no reference to particular portions of Professor Parish's labours can 

 convey a just notion of the impulse which he gave to the progress of scienti- 

 fic knowledge within his own sphere of influence, by the habit of seizing, 

 with an active and vivid apprehension, upon prominent parts of modern 

 science, and conveying them, in a manner singularly clear and simple, to his 

 audience. For a long course of years, his lectures were more efficacious than 

 any other circumstance ii^ stimulating the minds of men in his university to 

 philosophical thought on physical subjects ; and to this day these lectures are 

 never mentioned, by those who attended them at that period, without admi- 

 ration and pleasure. His merit was well recognised by the university in 

 which he spent his life. He received the highest mathematical honours of 

 that body on taking his degree of B. A. in 177B, was elected Professor of 

 Chemistry in 1794, and Jacksonian Professor in 1813; and at the institution 

 of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in November 1819, he was its first 

 president. 



I cannot refrain from adding, that although I have here to speak of him 

 principally as a man of science, such pursuits were in his case little more than 

 episodes, in a life the main action of which was directed to the ends of reli- 

 gion and benevolence. In his duties as a minister of Christianity, he was most 

 zealous and indefatigable ; and every attempt to relieve the misery, the igno- 

 rance, the unjust restraints of any portion of mankind, found in him a stre- 

 nuous advocate and ready agent. His childlike simplicity, genuine kindness 

 of heart, and untiring religious earnestness, were such as well suited his kin- 

 dred with Bernard Gilpin, " the Apostle of the North," from whom, through 

 his mother, he derived his descent. He was bom at Carlisle in 1759, and 

 died at the age of seventy-eight. 



Henry Thomas Culebrooke, Member of the Supreme Council of Calcutta, 

 was one of those extraordinary men whom our Indian empire has produced; 



