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aud at the anniversary of 1810 lie was elected Under-Secretary, 

 an office wliicli he retained for nearly half a century, and in which 

 he earned for himself the cordial esteem and good-will of every 

 member of the Society. In his Diarj^, under date of the anniver- 

 sary of 1849, he notes that he had " served with M^'Leay, Bicheno, 

 Dr. Boott, aud Mr. Bennett, under the successive presidencies of 

 the founder Sir J. E. Smith (the intimate and dear friend of my 

 parents and my warm friend), of the Earl of Derby, the Duke of 

 Somerset, and my excellent friend Dr. Stanley, Bishop of Nor- 

 \^ich." To the names of the Presidents he might subsequently 

 have added those of ]\Ir. Brown and Mr. Bell ; and he must have 

 felt, though he was too modest himself to note it down, how 

 highly he was esteemed by them all for his strict sense of honour, 

 the amiability of his disposition, and his entire devotion to the 

 interests of the Society. 



Among the numerous other learned bodies of which he was a 

 member, the Society of Antiqixaries, the Astronomical Society, 

 and the Philological were those in which he took the deepest 

 interest. He also attached himself from its commencement to- 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science, nearly all 

 the meetings of which, whUe his health permitted, he regularly 

 attended. At these pleasant gatherings of the scientific world, in 

 the society of his numerous friends and of those whose names 

 were most distinguished in science, many of the happiest days of 

 his life were passed. 



In 1822, he joined Dr. Tilloch as editor of the ' Philosophical 

 Magazine,' with which Dr. Thomson's ' Annals of Philosophy ' 

 were subsequently incorporated. In 1838 he estabhshed the 

 ' Annals of Natural History,' and united with it, in 1841, Loudon 

 and Charlesworth's ' Magazine of Natural History.' He subse- 

 quently (at the suggestion and with the assistance of some of the 

 most eminent members of the British Association) issued several 

 volumes of a work intended especially to contain papers of a high 

 order of merit, chiefly translated, under the title of ' Taylor's 

 Scientific Memoii's.' But his own principal literary labours were 

 in the field of biblical and philological research. In 1829 he pre- 

 pared a new edition of Home Tooke's 'Diversions of Purley,' 

 which he enriched with many valuable notes, and which he re- 

 edited in 1840. In the same year (1840), Warton's 'History of 

 English Poetry' ha\ing been placed in his hands by Mr. Tegg, the 

 publisher, he contributed largely, in conjunction with his friends 

 Sir F. Madden, Benjamin Thoi-pe, J. M. Kemble, and others, to 



