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Philip Jones, Esq. Wm.Thos. Lett, Esq., F. T. C. D. 



Edward Barnes, Esq. George Miller, Esq. 



Henry Frekc, M. D. Henry Wilson, M. D. 



Arthur Sidney Ormsby, Esq. Frederick Clarendon, Esq. 

 John C. Egan, M. D. Rev. Matthew Newport, D.D. 



Eaton Hodgkinson, Esq. Charles Ottley, Esq. 



Henry Croly, M. D. O'Neale Segrave, Esq. 



John Grene, Esq. Matthew E. Talbot, Esq. 



Alexander H. Haliday, Esq. Charles Tarrant, Esq. 

 James Hartley, Esq. Rev. J. J. Taylor, D. D, 



We have also to lament the decease in the same period of several 

 very eminent Members of our body. Among them are the follow- 

 ing Honorary Members : 



Nicholas Carlisle, Esq., who died at Margate on the 27th 

 of August, 1847, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. Mr. 

 Carlisle was one of the Secretaries of the Society of Antiquaries, 

 an office which he had filled for a period of more than forty years. 

 He is known by his very valuable works on topography and heraldry. 



Miss Caroline Lucretia Herschel, who died at Hanover, 

 on the 9th of January, 1847, at the very advanced age of 98. Miss 

 Herschel was sister to the celebrated astronomer, Sir William Her- 

 schel. She was born at Hanover, March 16, 1750, and in 1772 

 removed to England to join her brother, who was then at Bath, 

 engaged in the profession of a musician. When he commenced 

 his astronomical pursuits she was his constant assistant, both as a 

 calculator and as an observer, for which duties she subsequently 

 received a salary from the munificence of George HI. She was also 

 engaged in constant labours of her own, made with a small New- 

 tonian telescope, which stood on the lawn of her brother's house, 

 and with which she was in the habit of making regular observations. 

 The following extract from the address of Sir James South, on pre- 

 senting her with the Medal of the Astronomical Society, on the 

 8th of February, 1828, will explain the nature and success of these 

 labours : 



" But her claims to our gratitude end not here ; as an original 

 observer she demands, and I am sure she has, our most unfeigned 

 thanks. Occasionally her immediate attendance during the obser- 



