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Eehmann and Burdach, a periodical work entitled " Eussische 

 Sammlungen fiir Naturwissenschaften und Heilkunst," of wliich 

 two volumes appeared, at Riga and Leipsig, 1815-1818 : and 

 after his return to England, lie published, in the Annals of Philo- 

 sophy, a paper " On the Climate of the Antediluvian World, and 

 its Independence of Solar Influence ; and on the Formation of 

 Grranite " ; and communicated to the Geological Society, memoirs 

 " On some Fossil Shells from Langton Green near Tunbridge- 

 WeUs " ; " On some Vegetable Remains found in the Sandstone 

 which underlies the lowest bed of the Carboniferous Limestone 

 near Ballisadiere, in the county of Sligo, Ireland " ; and " On some 

 parts of the Taunus and other Mountains in the Duchy of Nassau," 

 which are published in the Transactions and Proceedings of that So- 

 ciety. He printed also at St. Petersburg, in 1807, an " Extract of a 

 Letter on a Mammoth preserved in Ice, from Dr. Crichton to Dr. 

 Babington." Sir Alexander Crichton was elected into the Linnean 

 Society in the year 1793, and had consequently been a Fellow for 

 nearly sixty-three years at the time of his death, which took place 

 in June last, in the 93rd year of his age. In the year 1800 he 

 became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and he was also a Fellow 

 of the Geological Society, a Member of the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences at St, Petersburg, and of the Natural History Society 

 of Moscow, a Corresponding Member of tlie Royal Society of 

 Sciences at Gottingen, of the Academy of Medicine at Paris, and 

 of many other societies. In the year 1800, hje married Frances, 

 daughter of Mr. Edward Dodwell, of East Moulsey, who survived 

 him only for about six months, and by whom he has left one son 

 and several daughters. 



The Might Son. William Henry Dawnay, seventh Viscount Downe 

 in the Peerage of Ireland, and a Baronet of England, was born on 

 the 15th of May, 1812, and educated at Christchurch, Oxford, 

 where he graduated as B.A. in 1833, and as M.A. in 1837. He 

 was elected in 1841 one of the representatives of the county of 

 Rutland, and continued to occupy his seat in the House of Com- 

 mons until 1846, when, on the death of his father, he succeeded 

 to the family honours. From this time he occupied himself 

 chiefly in superintending and contributing to a variety of bene- 

 volent objects ; such as founding new chiu-ches, rebuilding those 

 which had fallen into decay, adding to the endowments of poor 

 livings, building parsonages, erecting schools, and improving the 

 comforts of the labourers on his extensive estates by rendering 

 their cottages healthful and commodious. His lordship became a 



