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observer of current events, and that he looked abroad upon life with 

 discerning and intelligent eyes, and brought to bear upon passing 

 events a cool, clear, and impartial judgment. Archdeacon Hale had 

 a special fondness for antiquarian studies ; and it is to his learning 

 in that direction that we owe the more important productions of his 

 pen. He wrote a sketch of the history of the Charterhouse ; and he 

 afterwards published what may be called a companion sketch of 

 Christ's Hospital ; while for the Camden Society he produced ' The 

 Doomsdays of St. Paul's,' and ' Registrum Privatum S. Mariae Wigo- 

 niensis,' both works of great antiquarian interest. In his own 

 professional studies he annotated an edition of the Four Gospels 

 jointly with the late Bishop of Lichfield, and wrote several 

 devotional works for the Society for Promoting Christian Know- 

 ledge. Some of the articles in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana 

 ' were also contributed by him ; and in addition to his charges other 

 tracts and sermons which he preached on different occasions were 

 afterwards published. He died at the Charterhouse, on the 11th 

 of November 1870. He was elected a Fellow of this Society on the 

 16th of June 1859. 



Alexander Henhy Halidat was born at Belfast, in 180 7. His early 

 education took place at home. At the age of fifteen he was entered 

 as a student at Trinity CoUege, Dublin, where he remained five 

 years, obtaining the golden medal, the highest prize to which stu-- 

 dents there could at that time attain ; he also took his M.A. degree. 

 Subsequently he studied for the legal profession, and was called to 

 the bar, but he very rarely practised. In 1843 he was appointed 

 High Sheriff of the County of Antrim, and discharged conscientiously 

 the duties of that office. At an early period of life he had shown a 

 taste for natural history, more especially entomology, and at the age 

 of twenty-one he published in the 'Zoological Journal' a local list 

 of Coleoptera and Diptera. Soon after this, however, he appears to 

 have devoted himself more especially to the order Diptera, then 

 almost unstudied in this country ; and he published a series of valu- 

 able papers thereon, which have received the highest encomiums 

 from the most competent judges, the learned dipterologists Loew and 

 Schiner. 



When Mr. Francis Walker was at work on the order Diptera for 

 the series of the Insecta Britannica, he received much valuable 

 assistance from Mr. Haliday, who contributed the characters and 

 synoptical tables of the Diptera — of the Empidce, of the Syrphidce, 

 and the whole of the Dolichopidce, These contributions, as recorded 

 by Herr Loew in his introduction to the Monographs of the Diptera 



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