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servator of the Hunterian Museum ; and on the retirement of Pro- 

 fessor Owen, he was elected to succeed him as curator, and was also, 

 as above stated, named professor of histology — appointments which 

 he held at the time of his death. He was elected into the Linnean 

 Society on the 17th March, 1857 ; and died at Pangboume, in Berk- 

 shire, on the 20th August, 1861, at the early age of 46. 



Thomas Hasivell Quigley, M.D., was a surgeon in the Royal Artil- 

 lery. He was elected into the Society, November 20, 1821, and died 

 June 14, 1861, at his residence, Mount Pleasant Square, Dublin. 



Sir James ClarJc Ross, F.B.S., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., Sfc, was bom in 

 London in the year 1800. In 1812 he was entered as a midship- 

 man on board the ' Briseis,' commanded by his uncle Sir John Ross, 

 the well-known Arctic navigator, and whom he accompanied on his 

 first voyage to the Polar Seas in 1818. Between 1819 and 1827 

 he returned four times to the same regions, imder the orders of Sir 

 Edward Parry, by whom he was highly esteemed as a zealous and 

 efficient officer. In the latter year he was raised to the rank of 

 commander. 



In different voyages to the Arctic Seas, again under the com- 

 mand of his uncle, between 1829 and 1833, the scientific observa- 

 tions were committed principally to his charge, and he was also 

 repeatedly placed at the head of expeditions sent out from the ice- 

 locked ship for the exploration of the surrounding coiintry. In the 

 course of these expeditions he made the discovery of the north 

 magnetic pole in 70° 7' N. and 45° 9' E. In 1834 he attained the 

 rank of captain, and in the following year commanded an expedi- 

 tion in search of several whalers which had been caught in the ice in 

 Baffin's Bay. 



From 1836 to 1838 Sir James Ross was employed by the Admi- 

 ralty in the determination of the points of magnetic deviation and 

 declination in Great Britain and Ireland — labours which have served 

 as the basis upon which were founded the isodynamic lines in 

 the charts published by General Sabine. In 1839 he took the 

 command of a scientific expedition sent out, at the suggestion of 

 the Royal Society, to explore the Antarctic regions. Three times 

 did he endeavour to break through the icy barrier which surrounds 

 the Antarctic pole, but in vain, as he was unable to advance beyond 

 the latitude of 78° 10' S., a limit, however, which has not been 

 since surpassed in that direction, and had not previously been 

 reached. 



In this voyage, also, was discovered the great Antarctic continent 

 of Victoria Land, distinguished by the existence of a volcano 3800 



