324 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 



Natural History Society, and the Normal Schools, specially 

 owe him a debt of gratitude. 



While in Canada he met with the most severe calamity of his 

 life, the death, by drowning, of his only son, a young man of 

 excellent parts, who had already made much progress in scientific 

 attainments, and who bade fair to follow in the footsteps of his 

 father. 



Sir Edmund's largest literary work was his " Handbook of 

 Spanish Painting." He also published a clever little book on 

 " Shall and Will," and an important memoir on the celebrated 

 " Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli," in which he brings his classical 

 and antiquarian lore to aid the geologist in explaining the 

 wonderful alternations of elevation and subsidence to which this 

 building and the neighbouring coast have been subjected. 



Sir Edmund died suddenly at his town residence, Eaton Square, 

 London, on the 25th of January, 1868. 



Published. Montreal, May 24 r 1868. 



