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great Sir Charles Linne to John Ellis, and referring them, in all sincerity, 

 to Charles Darwin " You have enriched our science by laying open a new 

 submarine world to the admirers of nature. You have taken so lofty 

 a rank in science, by your discovery among the Cirripedia, that no vicissi- 

 tudes in human affairs can obscure your reputation." Such is our opinion 

 of the author of this splendid Monograph ; and we have little doubt that 

 posterity will attach an equal value to it ; and this, it is universally ac- 

 knowledged, is the best test of a writer's merit. 



IT is with feelings of more than ordinary regret that we are called on to 

 record the passage from time into eternity of two whose names were as 

 familiar as household words to many of our readers the Rev. David 

 Landsborough, and Professor Edward Forbes ; each of whom has left a 

 blank in our scientific circles which will not be easily filled. 



THE EEV. DAVID LANDSBOROUGH, 



Whose labours, to use his own language, " though earned on late and 

 early, by one who all day, and every day, was occupied with his profes- 

 sional duties [duties which we know that he never neglected], were still 

 far from unpleasant," and the record of which are well calculated, from 

 their cheerful, popular style, to encourage many to tread in his steps. A 

 severe attack of cholera carried him from the little things of this earth into 

 the great things of eternity ; he has ceased from his labours, he has 

 entered into his rest ; and for him we sorrow not, as those without hope. 



PROFESSOR EDWARD FORBES, 



So intimately associated with the progress of natural science in this 

 country, has also passed away; but his memory will be long trea- 

 sured up among the bright things of the past by all who were ac- 

 quainted with him. Possessing scientific talents of the highest order, he 

 was also gifted with those social qualities which were most calculated to 

 endear him to all his fellow-students ; and though his circle of acquaintance 

 was more than usually great, it has been frequently remarked of him that 

 he was a man who never lost a friend. There are few who read this 



