464 Royal Society. 



New Method of solving Equations with ease and expedition : 

 by which the true value of the unknown Quantity is found with- 

 out previous reduction. With a Supplement, containing two 

 other Methods of solving Equations, derived from the same prin- 

 ciple. By Theophilus Holdred. 4to. 



Preparing for Publication. 

 Travels in Syria and Mount Sinai ; consisting of, 1 . A Journey 

 firom Aleppo to Damascus. 2. A Tour in the District of Mount 

 Libanus and Antihbanus. 3. A Tour in the Hauran. 4. A se- 

 cond Tour in the Hauran. 5. A Journey from Damascus, through 

 Arabia Petra;a and the Desert El Ty, to Cairo. 6. A Tour in 

 the Peninsula of Mount Sinai. By the late John Lewis Burck- 

 hardt. 



LXXIV. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETV. 



W E have this month the painful task of announcing the sus- 

 pension of the meetings of the Society in consequence of the 

 death of its venerable President Sir Joseph Banks. He departed 

 this life at his house Spring Grove, near Hounslow, on the 19th 

 June. He was in his seventy-seventh year, having been born 13th 

 December 1743. 



Sir Joseph had been long a severe sufferer by the gout, and 

 during the last sixteen years he was carried about, having lost the 

 use of his limbs; but although so far advanced in years and op- 

 pressed by infirmities, he preserved to, the last the same cheerfnl- 

 ness and liberality by which during a long life he was so emi- 

 nently distinguished. 



The loss to science by the demise of this excellent man and 

 liberal patron will be long and severely felt. " His time," to 

 use the words of a contemporary work *, " his wealth, his influ- 

 ence, his talents ; an incomparable library of science and art ; 

 knowledge and judgement to advise ; affability to conciliate and 

 encourage ; generosity to assist ; all in short of which he was 

 possessed, and it was all something either of goodness or great- 

 ness, he made the patrimony of the studious and learned, not of 

 his own country alone, but of the whole world." His' fortune 

 was princely; and besides what he devoted to the encouragement 

 of science, he expended a large portion of it in works of public 

 and private benevolence. 



• Percy Anecdotes of Science. 



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