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Thus honored and trusted, lived, and labored, and died Sir David 

 Brewster ; a careful experimentalist, an elegant writer, a warm advo- 

 cate of what he believed to be the truth. In him Christian faith was 

 instructed by accurate science, and science was illuminated and in- 

 spired by Christian faith. 



Sir William Lawrence, an Honorary Member of the Academy, 

 died on the 5th of July, 1867, aged 84. He was born at Cirencister, 

 near Gloucester, England, in 1783, and was educated at the Classical 

 School. In his seventeenth year he went to reside in the family of 

 Mr. Abernethy, to whom he was apprenticed. His official connection 

 with various hospitals began in 1801, when he was appointed Demon- 

 strator of Anatomy at St. Bartholomew's. In 1828, having steadily 

 advanced in reputation and honors, he succeeded Mr. Abernethy as 

 Lecturer on Surgery in that Hospital. In 1814 he was elected Sur- 

 geon to the Eye Infirmary, and in 1815 Surgeon to the Royal Hospi- 

 tals of Bridewell and Bethlem. 



In 18G5, having been in constant service in these institutions for 

 more than sixty years, he resigned at the age of eighty -two. 



Mr. Lawrence was Fellow of the Royal Society and Vice-Presi- 

 dent during the Presidency of the Duke of Sussex. He was a mem- 

 ber of the French Institute, and of other learned and scientific associa- 

 tions. In 1831 he was elected President of the " Medico-Chirurgieal 

 Society," and, in 1858, Surgeon to the Queen. 



It is unnecessary on this occasion to enumerate the long list of his 

 works ; suffice it to say that from the year 1801 he was constantly en- 

 gaged in literary labors either in the form of contributions to various 

 journals or of elaborate treatises. His translation of Blumenbach, with 

 the addition of numerous notes and an introductory view of the classifica- 

 tion of animals on the basis of anatomical structure, was published in 

 1807, and gave the first impulse, in England, to the study of comparative 

 anatomy. He also contributed the anatomical and physiological ar- 

 ticles in Rees's Cyclopaedia. In 1819 appeared the "Lectures on the 

 Physiology, Zoology, and Natural History of Man." In this depart- 

 ment, in England, there had previously been very little investigation, 

 and this work excited great interest. It displays a vast amount of re- 

 search and knowledge, and is eminent authority at the present day. 

 Of the strictly professional works, the most important are the treatises 

 on Diseases of the Eye, on Hernia, and his most recent work on 

 Surgery. 



