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thoroughly to eiFect the purpose for which he went. He obtained 

 a deep-sea Arctic fauna, and made many other observations which 

 I cannot now so much as name. "With a face radiant with joy, he 

 returned to Cambridge in the October term; and before long 

 some of the fruits of his labours were stored in the Woodwardian 

 Museum." 



In 1857 he went, with Mr, MacAndrew, to the coast of Spain 

 and also to Ireland. In 1858 he became a student of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, but had not been long connected with that body before 

 he was appointed to superintend the Geological Survey of the 

 West Indies, and sailed for Jamaica in March 1859. He worked 

 hard and weU in the survey of the island until the spring of 

 1862, when he returned to England as one of the Commissioners 

 from that colony to the Grreat Exhibition. He remained in 

 England for six months, and was fully occupied during most of 

 that time in studies likely to promote his efB.ciency in his honour- 

 able post, and at the elaboration of the work that he had already 

 done in the colony. He also acted as one of the Secretaries of the 

 Geological Section at the Meeting of the British Association at 

 Cambridge, in October 1862, and attained the kindly opinion of 

 all who then first formed his acquaintance, as he had already done 

 of those who had previously become intimate with him. 



Soon after the Meeting at Cambridge, he returned to Jamaica 

 and recommenced his work. He took with him a diving-apparatus 

 of the most improved construction, in order to examine coral reefs, 

 and was unfortunately drowned whilst using it at the capes out- 

 side Port Eoyal Harbour, on the 19th of December 1862. He 

 had used it successfully on two or three previous occasions in 

 shallower water, having once remained at the bottom of the sea 

 for as much as an hour. There does not appear to have been any 

 defect in the apparatus ; but practical divers say that his deatli 

 was caused by descending too hastily. They go a short way down, 

 and then stop for a time before descending through another 

 short distance to a second stoppage, and so on. A sudden descent 

 into deep water is said by them to render respiration impossible ; 

 by a gradual one the organs are habituated to the pressure. Thus 

 it may be feared that the absence of a practical diver was the real 

 cause of the sad loss which we have sustained by the death of one 

 of the most modest, intelligent, brightest-hearted of men, and as 

 promising a scientific geologist and naturalist as the present day 

 has produced. 



In this Society we knew but little of him. He was elected a 



