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few hours afterwards from an attack of angina pectoris. His 

 deatli leaves a gap in the ranks of algologists which it will be dif- 

 ficult to fill. 



M. Thuret was elected a Foreign INIember on the 6th of May 

 1869. 



Egbert Carb Woods -was born on the 31st of July, 1816, and 

 "was the son of William AVylie Woods, of Burgh in the county of 

 Lincoln. He left England for India when very young, but before 

 quitting his native country he had given evidence of his love for 

 work and his abilities to do what he undertook in a proper manner 

 by his contributions to the publications of several learned Societies. 

 Before he was twenty-two he was Begistrar and one of the Council 

 of the Meteorological Society of London, and a Corresponding 

 Member of the Botanical Society ; and he had contributed papers 

 to both those Societies. Amongst these are ' Directions for 

 making Meteorological Observations on Land and at Sea,' a ' Syn- 

 optical Chart of Meteorological Phenomena at Eight Principal 

 Stations in Great Britain during the year 1837,' a 'Meteorologi- 

 cal Summary for 1835 and 1S36, at Kendal, Westmoreland,' and 

 also a ' Notice of a Lunar Rainbow seen in London, on Sunday 

 the 27th of July, 1838.' Mr. AVoods also, after he left London, 

 published a work on ' Education and the Philosophy of the Human 

 Mind ' and a treatise called 'Tabulae Meteorologicse,' which met 

 with great success.' Shortly after his arrival in Bombay he founded, 

 or at all events was the first editor of the ' Bombay Courier,' a 

 paper which for a long time was the leading journal of Western 

 India ; and during his residence in Bombay he was chosen Ho- 

 norary President of the Xative Improvement Society in' that Pre- 

 sidency, and was elected to several other institutions of a similar 

 kind which, under the fostering care Mountstuart Elphinstone, 

 then Governor, flourished in Bombay. Whilst living there in 

 1841 Mr. Woods married, and three years after removed to Sin- 

 gapore. About three years after his arrival he commenced busi- 

 ness in the Supreme Court, and in 1863, after twenty-five years 

 successful practice, was admitted to the bar at Gray's Inn on 

 the 6th of June, 1863. In the interim Mr. Woods had started 

 the ' Straits Times,' first as a weekly, and subsequently as a daily 

 paper in Singapore, and during the stirring events which occurred 

 while owned and edited by him, the ' Straits Times ' enjoyed a high 

 reputation. The first Number of the ' Straits Times ' was pub- 



