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translations of Hagenbach's History of Christian J3octrine, and Heffele's 

 History of the Councils. His last work was an interpretation of Kings- 

 ley's Water Babies, an annotated edition of which he published hardly 

 more than a year before his death, embodying in it the substance of a 

 lecture delivered in public by special request more than one hundred 

 times. 



To do justice to Professor Clark's personal characteristics — his 

 charm of manner, his keen, refined sense of humour, his lovable disposi- 

 tion, and his generosity of heart — were impossible. He was a 

 gentleman of the courtly old school, whom it was a delight to meet, and 

 with whom it was an inspiration and education to converse. 



By the accession of such a man to its ranks. The Ro3^al Society 

 obtained the support of a skilled lecturer and one whose interests were 

 ever in the highest planes of literature and life. When he filled the 

 President's office his personality did much to make the year specially 

 successful, and the meetings of Section II, when he was present, were 

 always interesting, and his contributions to the discussions were most 

 valuable. 



(3). — Dr. Alexander Johnson. 



In the death of Dr. Alexander Johnson The Royal Society has lost 

 one of its original Fellows, one who had been its president, and had taken 

 a prominent and unflagging interest in its work to the very last. This 

 interest, in fact, has a pathetic association with the circumstances of 

 his death. On the 11th of February, last, he had left Montreal to at- 

 tend a meeting of the council of the Society, and had just stepp)ed from 

 the train on to the platform of the station in Ottawa when he showed 

 symptoms of serious illness. Some of the bystanders came to his 

 assistance and carried him to a drug store in the neighbourhood, but 

 by the time medical aid arrived life was found to be extinct. 



The external incidents in Dr. Johnson's life, as in the lives of most 

 academic men, may be very briefly recorded. He was born in Ireland on 

 the first of August, 1830. His higher education was received at Trinity 

 College, Dublin. There in 1852 he won a classical scholarship, but dur- 

 ing his undergraduate course he devoted himself mainly to the mathe- 

 matical sciences. At his examination for the degree of B.A. in 1854 

 he won a gold medal and a Senior Moderatorship. In 1858 he proceeded 

 to the degree of M.A., to that of LL.D. in 1801. At a later period he 

 was honoured with the degree of D.C.L. from Lennoxville, and with 

 that of LL.D., from the Univeisity of New Brunswick. 



But before these higher degrees were added to his academical 

 honours he had been, in 1857, invited to the chair of Mathematics and 



