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The work of John Bellows was no mere recording of 
facts. It was true science, the unifying of particulars 
into laws, the concatenation of details by logical sequence. 
This method was well illustrated by the paper I have 
named last. It works out the lineal descent of our old 
English hostelries and market-houses from the Greek 
Agora and the Roman Basilica, these, in their turn, being 
derived from more ancient structures. Thus the all- 
illuminating law of evolution is found to be as applicable 
in architecture as in biology. 
John Bellows was also distinguished in the field of 
philology. His French and English Pocket Dictionary is 
widely esteemed by travellers. It is a striking example of 
what can be accomplished by the application of scientific 
methods to business, being at once a triumph of typo- 
graphic art, and a model of clear and compact arrangement. 
In 1868, our late Vice-President published an “ English 
Outline Vocabulary for the use of Students of the Chinese, 
Japanese, and other languages.” In the previous year, he 
had produced an “Outline Dictionary for the use of 
Missionaries, Explorers, etc.,” to which was affixed an 
introduction by the late Prof. Max Miller. This colla- 
boration began a friendship which continued during life. 
Mr Bellows was also highly esteemed in the Club for 
his services as a man of business, and for his strong, yet 
attractive, character. With an indomitable firmness of 
principle he combined a most expansive benevolence. His 
philanthropy was world-wide. Armenian and Russian 
peasants, suffering for their principles, were alike the 
objects of his practical sympathy. To transfer a whole 
people from the scene of their persecution to a new land 
of freedom was a task for which he was largely responsible 
as emissary and on behalf of the Society of Friends. In 
connection with such work he travelled widely; and one 
of the secondary results of a journey for philanthropic 
