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XIX. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



OBITUARY.— Dr. Charles Hutton. 

 "P^IED on Monday the 27th of January 1823, at his house in 

 -■-^ Bedford-row, Charles Hutton,LL.D. F.R.S. &c. in the 

 86th year of his age. This venerable character will be remem- 

 bered with gratitude, as long as usefial science is duly appre- 

 ciated ; perhaps no name can be mentioned, either ancient or 

 modern, that has so successfully promoted those branches of 

 mathematical knowledge, most conducive to the practical pur- 

 poses of life, as Dr. Hutton. He has been an eminent author 

 lor upwards of sixty years, and, during forty of that period, 

 he discharged the arduous duty of Professor of Mathematics, 

 at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, with the highest 

 honour to himself and advantage to his country. His im- 

 provements in military tactics have greatly promoted the suc- 

 cess of the British Artillery and Engineers for the last half 

 century, and have even been acknowledged and adopted by 

 several of the first Professors on the Continent. — Morn. Ckron. 



Dr. Jenner. 

 With unfeigned sorrow we have to announce the death of 

 our distinguished countryman, Dr. Jenner, the discoverer of 

 Vaccination. He expired yesterday morning (Sunday, 26th 

 Januai'y), after a veiy short illness, at his house at Berkeley, 

 in the T^th year of his age. An event so awful from its sud- 

 denness, and so impressive and mournful, fi'om the eminent 

 qualities of him who has thus been removed from among us, 

 demands an ampler notice than we now can give ; but we can- 

 not refrain from expressing our ardent hope, that due and 

 ample honour will be paid to the memory of an individual, 

 not less worthy of love for his private virtues, than of esteem 

 and admiration as one of the greatest benetaclors of mankind. 

 — Gloucester Journal. 



ELLIS ON THE EFFECT OF COLD ON THE MAGNETIC NEEDLE. 



In a letter which we have received from Dr. De Sanctis, he 

 expresses his regret that an error into which he had been led 

 relative to Governor Ellis's observations on the effect of cold 

 on the needle, should have given umbrage to that gentleman's 

 relative, whose remarks on the subject appeared in our last 

 volume, p. 199. The mistake complained of, originated in 

 Dr. De Sanctis having read the account, not in the " Voyage 

 to Hudson's Bay," but in an elementary work where it was 

 imperfectly and incorrectly quoted. 



DISCOVERIES IN THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA. 



It is with great pleasure that we have to announce the return 



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